Wildfires Could Flip Amazon from Carbon Sponge to Carbon Source

Climate change and deforestation could lead to a more wildfires in the Amazon rain forest. The wildfires could burn up to the 16% of the wild forest. The effects of this could reduce the forest's ability to soak up carbon emissions. Instead, it might become a source of carbon emissions. Combustion from the trees and underbrush release carbon dioxide, and methane and other harmful gases could be released. Even if global emissions were to go down, the already ever-shifting climate will still cause a large number of wildfires. The only way to truly decrease the wildfires would be lessening deforestation.

Hey guys here's an idea maybe like don't cut down so many trees? I'm not saying a full scale shut down of chopping down trees, but maybe just a slight cut back. Enough to not cause one of the places that absorbs the harmful gasses in the air into the opposite, a releasing point for the gasses. If we can find some healthy middle ground of cutting back both emissions and deforestation, then the Amazon will be safe for at least a few years.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/wildfires-could-flip-parts-amazon-carbon-sponge-source-2050

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  1. chrheaFebruary 3, 2020 at 1:56 PM

    This is probably the more important part of the fires' impact than what was being argued earlier this school year on our blog. I'm not worried about lack of oxygen at all. I'm worried about increase of carbon in the atmosphere when all of that carbon used to be stored in a tree.

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 5, 2020 at 9:34 AM

    Aaron I think your advice is the most insightful thing I have ever heard. I agree that we should stop cutting down so many trees and help the environment.

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