Extreme Forest Fires In Canada Donate 640 Million Metric Ton Carbon Emissions

JAKARTA Canada experienced an emergency situation from May to September last year due to the ongoing fire. This fire occurred in several areas that NASA says are equivalent to the extent of North Dakota. Researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), one of NASA's facilities, observed the impact of carbon disposal from this extreme fire. Based on the findings of scientists, this fire has released 640 million metric tons of carbon. This amount of emissions is equivalent to fossil fuel emissions produced by major industrial countries per year. NASA's research results also show that carbon produced from Canadian fires is much larger than annual fossil fuels in Russia and Japan. "What we found was that the fire emission (from 2023) was larger than anything recorded in Canada," said Brendan, JPL Scientist as well as the Main Author of Canada's Fire Economy Studies. "We want to understand why." According to researchers, Canada experienced successive fires due to its flammable forest conditions. Temperatures in northwestern Canada, a location that produced 61 percent of fire emissions, reached 2.6 degrees Celsius and rainfall below average. This condition makes fires even larger and spread unusually. As a result, 18 million hectares of forests from British Columbia in the west to Quebec were scorched. If the temperatures experienced by Canada continue to occur in the future, major fires will continue to occur.

"Some climate models project that the temperatures we experienced last year will become normal in the 2050s. Warming, coupled with a lack of moisture, is likely to trigger fire activity in the future," explained my son. These fire incidents need to be further observed to prevent serious problems in the future. If major forest fires that occur in Canada become more common, the global climate will be affected as forests that should absorb carbon have disappeared.