RE: Queuing up for the Nickel15 Jan 2022 13:59
Thanks Sandy.
It seems that rogue countries are the biggest problem of deforestation for the sake of profit and the clearing of land for farming (eg for growing palm oil).
Scroll down to view the biggest culprits of deforestation. Note that they are mostly poor countries. What's the answer?
https://earth.org/deforestation-facts/
Also, the hotter the climate gets, the more forest fires we'll have. Granted, some are started deliberately.
The hotter the climate gets, the more carbon dioxide trees will release as this study states:
"New research shows that Earth’s overheated climate will alter forests at a global scale even more fundamentally, by flipping a critical greenhouse gas switch in the next few decades. The study suggests that, by 2040, forests will take up only half as much carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they do now, if global temperatures keep rising at the present pace.
The study, published Wednesday in Science Advances, analyzed more than 20 years of data from about 250 sites that measure the transfer of carbon dioxide between land and plants and the atmosphere—the way the planet breathes. Forests and the rest of Earth’s land-based ecosystems take up about 30 percent of human carbon emissions, so any big change in that process is important.
The data show a clear temperature limit, above which trees start to exhale more CO2 than they can take in through photosynthesis, said co-author Christopher Schwalm, an ecologist and earth system modeler at the Woodwell Climate Research Center. The findings mark a tipping point, of sorts, at which “the land system will act to accelerate climate change rather than slow it down,” Schwalm said."
DON'T FORGET THE PLANKTON.
Professor Petrovskii explained: "Global warming has been a focus of attention of science and politics for about two decades now. A lot has been said about its expected disastrous consequences; perhaps the most notorious is the global flooding that may result from melting of Antarctic ice if the warming exceeds a few degrees compared to the pre-industrial level. However, it now appears that this is probably not the biggest danger that the warming can cause to the humanity.
"About two-thirds of the planet's total atmospheric oxygen is produced by ocean phytoplankton -- and therefore cessation would result in the depletion of atmospheric oxygen on a global scale. This would likely result in the mass mortality of animals and humans."
Whilst we keep bickering whether or not Djokovic should be refused an Australian visa or whether Boris had a party or not during lockdown, the world continues to get warmer.
Are we too late?
Was the recent COP26 meeting in Glasgow just a show of words to win votes in a respective leader's own country or mainly a jolly on the taxpayers expense?
We'll see.
GLA. I'm going out now to hug a tree.
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