Wildfires

I Believe · Oct 31, 2023 · 10m

If we’re serious about reducing carbon emissions, we need to address a significant source of emissions: wildfires.What do we think causes more carbon emissions, thinning trees from the wilderness landscape or letting them burn?Wilderness fires release significant carbon emissions. Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Chicago analyzed greenhouse gas emissions from just California wildfires in 2020. They found California's wildfires that year ranked as the state's second-leading source of carbon emissions, thereby counteracting the progress made…