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Non-deforestation fire vs. fossil fuel combustion: the source of CO2 emissions affects the global carbon cycle and climate responses

Non-deforestation fire – i.e., fire that is typically followed by the recovery of natural vegetation – is arguably the most influential disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems, thereby playing a major role in carbon exchanges and affecting many climatic processes. The radiative effect from a given atmospheric CO2 perturbation is the same for fire and fossil fuel combustion. However, major differe...

Interactive comment on “ Fire vs . fossil fuel : all CO 2 emissions are not created equal

The manuscript by Landry and Matthews documents how CO2 emissions generated from global wildfires differ from those generated by fossil fuel combustion in terms of atmospheric fraction and temperature. The authors use a coupled model to assess this, and also show temperature effects from altered land surface albedo. There are some potentially interesting and useful results, including the net vs...

Fire vs . fossil fuel combustion : the source of CO 2 emissions affects the global carbon cycle and climate responses

Global combustion: the connection between fossil fuel and biomass burning emissions (1997-2010).

Humans use combustion for heating and cooking, managing lands, and, more recently, for fuelling the industrial economy. As a shift to fossil-fuel-based energy occurs, we expect that anthropogenic biomass burning in open landscapes will decline as it becomes less fundamental to energy acquisition and livelihoods. Using global data on both fossil fuel and biomass burning emissions, we tested this...