More alarmism, demagoguery and disinformation spread by Springer Nature!
The headline is already so ridiculous that it hurts!
"By the time the fire season waned at the end of last month, the blazes had emitted a record 244 megatonnes of carbon dioxide — that’s 35% more than last year, which also set records."
These demagogues like to impress us with big numbers and meaningless one year comparisons! The atmosphere contains about 3,210 gigatonnes of CO2 according to Wikipedia. Thus, 244 megatonnes may well be a phony number and and enormous exaggeration! Let's not forget that CO2 measures only about 400 parts per million and "constitutes about 0.041% by volume of the atmosphere". CO2 is a trace gace!
"It’s a feedback loop: as peatlands release more carbon, global warming increases, which thaws more peat and causes more wildfires ..."
Sounds convincing, but this is not the whole story! This is propaganda!
The Arctic is burning like never before — and that’s bad news for climate change Fires are releasing record levels of carbon dioxide, partly because they are burning ancient peatlands that have been a carbon sink.
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