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Carbon loss from an unprecedented Arctic tundra wildfire

Michelle C. Mack,
M. Syndonia Bret-Harte,
Teresa N. Hollingsworth,
Randi R. Jandt,
Edward A. G. Schuur,
Gaius R. Shaver
& David L. Verbyla

Nature
475,
489–492
(28 July 2011)
doi:10.1038/nature10283

Arctic tundra soils store large amounts of carbon (C) in organic soil layers hundreds to thousands of years old that insulate, and in some cases maintain, permafrost soils. Fire has been largely absent from most of this biome since the early Holocene epoch, but its frequency and extent are increasing, probably in response to climate warming. The effect of fires on the C balance of tundra landscapes, however, remains largely unknown. The Anaktuvuk River fire in 2007 burned 1,039 square kilometres of Alaska’s Arctic slope, making it the largest fire on record for the tundra biome and doubling the cumulative area burned since 1950. Here we report that tundra ecosystems lost 2,016 ± 435 g C m−2 in the fire, an amount two orders of magnitude larger than annual net C exchange in undisturbed tundra. Sixty per cent of this C loss was from soil organic matter, and radiocarbon dating of residual soil layers revealed that the maximum age of soil C lost was 50 years. Scaled to the entire burned area, the fire released approximately 2.1 teragrams of C to the atmosphere, an amount similar in magnitude to the annual net C sink for the entire Arctic tundra biome averaged over the last quarter of the twentieth century. The magnitude of ecosystem C lost by fire, relative to both ecosystem and biome-scale fluxes, demonstrates that a climate-driven increase in tundra fire disturbance may represent a positive feedback, potentially offsetting Arctic greening and influencing the net C balance of the tundra biome.

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climate models = GIGO -> Garbage In, Garbage Out

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The Arctic fire is just more evidence of a warming Arctic, of course the real crap hits the fan when Gigatonnes of Methane are completely released, then, unfortunately nobody will be around to point out the problems of your 'chicken little'.

The scenario is suggested to have happened twice before(200 and 50 million years), apparently so much Methane is released that Global atmospheric concentrations rise to such an extent that Global ignition occurs, annhilating practically everything, but I'm sure extinction level events only happen to other species.

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does this mean the dinosaurs drove V8's ?

perhaps the russians should extract the methane and sell it to europe before its too late.

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All 50 States Saw Record High Temps in July

By Newsroom America Staff at 2 Aug 11:02

(Newsroom America) --Not even Alaska was able to escape the heat wave that blanketed the nation in July, as all 50 states saw record high temperatures last month, the government said.

The U.S. National Climatic Data Center said the record heat affected some 200 million Americans last month, as states saw scorching heat for weeks at a time and a few for the entire month.

The center said preliminary data shows that 2,712 high-temperature records were either tied or broken in July, compared with 1,444 all of last year. At least one weather station in each state saw temperatures that were either records or tied for records.

In Alaska, the temperature at the Northway weather station in Southeast Fairbanks County hit a record 97 F (36.1 C) on July 11.

In the lower 48, the city of Morehead, Minn., was the hottest place on the planet for day, said meteorologist Heidi Cullen of Climate Central, in an interview on National Public Radio. The heat index - a measure of humidity and temperature that indicates how hot the weather feels - in Morehead on July 19 was 134 F (56.7 C), though the National Weather Service later said this could have been an anomaly because the local weather station's location is in a very wet field.

© 2010 Newsroom America.

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