Re: Ping Myal:

myal wrote:


Would regular low intensity burning have differing effect on the greenhouse gasses produced as iregular natural high intensity burns tho ? 

Don't know to be exact.

I think the natural base load of CO2, etc emissions would have been the same yearly (long term) average whether it burnt intensely (and long time to next burn) or burn slighlty each year. But, these would have been started by natural factors, e.g. lightning, decomposition, etc.

The problems with humans is that they light fires more frequently on top of the naturally occurring fires. So human lit fires are EXTRA fires.

So things like CO2 get taken from the biosphere to the atmosphere quicker.
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