Greenland’s ice is melting, record-setting fires are blazing from the Arctic to the Amazon, and July was the world’s hottest month ever.
, with more than 100 long-lived ones this summer, according to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. Often ignited by burning peat deposits, they released more than 50 megatons of carbon into the atmosphere in June, more than Arctic wildfires released in total over the preceding eight years.
Most severe in Alaska and Siberia, the fires are unusually flaring up in June, ahead of the heart of the wildfire season. "Arctic wildfires are especially worrisome as particulate matter is more likely to settle on icy areas," noted the weather service in a statement."This darkens the ice, leading to sunlight being absorbed rather than reflected, which could exacerbate global warming."Smoke billows during a fire in the Amazon rainforest.
While the world fiddles, the Amazon is burning and Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research is reporting a record ofDeforestation for cattle ranches appears to be a big culprit, and NASA is still takingto declaring the loss a historic one. That’s bad news from a climate change perspective because the Amazon soaks up a lot of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, from the air when it is expanding.
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