Posted on 07/26/2024 11:17:30 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Earth’s land lost much of their ability to absorb the carbon dioxide humans pumped into the air last year, according to a new study that is causing concern among climate scientists that a crucial damper on climate change underwent an unprecedented deterioration.
Temperatures in 2023 were so high — and the droughts and wildfires that came with them were so severe — that forests in various parts of the world wilted and burned enough to have degraded the ability of the land to lock away carbon dioxide and act as a check on global warming, the study said.
The scientists behind the research, which focuses on 2023, caution that their findings are preliminary. But the work represents a disturbing data point — one that, if it turns into a trend, spells trouble for the planet and the people on it.
“We have to be, of course, careful because it’s just one year,” said Philippe Ciais, a scientist at France’s Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences who co-authored the new research.
But the results, he added, are still “worrying.” If extreme warming continues, society risks losing “the best friend of humanity” in Earth’s land.
Earth’s continents act as what is known as a carbon sink. The carbon dioxide that humans emit through activities such as burning fossil fuels and making cement encourages the growth of plants, which in turn absorb a portion of those greenhouse gases and lock them in wood and soil. Without this help from forests, climate change would be worse than what is already occurring.
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Wow, it must be true if it’s in The Washington Post. /s
Technically, warm weather does start a lot of the fires out west.
Heat lightning strikes happen all over the western US. The difference is when lightning strikes the timberland of a private landowner they send up their helicopter and spot he fires. They they drop off their own private crews to put the fires out before they get too big.
If the same lightning strikes BLM or US Forest Service land they have a meeting to decide IF they should put the fire out. Many times this allows a small fire to grow into hundreds of thousands of acres before they try to put it out.
They other major difference is that the private timber companies routinely go out a thin the underbrush and dead/dying timber on the properties. They do this because dead wood is more likely to start on fire than green standing timber.
It all comes down to the fact that the timber company has a vested interest in not seeing their assets(the trees) burn down. It cost them money. With government lands it is other peoples money. Who cares. Until it burns YOUR house down.
I burn leaves and lawn trash because plants need CO2.
I guess we could all stop exhaling.
Philippe Ciais could show us how.
So plant more in better places. Only trying to save the planet.
What a load of BS.
weren’t most of the wildfires found to be arson ?
exactly, I will know these idiots are serious when they start calling on China, India, S. America, and Africa to do something and not just the US.
Yup, climate change is making whackos go arsonist and start wildfires. We can’t do anything about the whackos so we must mess with Mother Nature.
If they are discussing the current Wild Fire in Northern California this winter it had more then usual rain fall. It is most likely not allowing lumber jacks thinning the forest and doing pre-burns of grass lands. IMHO. The Indians used to burn the grasslands every late summer and fall to thin it out.
Dear green liars....🖕
no mention of illegals invaders living in them and starting fires or the eco nazis
A representative from The Stupid Party should ask the following: “As a per cent, what was the CO2 content of the Earth’s atmosphere in 2022, 2023, and today?”
“We want to see three numbers. Show me the numbers or admit you people are liars.”
Global warming propaganda:
1. Forrest fires have always been a part of American summers, but they’re now moving every brush fire onto the front pages of the news.
2. And how about the climate-cause and homeless arson reported on FR over the last decade?
It’s not overkill. The masses are stupid. Even Republicans, aka, The stupid Party. Everyone is screaming, “DEMOCRACY.” These jerks should recite and think about the words in the Pledge. Obama thinks we have 57 states. Ther’s a guy in Congress who thinks Guam will capsize. We are a nation of thoughtless, mindless numbskulls… incapable of rational thought and lack critical thinking skills and common sense.
Yup. And The Stupid Party hasn’t figured that one yet either. Just show a single photo of Mr. St. Helens and ask the question. Show a single photo of smog in China and a river clogged with pollution in India. That would be too easy. Better to throw away $trillions on a hoax.
Ummm… the Earth is cooling down. It was a molten sphere of lava at one time.
tax everyone in the USA at 99%, it’s the only way to save the world.
There is still a very (white) hot core. You can measure the temperature with a thermometer on a hocky stick./!/s
You forgot peer review (friends helping). The vast majority of scientists agree.
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