[kitchencabinetforum] THE GREAT FOREST REVERSAL

Forests in many regions are becoming larger carbon sinks thanks to higher density. Rockefeller University research proves that increased density significantly raised carbon storage despite little or no expansion of forest area. Even in the South American nations studied, more density helped maintain regional carbon levels in the face of deforestation.

Vaclav Klaus points out people tend to confuse environment protection with climate control. We have to take care of our rivers, lakes, seas, forests, and air. But humans cannot control the climate. Rabblerousers have been for a long time searching for a simple and sufficiently threatening catastrophe that could justify the implementation of kleptocratic ambitions. After having tried various alternative ideas, they came up with the idea of dangerous, man-made global warming. This concept was formulated despite the absence of reliable data. http://venitism.blogspot.com

The researchers analyzed information from 68 nations, which together account for 72 percent of the world's forested land and 68 percent of reported carbon mass. They conclude that managing forests for timber growth and density offers a way to increase stored carbon, even with little or no expansion of forest area.

In 2004, emissions and removals of carbon dioxide from land use, land-use change, and forestry comprised about one fifth of total emissions. Tempering the fifth by slowing or reversing the loss of carbon in forests would be a worthwhile mitigation. The great role of density means that not only conservation of forest area but also managing denser, healthier forests can mitigate carbon emission.

Remote sensing by satellites of the world's forest area brings access to remote places and a uniform method. However, to speak of carbon, we must look beyond measurements of area and apply forestry methods traditionally used to measure timber volumes. Forests are like cities; they can grow both by spreading and by becoming denser. http://venitism.blogspot.com

Most regions and almost all temperate nations have stopped losing forest and the study's findings constitute a new signal of the Great Reversal under way in global forests after centuries of loss and decline. Opportunities to absorb carbon and restore the world's forests can come through increasing density or area or both. With so much bad news available on world environment, the Great Reversal proves that all worriers are wrong.

Klaus recalls that rabblerousers bought into the global warming dogma(WGD) at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, fell in love with it and – without waiting for its scientific underpinning – started preparing and implementing economically damaging and freedom endangering measures. They accepted the idea that participating in the global warming game is easy, politically correct and politically profitable, especially when it is obvious that they themselves will not carry the costs of the measures they are advocating and implementing and will not be responsible for their consequences.

There are plenty of arguments indicating that the real threat is not global warming itself. The real threat comes when kleptocrats start playing with the climate and with all of us. Environmentalism and global warming alarmism ask for restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions, which would substantially increase the costs of energy. This would be devastating, because cheap energy is the source of much of our prosperity. http://venitism.blogspot.com

The Global Warming Dogma(GWD) asks for an almost unprecedented expansion of government intrusion into our lives and of government control over us. They tell us how to live, what to do, how to behave, what to consume, what to eat, how to travel, how to spend our holidays and many other things.