One 400 square mile (huge) tundra fire in Russia equals one year of Natural Carbon Sequestration for All of the Arctic

By Bruce Melton PEAugust 7, 2011February 2nd, 2013

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110727131407.htm

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/29/us-tundra-fire-study-idUSTRE76S5VY20110729?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29

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Remember, average global warming over land is double the global average because of the cooling influence of our oceans and ice sheets, or 3.56 degrees C in December (6.4 F). and the average over the arctic is four times the global average or 7.12 C (12.8 F). Importantly, the increase in extreme temperature is far greater than the average, and extreme weather increases nonlinearly because of the basics of heat and energy physics, where a little warming does not create a little more extremeness in the weather, it creates a lot more.

One 400 square mile (huge) tundra fire in Russia equals one year of Natural Carbon Sequestration for All of the Arctic

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