A post on Instagram has claimed that the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere during the wildfires in Canada exceeds the volume produced by humans in the last 100 years.
“You can TRY all that electric car, solar power, zero emissions BS all you want but the facts remain: When Mother Nature is done with us, WE’LL KNOW IT,” the caption reads.
The post has over 6,500 likes on Instagram. A similar version was also found on Facebook.
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WILDFIRE IN CANADA
Since May, several wildfires have been recorded in Canada, with huge smoke extending into parts of the US. By the month of June, Canada had recorded more than 400 wildfires, burning simultaneously across the nation, and over half of it was clearly out of control.
The fire disaster across western Canada drove thousands of residents from their homes. Also, it forcefully led to the suspension of production by oil and gas companies.
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The magnitude of the fire led to the contamination of the air which enveloped several provinces in the country including the Great Lakes region and some northeastern parts of the US.
The US environmental protection agency reported that over 100 million people were affected by air quality alerts in areas including Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Syracuse, Bethlehem, and New York.
COMPARING CO2 FROM 2023 WILDFIRES AND THE LAST 100 YEARS
Experts do not agree with the claim that carbon emissions from wildfires are much more than what the human race has produced in the last century. In fact, they believe that they are largely incomparable.
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No significant spike in atmospheric CO2 for the year 2023 so far.
TheCable looked into the Keeling Curve, a daily record of global atmospheric CO2 concentration, by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California. A study of the graph clearly shows no significant spike in atmospheric CO2 for the year 2023 so far.
