Climate Change
Forests.org and Rainforest
Portal projects of
Ecological Internet, Inc.
October 31, 2008
OVERVIEW & COMMENTARY by Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
New research in _Royal Society journal Philosophical Transactions A_ “suggests that chopping down forests could accelerate global warming more than was thought, and that protecting existing trees could be one of the best ways to tackle the problem.” The report quantifies how the release of the chemical terpene from tree canopies leads to cloud formation that cools the climate. Given ancient forests’ massive canopies, the findings further clarify intact forest wildernesses’ critical role in maintaining an operable atmosphere.
Much remains to be learned regarding Gaia’s workings, forests’ interaction with climate, and the need for ecologically sufficient policy-making, yet it is gratifying to see formal science continue to catch up with Ecological Internet’s biocentric campaigns
Given additional recent scientific findings that old-growth forests continue to remove atmospheric carbon indefinitely, and primary forests lose much of their carbon permanently when first logged, there
is no longer any justification for destruction of and forests. And presenting “sustainable” logging of such sacred and life-giving primeval treasures as having environmental benefits is ecologically bereft and criminally negligent (you know who you are, and we are coming for you).Through a combination of ecological science and intuition, Ecological Internet and predecessors have long known that loss of intact forest habitats is the key cause of climate change, as well as general biodiversity, ecosystem and biosphere collapse. We know that ending humanity’s cutting and burning of itself to death is key to our shared survival. In particular, global ecological sustainability is going to
require giving up timbers accessed from ancient forests, and restoring old-growth forests worldwide. Ecological Internet is going to keep on saying this, confronting those that say otherwise, whatever the costs, because it is the ecological truth necessary to sustain being.
g.b. http://www.ecoearth.info/
From 1990 to
2005, just two types of wood-boring beetles affected more than 466,000 acres in
Utah.
The huge bark-beetle family includes the Engleman spruce, Douglas fir and
mountain pine beetles, native insects that have all been ravaging pine
populations throughout Utah and the West. In the Dixie National Forest, it's the spruce beetle, mere millimeters in length, doing the damage.
The U.S. Forest Service's Bark Beetle Technical Working Group calls the bark beetle an "agent of change" in conifer forests
in the Rocky Mountain region, noting that the insects can play a critical role in the development and rebirth of Western forests.
The Australia Institute https://www.tai.org.au/