{"id":70236,"date":"2018-11-16T17:11:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T01:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=70236"},"modified":"2018-11-16T17:48:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T01:48:26","slug":"wildfires-emit-as-much-c02-as-vehicles-do-in-an-entire-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=70236","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires Emit As Much C02 In Weeks As Vehicles Do In An Entire Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandria, VA&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/1981-wildfires-release-cars.html\">Large wildfires in the western United States can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in just a few weeks as cars do in those areas in an entire year, a new study suggests.  As forest fires devour trees and other plants, they release the carbon stored in the vegetation into the atmosphere.  Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of California used satellite observations of fires and a computer model to estimate just how much carbon dioxide is released based on the amount of vegetation that is burned. The results of the study are detailed in the online journal Carbon Balance and Management.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/1981-wildfires-release-cars.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LIVE-SCIENCE.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LIVE-SCIENCE.png 500w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LIVE-SCIENCE-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandria, VA&#8230;Large wildfires in the western United States can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in just a few weeks as cars do in those areas in an entire year, a new study suggests. As forest fires devour trees and other plants, they release the carbon stored in the vegetation into the atmosphere. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-traffic-fire","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/LIVE-SCIENCE.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}