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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.

[–] Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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