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"Just six days in to the northern hemisphere summer of 2023, the skyline in New
York City was stained in a sepia smoke haze.
It was streaming from across the border, where, what became Canada's most
widespread fires in history, were raging.
And the fires did not let up for months.
According to the latest public records, the Canadian wildfires of 2023 have
razed 18.5 million hectares of land to date — nearly triple the previous
record.
But the months of smoke billowing through the vast boreal forests also did
something else.
They released huge quantities of carbon stored in trees and soils into the
atmosphere, which some researchers now estimate to be equivalent to 2.4 billion
tonnes of carbon dioxide.
To put that into perspective, it's three and a half times the annual emissions
for all of Canada's economy, says senior research scientist Werner Kurz who, up
until his recent retirement, led the National Forest Carbon Accounting System
for Canada."
Via
Guardian Australia.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
