Huge Arctic fire hints at new climate cue

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14306781

An exceptional wildfire in northern Alaska in 2007 put as much carbon into the air as the entire Arctic tundra absorbs in a year, scientists say.

The Anaktuvuk River fire burned across more than 1,000 sq km (400 sq miles), doubling the extent of Alaskan tundra visited by fire since 1950.

With the Arctic warming fast, the team suggests in the journal Nature that fires could become more common.

If that happens, it could create a new climate feedback, they say.

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1. Don't worry! I read about a new pilot project for a proposed clean coal plant just the other day!

Once it's built, which will be sometime in 2016 or 2017, it'll safely lock away hundreds of tons of carbon every year, if the technology pans out.

Oh, and if the utility company talking about building it gets a big juicy tax break for doing so!

[pscot]

2. How many tons of money

are required to absorb one ton of CO2? That would make an innteresting grant proposal.

[DCKit]

3. Totally depends on the denomination of the bills, I'm sure.

But you wouldn't expect any energy company to deal in anything smaller than $100.

[Nihil]

4. Don't forget to deduct ...

... the loss of carbon storage from the deforestation to produce the
paper for that stack of bills or the wood for all of the pallets to
transport them!

"Carbon Capture & Sequestration" is probably the biggest fraud on this
planet after Wall Street and organised religion. (Yes, even more than
US nuclear power and that's saying something!)