Carbon emissions, public health sure to worsen alongside intensifying fire seasons, experts say
British Columbia’s second-largest single wildfire in recorded history is rapidly gobbling up hundreds of thousands of hectares of forested land in the province’s northeast, but it’s not just the size of the burn that makes fire experts nervous, it’s the extreme temperatures inside of it.
Mr. Gray describes the situation as a rapidly worsening feedback loop, wherein climate change creates hotter, dryer conditions, which spur more severe wildfire seasons, which in turn produce greater amounts of carbon, which then contribute right back into climate change. “It’s voodoo accounting,” Mr. Gray says. Regardless of how natural wildfire emissions are, he adds, their contribution to climate change is threatening.
What all is being released from a forest fire and how it could impact humans isn’t completely known, he says, but there’s far more than wood smoke floating through the air.
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