A study published this week found that Canada's devastating 2023 wildfire season – in which toxic smoke blanketed some of the nation's largest cities and affected 100 million Americans – resulted in Canada emitting more greenhouse gases than the rest of the planet except China, India More than any other country except Japan. [emphasis, links added]
Although greenhouse gas emissions increased significantly last year, The government of Canada's left-wing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has largely escaped criticism, especially from left-wing climate activists, for its poor handling of the fires.
Left-wing U.S. President Joe Biden offers uncritical aid to Canadians coping with fires That contrasts with his threats to devastate Brazil's economy through sanctions in response to the 2019 Amazon wildfire season, when the country had a conservative president.
While excessively hot and dry weather plays a role in the 2023 wildfire season, Canadian government agencies are poorly organized in dealing with large-scale fires.
It has no federal emergency agency — the equivalent of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) — nor a national fire agency.
Trudeau has largely failed to organize efforts to properly manage the forest through clearing of highly flammable brush and other measures.
The prime minister bluntly blamed the fires on “climate change” and urged Canadians to “adapt to living with fire.”
The study was published in nature wednesday magazine found The fires produced 647 megatons of carbon emissions, “comparable to the annual fossil fuel emissions of large countries, with only India, China and the United States releasing more annually.”
It's worth noting that fire emissions aren't typically included in studies documenting human-generated greenhouse gas emissions from any given country, so Canada doesn't officially appear at the top of such lists, despite its huge amount of pollution over the past year. . Instead, the fires have become a footnote in such reports.
“Although small compared to the emissions from fossil fuels and transportation, The carbon footprint of this year’s wildfires is unusually large;” The University of Exeter and Stanford University’s Duer Institute for Sustainability noted in their December year-end review, “Analysis of satellite records shows emissions in Canada hit six to eight times the country's 20-year average due to extreme wildfire season. Globally, fires emitted about 6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in the first nine months of this year, 7-9% above average.
this nature The report noted that the 2023 fires occurred during an unusually hot year, but were not unprecedented.
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