Opinion: California can't just allow wildfires to run wild [Opinion]
Re “Stop fighting fires” : David von Drehle’s Washington Post article fails to mention that wildfires pour millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which contributes to global warming.
Fire experts have estimated that the wildfires in northern California’s wine country during October 2017into the atmosphere as all of California’s cars and trucks did in one year. According to National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration scientist Pieter Tans, a very large, very hot fire destroying 500,000 acres would emit the same total amount of carbon dioxide as six large coal-fired power plants in one year.Clearly, the proposal to stop fighting fires works against everything we’ve been doing to reduce global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
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