Canada's wildfires have had a big impact on the region -- but not equivalent to 100 years worth of global carbon output, as some claim on social media
that contain particles harmful to people sensitive to pollution, experts say the comparison made in the posts is inaccurate.
"There is in no way that the Canadian fire emissions would be comparable to the fossil emissions since industry evolution," , principal scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told AFP."Even if the whole boreal forest were to be burned, it is not comparable to the fossil emissions during the last 100 years.
"The current fire emissions from Canada for the year-to-date total is approximately 170 megatonnes of carbon ," he said on June 30 -- a record amount for the region in recent years. But he noted that is still about 61 times less than global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels in 2021 alone.
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