<story><title>Indonesia&apos;s palm oil fires emitted more greenhouse gases in a day than the U.S.</title><url>http://qz.com/528160/indonesias-palm-oil-fires-are-emitting-more-greenhouse-gases-every-day-than-the-entire-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>siilats</author><text>The article title is misleading though. It was for 1 day that they emitted more. So overall about 1% of us emissions if you average for the year or 100 times less.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nathangrant</author><text>&amp;quot;On 26 days from the period of Sept. 1 to Oct. 14, their daily emissions surpassed those of the entire US&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It seems they claim 26 days not 1, but you are correct the initial assumption readers will come to is that every day they exceed US emissions.</text></comment>
<story><title>Indonesia&apos;s palm oil fires emitted more greenhouse gases in a day than the U.S.</title><url>http://qz.com/528160/indonesias-palm-oil-fires-are-emitting-more-greenhouse-gases-every-day-than-the-entire-us/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>siilats</author><text>The article title is misleading though. It was for 1 day that they emitted more. So overall about 1% of us emissions if you average for the year or 100 times less.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dougmany</author><text>It is also misleading in that burning trees and burning fossil fuels is very different in terms of global warming.  The carbon trees are made of was extracted from the air as the tree grew so the net added to at atmosphere is zero.  The carbon from fossil fuels was nicely sequestered before it was dug up an burnt, adding to total carbon concentration in the air.&lt;p&gt;Edit:  OK I read the second half about peat and yes, the peat was sequestered before the fire so that is not good.</text></comment>