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Indonesian fires are pouring huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere

2015-10-21 15:10:46| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Washington Post: Last week, I noted a staggering statistic: Raging fires in Indonesia -- the result of both this years El Nino event and the clearing of forests and draining of peatlands -- have apparently given off as much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere as Germany does in a year by burning fossil fuels. The key reason is that about half of the fires are burning on carbon packed peatlands. Taken together, the impact of peat fires on global warming may be more than 200 times greater than fires on other lands,...

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