What do you think about the 3 tons of global warming gas CA fires spewed?

Question

Article in the Yahoo News front page.

Trees are what convert carbon dioxide to oxygen. So? How do we prevent forest fires.

In the case of CA fires it was about a person setting fires. And also, http://www.kimclement.com prophesied about this before it happened. So? I see that God gave the devil permission to do this. And it has global affects.

What the devil meant for destruction, God turns for good.

I meant according to the news title...tons of global... not ...3 tons....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_on_sc/global_warming_wildfires

Answer 1

As has been said earlier, trees absorb CO2 as they grow and when they die they release it again, all that a tree is doing is temporarily storing the carbon. However, during it's period of most growth a tree in southern CA will typically remove 10 to 20kg (20 to 40 pounds) more CO2 from the atmopshere each year than it releases when it dies.

Because a lot of the trees that were burned were mature trees they wouldn't be removing much CO2 from the atmosphere. Now that they've gone and new trees can grow in their place the overall and long-term effect will be a good one.

Here's the Yahoo news article you mentioned - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_on_sc/global_warming_wildfires_1;_ylt=AspzQOYoZwlA5yThLt43OxYro0wB The total amount of carbon dioxide from the fires is put at 8.7 million tons, it's about the same amount that a large town would produce in a year.

Answer 2

All the CO2 released came from the air in the first place, so a forest fire has no net long term effect on global warming. Trees take CO2, make wood with the carbon and release oxygen as a waste product. But when the tree dies and the wood decays, all that CO2 ends up back in the air. The same when the tree burns. By the way, those fires are more brush and grass fires. There aren't many trees in that area.

Answer 3

The emissions were most likely a lot more than 3 tons.
Those that work closely with air pollution will understand this: AP-42 emissions factor (wood in residential fireplaces, I knwo it's not the best but it's close) is 229 lbsVOC /ton wood and 252 lbs CO/ton wood burned....

But that's not the point. It still doesn't matter. This is a natural cycle. Global warming is a natural cycle. Antrhropogenic sources are nearly insignificant in comparison to natural causes of greenhouse gases.

Answer 4

carbon dioxide and monoxide are the main causes of the global warming CO2 is produced by cars factories burning stuff Etc. but CO2 is not always a problem for example if the world has a lots of plants CO2 would not be a problem but because of humans lots of plants are gone Carbon monoxide is produced also in cars and if you lighted a candle and putted a jar on it it will produce CO witch is toxic

Answer 5

Global warming caused the drought that caused the fire. Learn about what you can do to help mitigate the climate crisis before the problem gets worse.

www.climateprotect.org

Answer 6

the fires in SoCal were started by a little boy playing with matches.

he's going to feel really bad when he gets older and fully understands what he did

Answer 7

Godly devotion is good, and definitely necessary, but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.

Godly devotion requires that we preach and try and appeal the message to as many as possible, and arbitrary exaggeration of God's works will only make the message look fake.

Answer 8

Time for California to buy some of those carbon credits from Al Gore and all will be forgiven.

Answer 9

IM NOT A SCIENTIST BUT I DO HAVE A PERFECT 100% IN MY ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE CLASS SO CARBON DIOXIDE AND OXIGEN COMBINE TOGETHERE AND THATS THE AIR WE BRETH THE FIRES ARE BAD N R CASING GLOBAL WARMING

Answer 10

Whoa.