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• Depress_Mode@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Perhaps in the short term regarding albedo. Once the smoke dissipates soon though, it’ll be back to “normal”, except with a large boost in CO2 levels. Anyone who’s dealt with heavy wildfire smoke knows the smoke traps heat under it like a big blanket, too. For millions of years, wildfires were the largest contributors of CO2 released into the atmosphere.

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  • Jumper775@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wildfires are actually an important part of a forests life cycle, and they have always been around. They kill off massive swaths of old forest allowing new forest to grow, and diversifying the environment. They have been around since the forests have been, and there is a reason why they are not cited as one of the many things that is so bad for the environment. It is because they are necessary. The native Americans used to do controlled burns which would allow us to coexist with the forest fires without damaging either life form. We Americans, however, killed the vast majority of them so we could take this land. This is why it has gotten so out of hand today.

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    • Depress_Mode@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, this is all correct. It was my intention to differentiate the extreme hell-blazes we often see today that completely destroy forests (soil and all) from the much healthier fires that merely thin them. Fires are important, but because of gross forest mismanagement, now for forests to undergo their natural burn cycle is to completely burn to a crisp.

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• Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s like the earth is a living entity trying to kill of the virus infecting it. We as humans don’t really think about it, but earth will win, it’s just a matter of time. No matter how bad we fuck up the earth, it’ll heal after we die off.

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  • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or it won’t heal and just be another barren rock like the others in this system. And even then, the planet still won’t care.

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    • Yendor@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah. Humans aren’t remotely that powerful. We could detonate every nuke on the planet tomorrow and make human life impossible, but in 1000 years the conditions for life would be fine, just the large animals would be extinct. In 1 million years you wouldn’t even know it had happened u less you dug I to the geological record. And 1 million years is like the blink of an eye on the timescale of a planet.

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  • Wolfwood1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is that you Agent Smith?

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• yukichigai@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Noooooooooope, don't fall for it. I've seen the finale of Dinosaurs, I know how this ends.

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• h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  F

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• girlfreddy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That was one of the craziest things I’ve read in a while.

  I mean who knew??

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As much as I wanna laugh at this meme, I’m pretty sure the vast number of wildfires going on lately are partly why worldwide temperatures have been higher than average. The sun isn’t the only source of heat…

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