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The role of Amazon fires in the record atmospheric CO₂ growth in 2024

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164 points bikenaga | 1 comments | 27 Sep 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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ck2 ◴[27 Sep 25 18:21 UTC] No.45398220[source]▶
I find it hard to believe anything can top the non-stop burning of natural gas the past two decades from the Bakken fracking fields in North Dakota

Think about how much fuel they waste, tons of CO2 and heating the atmosphere just to get to the oil

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a...

> Today, 29 percent of the natural gas extracted in North Dakota is just burned away. This wasted amount represents enough gas to heat half a million homes

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1. wat10000 ◴[27 Sep 25 21:16 UTC] No.45399371[source]▶
That last sentence should give you an immediate idea of the scale, and that it’s not going to be near the top. Half a million homes is tiny when we’re talking about the entire globe. Thats like one medium-sized city, and just the heating, not any other energy use. It would be nice to capture that energy instead of wasting it, but there are far bigger fish to fry.