It's a health disaster in terms of dangerous air pollution. It's an ecological disaster in terms of the loss of habitat for threatened species like the orangutan. And it's a global disaster in terms of releasing massive quantities of carbon dioxide. Tens of thousands of fires have raged in Indonesia this year, largely on Sumatra, in Papua and in the Kalimantan region of Borneo. The fires have emitted 1.6 gigatonnes of CO_2 so far, says Guido van der Werf of the VU University in the Netherlands, who works on the global fire emissions database. To put that in perspective, it has been estimated that the entire world must emit less than 1000 Gt of CO_2 from 2011 onwards if we are to avoid dangerous warming.
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机译：就危险的空气污染而言，这是一场健康灾难。就猩猩等濒危物种的栖息地丧失而言，这是一场生态灾难。就释放大量二氧化碳而言，这是一场全球灾难。今年印度尼西亚成千上万的大火，主要发生在苏门答腊，巴布亚和婆罗洲的加里曼丹地区。荷兰VU大学的Guido van der Werf表示，迄今为止，大火已经排放了1.6千兆吨的CO_2。为了正确理解这一点，据估计，为了避免危险的变暖，从2011年开始，全世界排放的CO_2必须少于1000 Gt。
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