The pandemic slashed the West Coast’s emissions. Wildfires already reversed it.
Published Date: 7/27/2021
Source: technologyreview.com
Wildfires raging across the US West Coast have filled the air with enough carbon dioxide to wipe out more than half of the region’s pandemic-driven emissions reductions last year. And that was just in July. The numbers illustrate a troubling feedback loop. Climate change creates hotter, drier conditions that fuel increasingly frequent and devastating fires—which,…