Date uploaded: 2022-10-19 20:54:46
California's catastrophic wildfires in 2020 put twice as much greenhouse gas emissions into the air as the state's reductions in those same gases over nearly 20 years – erasing gains going back to 2003, according to a new study.
Scientists are increasingly realizing greenhouse gases produced by wildfires are a major problem when it comes to climate change.
The problem is not limited to California, experts said. Massive fires have been a growing problem across the West for years. A wildfire burning near the Oregon-Washington border on Tuesday, for example, prompted thousands of evacuation orders.
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