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Wildfires are erasing California's climate gains, research shows
New analysis finds single year of wildfire emissions is close to double emissions reductions achieved over 16 years
In fact, the analysis— published in the October edition of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Pollution— showed that the increase in emissions in a single year is about two times the reductions achieved from 2003 to 2019. “To the great credit of California’s policy-makers and residents, from 2003 to 2019, California’s GHG emissions declined by 65 million metric tons of pollutants, a 13 percent drop that was largely driven by reductions from the electric power generation sector,” said Michael Jerrett, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health professor of environmental health sciences and an author of the study. While some of the carbon release from fires will be balanced by later vegetation regrowth, it will not occur quickly enough to avert highly dangerous levels of increased emissions, temperatures, and climate change, the researchers said.
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