The 2004 wildfire season in Alaska is recorded as consuming 6,600,000 acres, which is over 10,000 square miles. The New York metropolitan area is around 6000mi^2, and it’s near the morphological top of the top 20 big cities. We could naively expect less than 20x the climate disruption the Alaska wildfires caused, if we nuked the world’s 20 largest cities. Unfortunately, the only articles I can find are about how climate change affected the Alaska wildfires, not the reverse.
The 2004 wildfire season in Alaska is recorded as consuming 6,600,000 acres, which is over 10,000 square miles. The New York metropolitan area is around 6000mi^2, and it’s near the morphological top of the top 20 big cities. We could naively expect less than 20x the climate disruption the Alaska wildfires caused, if we nuked the world’s 20 largest cities. Unfortunately, the only articles I can find are about how climate change affected the Alaska wildfires, not the reverse.