Wild Fires Release Carbon-14 into the Atmosphere

The extreme wild-fires in the American West, as well as those around the Chernobyl accident site, pose a danger to human and animal health by releasing radioactive particles and gases back into the air.  In addition to the heat load on the planet caused by the fires themselves and the millions of tons of carbon dioxide produced (which increases the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere), these radioactive toxins released have a serious effect on our health.
During the Cold War era, the amount of C-14 in the atmosphere effectively doubled from its pre-war level because of all the free neutrons released by atmospheric tests which  interacted with carbon and nitrogen nuclei in the air.  At the same time the cases of cancer, produced by fallout from nuclear tests, also doubled over the next 30 years. (To account for latency between the time of exposure and the time of cancer appearance one must track the exposed population for several decades beyond the time when atmospheric bomb tests were banned by treaty in 1963).  Our forests and other biological processes acted as a cleaner and repository for this extra C-14 in the atmosphere produced by nuclear bombs and, over time, it was sequestered in vegetation, ocean sediments and other living things.  As the radioactive C-14 was gradually removed by the biota from the air, the cancer rates gradually returned to pre-war levels between the 1980s and the 2020s.
Whereas, burning fossil fuels also produces carbon dioxide, that gas does not contain radioactive carbon-14, like that being released by the wild-fires, because all the C-14 originally present in in fossil fuels has long since decayed while it was lying underground for millions of years.
The wildfires have now released much of that bomb test C-14 back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide where it is again mobile and will be incorporated into our food and bodies again.  I expect to see a resurgence in cancer cases just like what occurred in the 1940s through 1970s.  Is anyone out there even measuring the expected increase in C-14 in our atmosphere as a result of the fires burning our forests?  Vegetation has been an effective repository and sink for all that extra bomb test C-14 over the last three or four decades.  Now that this depot is gone the increase of C-14 in the atmosphere should be documented so that this knowledge can be correlated with future increases in cancer rates decades down the road.

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