Watch out…the timber beast will be drooling all over this one.
Industrial logging is NEVER a solution-regardless of what “government
scientists” say.
ASW
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“Since 1999, and especially in the last five years, the forests have
shifted from being a carbon sink to a carbon source.”
“That grim reality is stoking a new debate over commercial logging, one of
Canada’s biggest industries.”
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Chicago Tribune January 2, 2008
Canada’s forests, once huge help on greenhouse gases, now contribute to
climate change
By Howard Witt
VANCOUVER-As relentlessly bad as the news about global warming seems to be, with ice at the poles melting faster than scientists had predicted and world temperatures rising higher than expected, there was at least a reservoir of hope stored here in Canada’s vast forests.
The country’s 1.2 million square miles of trees have been dubbed the
“lungs of the planet” by ecologists because they account for more than 7
percent of Earth’s total forest lands. They could always be depended upon
to suck in vast quantities of carbon dioxide, naturally cleansing the
world of much of the harmful heat-trapping gas.
But not anymore.