• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Yea but the thing about forest fire carbon emissions is that they’re renewable. The burned land will start growing new vegetation almost immediately which is a massive carbon sink. It will return to it’s pre-fire carbon sequestration levels in a few decades.

    Carbon from oil and gas isn’t coming from a recently sequestered source, it’s been in the ground for tens to hundreds of millions of years.

    • Inky@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      If there is a durable increase in forest fire activity then the forests won’t be able to resequester what they held before because there will be less overall forest growth

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      1 year ago

      When a massive fire like this happens carbon is released at a vastly faster rate than it is recaptured again. It will take many years for trees to grow to this size again.