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Re:Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather system... by BurningFrog on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @06:47PM (#27978553)
Burning forests will increase the COâ‚‚ level, but since there is no "local global warming", the effect is diluted over the whole planet, and I'd be very surprised if the feedback effect is at all significant.
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Re:Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather system... by coliveira on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:10PM (#27978711)
Except that is not happening only in the NW. From Australia to Siberia to the Amazon forest, you see the same pattern.
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Re:Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather system... by cryptoz on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:24PM (#27978797)
> since there is no "local global warming"

There is, though. Climate change has different impacts depending on where you are. Some areas are rising in temperature much much faster than others. The arctic is a good example of 'local global warming'.

> I'd be very surprised if the feedback effect is at all significant

Prepare to be surprised. Even if there are 1000 factors each of them only contributing .1% to the total, it is still the case that each one of the 1000 factors is significant.

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Re:Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather system... by Denvercoder9 on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:27PM (#27978817)
You're right that some areas are impacted more by climate change, but that's not correlated with the areas that emit more CO2. In other words: local emissions don't determine local warming.
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Re:Wildfires in Canada are creating their own weather system... by cryptoz on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:33PM (#27978861)
I really don't think that's true, or at least, it's not as clear-cut as you are asserting. There is at least healthy debate about the issue and it is definitely not a closed case of "local emissions don't determine local warming". As far as I can tell, local emissions do relate to increased local warming. Here's a source https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-carbon-dioxid...
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