Canada's hellish wildfire season accelerates into overtime

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'This is going to go until we have deep snow.'

With hundreds of wildfires still burning, there is the potential for more air quality degradation in the U.S. through the fall.In addition, the fires have emitted at least as much carbon and other greenhouse gases to be on par with Canada's typical annual emissions.

Given that climate change played a key role in setting off this conflagration, the emissions will only serve to worsen global warming, thereby making parts of the globe even more prone to fire in a positive feedback loop."Climate change is playing a major role," Flannigan said, noting the presence of sprawling and intense high pressure areas — also known as heat domes — that elevated temperatures, caused relative humidity to plummet and turned forests into tinderboxes.

The emissions estimates to date lack an accounting of emissions from smoldering taking place near ground level, and in the boreal forests in northern Canada, in the organic layers of peat and moss,According to Turetsky, it won't be until field researchers can explore affected areas that the fire season's true costs in carbon emissions are more fully accounted for.

Some of the organic material on the ground and just under the surface contains carbon that was stored there as many as thousands of years ago.

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