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Originally Posted by UncleAl
That single Alaska fire - one fire in one year - was equivalent to burning 270 billion gallons of gasoline. The world's total petroleum consumption was 1.1 million bbl/d in 2005,
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Your post has to be either the height of intellectual dishonesty or a simple error on your part. Naturally I shall assume it is the latter. I imagine even the most brilliant amongst us can make mistakes from time to time.
The area ravaged by the Alaskan fire will, as is the way with forests ravaged by fire, regenerate. Within a couple of decades tree growth will have absorbed from the air an equivalent volume to that produced by the fire. Only if human intervention prevents this regrowth will this not be the case.
All forest fires merely produce a temporary blip in atmospheric carbon dioxide. The global burning of previously sequestered petroleum products delivers a significant long term increase in that level.
