{"id":1801,"date":"2020-09-04T14:38:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iccinet.org\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2022-07-12T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T15:21:57","slug":"2020-arctic-fires-already-one-third-higher-than-2019-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/2020-arctic-fires-already-one-third-higher-than-2019-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Arctic Fires Already One-third Higher Than 2019 Record High"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, September 3<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<div>Arctic fire emissions \u2013 those directly caused by humans, as well as those from natural phenomena such as lightning strikes \u2013 already are one-third higher than the 2019 total, which itself broke the previous record.\u00a0 The CO2 released from these fires through the end of August totalled around 244 megatonnes, about as much as Malaysia emits in a year, or one-third the reported annual emissions of Canada.\u00a0 Scientists from Copernicus, which conducted the monitoring speculate that some of this fire growth has arisen from so-called \u201czombie fires,\u201d peatlands and former permafrost that continue to burn beneath the surface throughout the winter months; as well as warmer and drier conditions that allow human-set agricultural fires, and natural wildfires to spread.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/atmosphere.copernicus.eu\/copernicus-reveals-summer-2020s-arctic-wildfires-set-new-emission-records\">https:\/\/atmosphere.copernicus.eu\/copernicus-reveals-summer-2020s-arctic-wildfires-set-new-emission-records<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Compiled by Amy Imdieke.<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, September 3 Arctic fire emissions \u2013 those directly caused by humans, as well as those from natural phenomena such as lightning strikes \u2013 already are one-third higher than the 2019 total, which itself broke the previous record.\u00a0 The CO2 released from these fires through the end of August totalled around 244 [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,9],"tags":[13,33,11,35,12],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryosphere-capsules","category-latest-research","tag-arctic","tag-climate-change","tag-fires","tag-warming","tag-wildfires"],"modified_by":"Pam Pearson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iccinet.org\/sv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}