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As of June 14, 5.4 million ha have burned, which translates into 765 Mt of CO2 equivalent. This is larger than total GHG emissions in any year in Canada's inventory (peak 2007 at 748 Mt) (www.cbc.ca)

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[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years 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.