What does "the burning off" to prevent bush fires in Australia do to Global Warming?

Question

This happens quite often! The dirty air from it hangs above the country over wide extended areas and is clearly visible with the naked eye.

Answer 1

Nothing, global warming is a myth and they do controlled, massive burns all over the world.

Answer 2

Forestry Tasmania (A puppet of Gunns) calls them re-generation burns.  the problem is after they clear fell they burn and then plant rows of trees ao realistically there is no need to burn other than to make it easy for the planter to put in the trees.  Tassie rainforest's has never burned and some trees found in the highlands live for hundreds of years and don't survive fire so its obviously a crock to believe gunns.  all they want is the easy cheap way to clean up at any environmental and human health cost.

Answer 3

I bet that's how the California wildfires get started every year.

Answer 4

It does contribute to greenhouse gases in the air, but there is no way to avoid it. The whole idea of "controlled burns" is that you burn a little bit of the dead vegetation at a time so that it doesn't build up and lead to massive, uncontrollable fires. The material is either going to burn through controlled burns or naturally through one of the huge fires. Having control over the fire is better for us humans, for obvious reasons.

The burning of dead plant matter itself is an entirely natural process that the ecosystems are built on, though. So it's not really a bad thing in the grand scheme of things. We're just controlling the timing of it a little.

Answer 5

Grassland brushfires and even forest fires are a natural part of the Earth. Many types of plants require the occasional fire to survive. Regular fires help clear off rotting vegetation and clears area for new plants and regeneration.

... and like global climate change, it has been going on for billions of years.

... with and without Chevy Suburbans.

Answer 6

not much. traditional land burning dose cause more carbon to be stored in the soil and some indigenous community's are selling carbon credits to fund land management schemes with government support so i guess that most back burning would achieve similar results.

Answer 7

Sometimes I wish I had the power, money, and influence, or A Gore gone bad. What I can tell you is that bush fires make the air black and it may be an annoyance, but it has nothing to do with global warming.

Do not trust those people who tell you that CO2 has anything to do with global warming, because even though the CO2 levels and temperatures have a correlation; The reason behind this is not what they preach, but the opposite. They will tell you that an increase in CO2 causes an increase in temperature. Actually, it’s an increase in temperature that causes the increase in CO2.

If you study the graph that Gore shows, you’ll see the CO2 levels start to increase approximately 800 years after the temperature levels start to increase. The reasoning is simple and not complicated, as Gore points out. The seas density to air is 20:1 and therefore, the sea water retains latent heat that is built up through a warming period, and its this warming that causes CO2 to rise and has nothing to do with man-made pollution.

Furthermore, CO2 is a minor green house gas. The percentage of it in our atmosphere is approximately .052% and man contribution, is far less than that. The most abundant greenhouse gas in our atmosphere is water vapor.