Australia's bushfires have been so devastating, the country's forests may not be able to reabsorb the toxic carbon dioxide produced by the blazes, climate scientists say.At least 2.
However, experts fear the sheer scale and intensity of this year's unprecedented fires, coupled with worsening drought conditions, has disrupted this recovery process. "In a stable climate it's like a bank account, where a fire comes along and burns some forest and releases carbon," he said.
The fire season is 12 days old and the recovery process after the fires has already been disrupted! 2.7 million hectares of bush probably needs a little more than 12 days to perform it's natural regrowth and by nature the climate is going to change as it always does! guilttrip.
With the thousands of bushfires in Australia over the centuries where is there any evidence of any tree/s (unless dead) losing their ability to reabsorb CO2? Junk science at it worst.
ABC sinking to new lows ...
That would explain why Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park is a desolate wasteland after the 1994 bushfires saw gum trees literally exploding from the intense heat. Oh wait...
Central argument is correct - more carbon was released into the atmosphere than regrowth will absorb AKA 'sink' during droughts. But please take care with your choice of words; RWNJs & anti-science conspiracists hyperventilate over poor choices like 'toxic CO2'.
The article contains at least 3 blatant lies, CO2 is not a toxin to plants, charcoal from fires actually accumulates in soil as it lasts longer than wood which fungi turnover into CO2 in a shorter time span & the total mass of forests is rising worldwide due to higher CO2 levels.
ABC viewers are digesting this pseudoscience sludge! Thank goodness ABC ratings are low.
Has there never been a bushfire before?
Oh please..
“Toxic carbon dioxide” - seriously? The ABC seems to think we’re all idiots. But fits the alarmist propaganda tone.
There is no such thing as a 'stable climate'.
The sky is falling
More scaremongering from the leftist cult at the ABC. Please reference a forest that hasn’t regrown? Nothing burned hotter than the 2009 Victorian fires and they grew back..
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