Record-breaking wildfires released twice the amount of emissions that California cut between 2003 and 2019, though unlike fossil-fuel emissions, they can eventually be reabsorbed by vegetation
Carbon pollution from California’s 2020 wildfires erased 16 years of the state’s greenhouse gas emission cuts, according to a new UCLA study.
The Golden State sees itself as the nation’s leader in climate policy, launching a series of programs and regulations to cut emissions. That includes requirements that the electrical sector use only carbon-free energy by 2045 and car makers sell only zero-emission vehicles by 2035. The state also runs a carbon cap-and-trade market that forces large businesses to cut emissions or buy environmental permits for their pollution.
Researchers had predicted that climate change would bring wildfires twice as destructive as the historical average within 30 years. The 2020 wildfires made that prophecy come true decades early . While fossil fuel emissions stay in the atmosphere for thousands of years, most wildfire emissions are eventually reabsorbed by vegetation growth somewhere on the globe, said Michael Wara, director of Stanford University’s climate and energy program.
To calculate the wildfire emissions, the UCLA researchers used data from two satellites and CARB. They used CARB data for the state’s emissions cuts.
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