<story><title>A Single Fire Killed at Least 10% of the World&apos;s Giant Sequoias, Study Says</title><url>https://text.npr.org/1002894521</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lmilcin</author><text>One problem with the article is they again claim trees take away carbon from atmosphere.&lt;p&gt;This is only true if you look at short term. In long term trees do nothing to CO2 because they only participate in a &lt;i&gt;CYCLE&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;For carbon to be permanently removed the tree would have to be somehow buried forever. For these sequoias the future is either they burn or they fall down and rot. In both cases the carbon is released.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Single Fire Killed at Least 10% of the World&apos;s Giant Sequoias, Study Says</title><url>https://text.npr.org/1002894521</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wedesoft</author><text>According to [1] there were more fires during the medieval warm period. &amp;quot;The scientists found the years from 800 to 1300, known as the Medieval Warm Period, had the most frequent fires in the 3,000 years studied.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;phys.org&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2010-03-giant-sequoias-yield-longest-history.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;phys.org&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;2010-03-giant-sequoias-yield-longest-h...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>