Letters to the editor

Updated October 31 2018 - 9:59am, first published 9:45am
POWER PLAY: An academic said bushfires in 2013 emitted an amount of CO2 equivalent to 2 per cent of Australia’s annual emissions from coal-fired power. Picture: Daniel Kalisz
POWER PLAY: An academic said bushfires in 2013 emitted an amount of CO2 equivalent to 2 per cent of Australia’s annual emissions from coal-fired power. Picture: Daniel Kalisz

Smoke and mirrors

I REFER to Carl Stevenson’s letter (“Science of convenience”, Lakes Mail,  October 25) in which he suggested that one major bushfire would produce more emissions than a power station burning fossil fuels for a year. May I remind him of what our scientists have found?

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