B.C. wildfires contribute to record-smashing greenhouse gas emissions
Wildfires in British Columbia have already contributed to a record-setting increase in carbon emissions from wildfires alone while contributing to another likely, but yet-to-be confirmed record for Canada.
“This is already more than double the previous record for the year as a whole and represents over 25 per cent of the global total for 2023 to date,” it reads. Of the 290 megatonnes, just under 40 megatonnes came from British Columbia, which places B.C. behind the Northwest Territories with about 55 megatonnes and Quebec with about 70 megatonnes, according to social media posts from Mark Parrington, senior scientist with Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service,
If warm and dry weather has created conditions conducive to the record-breaking scale of the 2023 wildfires in Canada, climate change is making such conditions more likely in increasing the chance of a longer fire season, CAMS notes.These figures from a European source follow domestic reporting that shows Canada is set to smash its total emission records because of wildfires.
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