Arctic Wildfires 🔥 and Peat Fires 🔥 Darken Arctic and Emit more Carbon than MANY Countries 4,204 views
Paul Beckwith
Published on Jul 30, 2019
Another HUGE feedback darkening the Arctic and releasing literally tons of Greenhouse Gases are the crazy number of intense, hot, long-burning wildfires in the Arctic that have been decimating boreal forests, and even worse, igniting peat fires. Peat is normally very wet (95% water content), acting as a block to wildfires. However unprecedented Arctic warming this June/July has desiccated (dried out) many peat regions; the resulting compressed spaghnum high in carbon is igniting from wildfires and lightning strikes. Peat fires are bad news; able to burn deep into the ground, and last for weeks, months, and even years.
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