Carbon emissions from this year’s wildfires burning in the Arctic Circle have already outstripped 2019’s record.
Arctic wildfires emit 35% more CO2 so far in 2020 than for whole of 2019 About 205 megatonnes emitted in June and July alone as Siberia hit by heatwave The Guardian, 31 August, 2020 The amount of carbon dioxide emitted by Arctic wildfires this year is already 35% higher than the figure for the whole of 2019. The latest data, provided by the EU’s Copernicus atmosphere monitoring service, shows that up to 24 August 245 megatonnes of CO2 had been…