Carbon emissions, public health sure to worsen alongside intensifying fire seasons, experts say
British Columbia’s second-largest single wildfire in recorded history is rapidly gobbling up hundreds of thousands of hectares of forested land in the province’s northeast, but it’s not just the size of the burn that makes fire experts nervous, it’s the extreme temperatures inside of it.
Although wildfire scientists say a certain amount of burning is vital to reducing dangerous fuel loads and promoting regrowth, this extreme level of carbon release is unsustainable and increasingly a problem as climate change progresses and fire seasons intensify. The gravity of the issue is fairly new. For as far back as we know, forests have successfully self-regulated carbon emissions, with the amount released from wildfires balanced out by the plant life spurred in subsequent years. However, Canada’s forests haven’t absorbed as much as they’ve released for several decades now, according to the country’s annual greenhouse-gas inventory reports.
“It’s voodoo accounting,” Mr. Gray says. Regardless of how natural wildfire emissions are, he adds, their contribution to climate change is threatening.
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