Researchers Predict Near-Record Annual Increase in Atmospheric CO2 – The Energy Mix
So far, the bushfires have likely doubled Australia’s annual
greenhouse gas emissions and pushed 900 million tonnes of carbon into
the atmosphere, scientists at the Global Fire Emissions Database
concluded in a separate study. “That compares with 532 million tons of
emissions from Australia for the year through June and about 918 million
tons that the International Council on Clean Transportation counted
from commercial aircraft worldwide in 2018,” Bloomberg reports, in a post republished by the San Francisco Chronicle.