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Climate scientists too worried about bushfires

China Daily | Updated: 2009-02-27 07:42

Climate scientists too worried about bushfires

Bushfires that have scorched Australia's Victoria state released millions of tons of carbon dioxide and forest fires could become a growing source of carbon pollution as the planet warms, a top scientist said yesterday.

Mark Adams of the University of Sydney said global warming could trigger a vicious cycle in which forests could stop becoming sinks of CO2, further accelerating the rise of the planet-warming gas in the atmosphere.

"With increasing concerns about rising CO2, rising temperatures and reduced rainfall in many of the forested areas, then we could well see much greater emissions from forest fires," Adams, dean of the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, said.

Climate scientists too worried about bushfires

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