Wildfire smoke equals a year of power pollutionBy A Phome/News/World/At a Glance/Wildfire smoke equals a year of power pollutionSAN FRANCISCO: Wildfires in California in 2018 released the rough equivalent of about 68 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide — about the same amount of carbon emissions as are produced in a year to provide electricity to the state, US Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Friday. The carbon dioxide figure — based on data analyzed by the US Geological Survey — is more than 15 percent of all emissions produced by California in a year, according to Zinke. This year included California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire — a blaze in November that took out nearly 14,000 homes in a rural Northern California county and killed at least 88 people. Another fire that started the same day in Southern California killed three people and destroyed 1,500 structures, including the homes of celebrities in tony Malibu.

Source: Manila Times December 01, 2018 16:18 UTC