CAMS - Indonesian Land/Forest Fires Released 708 Million Tons Of Carbon - 2X Amazon Fires Output
Fires from land and forest fires across Indonesia this year have pumped at least 708 million tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — almost double the emissions from the fires that swept through the Brazilian Amazon this year.
That was the finding from researchers at the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS), who noted that the Indonesian fires were one of the most intense in nearly two decades, unleashing far more than the 366 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) churned out by the higher-profile fires in the Brazilian Amazon. “What has stood out with the recent fires in Indonesia is how high the daily total fire intensity and estimated emissions [are] than the average of the previous 16 years,” Mark Parrington, a senior scientist at the CMAS who studies emissions from wildfires, told Mongabay.
Exacerbated by drier-than-usual weather patterns, this year’s fires have been the most severe since those in 2015, when 26,000 square kilometers (10,000 square miles) of land across Indonesia was razed. The fires back then cause an estimated $16 billion in economic losses, and the smoke they generated sickened half a million people.
But while greenhouse gas emissions from the 2015 fires were much higher — estimated at 1,385 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) — emissions this September were comparable to four years earlier: 420 million tons of CO2e, compared to 478 million tons in September 2015.
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