The carbon emissions from forest fires in Australia are similar to the emissions of Amazon forest fires

Carbon emissions from forest fires raging in Australia are on par with the carbon emissions caused by the Amazon rainforest fire disaster last year.

According to the European Union's Atmospheric Monitoring Service (EU), Australia's forest fires, which lasted from September 2019 to January 6, released about 370 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions . While wildfires in the Brazilian states of the Amazon basin have emitted 392 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions between January 1 and November 15, 2019.

Fire smoke rises from a forest fire in Victoria, Australia.(Photo: THX / TTXVN).

Lecturer of environmental science at Murdoch University in Perth, Joe Fontaine, said that people cannot fully appreciate the consequences of carbon. Up to now, 27 people have been killed, thousands of people have lost their homes and evacuated many times due to "fire invaders" that continue to attack and burn large areas of Australia, especially in the eastern region. Male.

Most scientists believe that forest fires are exacerbated in part by drought related to climate change across the country that lasted for the past three years. A member of the United Nations Environment Program in Thailand, Adam Hodge asserts that global warming is making extreme weather events such as drought, heat waves and wildfires more intense.

According to Adam, wildfires are a normal phenomenon, considered a part of the natural cycle in Australia, but according to calculations by the scientists the scale of the current wildfire may be the worst in the calendar. history."These are the consequences we are seeing in a world that has warmed 1.1 degrees Celsius compared to the pre-industrial average," said Mr. Adam Hodge .

According to Adam Hodge, Australia "contributes" 1.3% of global carbon dioxide emissions but the average per capita emissions are second in the world after the US. Brazil is the 7th largest country with greenhouse gas emissions in the world. Addressing climate change will help prevent disasters like recent fires. However, scientists believe that countries in the world so far have not made enough efforts to fight climate change.

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