Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:32am EST
By David Fogarty, Climate Change Correspondent, Asia
SINGAPORE (Reuters)-The Southern Ocean has proved more resilient to global warming than previously thought and remains a major store of mankind’s planet-warming carbon dioxide, a study has found.
Oceans absorb a large portion of the extra CO2 released by mankind through burning fossil fuels or deforestation, acting as a brake on climate change, and the Southern Ocean is the largest of these “carbon sinks.”
It’s about time people (started thinking about U.S. forests…then again, this article holds a landmine toward the end…it’s called “biomass fuels.” Not a bad concept-if it means a return to wood-stoves & local, sustainable harvesting by local workers & sawmills (& not in roadless or old-growth areas).
This is all part of the Great North Woods that run from Maine to Minnesota…therefore this article has implications for the entire bio-region.
ASW
For a decade and more now, headline stories about the relationship
between our emergent new climate and the loss or reduction of forest
cover has proceeded as if only the forests of Africa, the Amazon,
Asia, and the Boreal North mattered. Forests in the U.S. have
remained substantially managed for extraction of wood products and
creation of related jobs–including extraction for jobs in the new
and still unsettled industry of burning forest biomass for fuels.
Lance
Times Union
November 23, 2008
Climate change affects forest
By BRIAN NEARING, Staff writer
TUPPER LAKE-What if we looked at the Adirondacks as more than just
a 6-million-acre forest? What if we also viewed it as a kind of
living factory in the fight against global warming, a mechanism
capable of sucking up tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
every day?
Maine Youth Give Pierce-Atwood something to think about...
Maine Activists Target Portland Law Firm for Role in Commodifying Maine’s Groundwater
People from across Maine brought trash bags full of empty plastic water bottles to Pierce Atwood Law Firm’s office in Portland, ME on the morning of Friday, November 14 to demonstrate the physical ramifications of the corporate bottling industry for Maine’s landfills. The law firm represents both Nestle’ Waters North America and the Nature Conservancy in their water acquisition projects throughout Maine. Nestle’, the Nature Conservancy, and Pierce Atwood share both financial resources and leadership in order to pursue an agenda of commodifying Maine’s groundwater. Young Maine residents and their allies gathered in Portland to protest against Pierce Atwood’s role as the legal liaison in the corporate theft of Maine’s water. In particular, those gathered were concerned about Nestle’s continued legal action against the people of Fryeburg as well as the Nature Conservancy’s refusal to remove commercial water extraction from the development easements attached to the Plum Creek development plan for the North Woods.
Malaria and dengue the sting in climate change:
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE4AJ2RQ20081120
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