An alarming report from the US Department of Agriculture predicts that by 2070, the nation’s forests will release substantially more carbon than they store.
Forests in the US – bar those in Alaska – will no longer absorb 150 million metric tons of carbon a year within five decades, experts say.
That carbon is equivalent to the emissions of roughly 40 coal power plants.
To understand how a carbon sink can become a carbon tap, we have to consider the lifecycle of a healthy forest, where new growth matures into old growth and old growth dies and makes room for new growth.
But today, in North America, not enough young trees are being planted and allowed to grow up.
This means that mature forests are outpacing young forests, which are also more likely to be harvested or killed due to climate effects like wildfires, drought, or storms.
The overall shift to an older age cohort of trees means that in the future, forests in the US could be dying more than they are growing.
Practically, this turns forests from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters.
Old growth trees hold the most carbon in total, but after reaching a certain size, their growth seems
Here we have a lady who seems seriously to think that we can all make an impact on the global water shortage by taking shorter showers, putting bricks in our toilet cisterns, and washing our clothes less.
Right, must get on that.
Imagine, here I am a few miles from Seathwaite, Cumbria, with the rain pouring down as it has for some weeks now. The beck down Styhead is foaming and rushing down into Derwentwater. The wettest place in England, maybe the UK, and that is pretty wet. Not monsoon, just continous steady wetness year round, and a huge lake a few miles away full of the stuff. Same if I were up in the highlands of Scotland where the autumn rain is sometimes dense enough to wash away the midges.
But I see now that its imperative for me to wash only using a flannel in a handbasin after my sodden trip up Scafell in the mist and the downpour, and not wash my muddy socks and pants, just dry them and shake them out. Because the thirsty children in the Sahel. Yes, of course, that will help them no end. We all have to do our bit.
Will they let me into the dining room like this, though? That’s what I am really wondering about.
Story tip
Canada and Hawaii wildfires, climate change hysteria, and the main stream media.
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Climate scientist whistleblower Patrick Brown reveals how the media’s obsession with global warming manipulates the truth about wildfires – 80% are ignited by humans
Patrick T. Brown, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, claimed the world’s leading academic journals reject papers which don’t ‘support certain narratives’
He also took aim at the media for focusing ‘intently on climate change as the root cause’ of wildfires, including the recent devastating fires in Hawaii
The approach ‘distorts a great deal of climate science research’, Brown claimed
Ever notice that the main GHG, water vapor, is never mentioned in the media
CampsieFellow
September 5, 2023 10:51 am
In Jan 2023 I wrote to my (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament, asking her if the SNP had any plans to introduce 20-minute zones in Scotland. She referred my question to the Minister for Transport. The Minister duly replied on 20 March. A copy of the reply was passed on to me. In her reply, the Minister for Transport stated:
“We have commissioned research on equitable options for car demand management, including pricing. Using the findings of the research, we will work with local and regional partners to develop options and proposals to support the 20% car km reduction target and will set these out in a Demand Management Framework, by 2025.”
In August 2023, an outfit calling itself The Climate Emergency Response Group published a report “Committing to delivery: Certainty and leadership for a just transition to a net zero, climate resilient future for Scotland”.
Section 3 of the Report is: 3. Introduce fiscal levers as part of a coherent strategy to reduce car reliance and improve places for people.
It states:
Given the tight timeframes and the extensive engagement required to co-design, test and roll out locally appropriate road user charging schemes and parking levies, it is imperative that the Scottish Government rapidly takes the first step by setting out the clear policy imperative to use fiscal levers to rebalance the costs of travel in favour of public, shared and active travel. It must then open the door for constructive dialogue with businesses, local authorities and other stakeholder groups to co-design principles and standards for the fair and effective transition away from car-dominated travel. The Programme for Government should set out the Scottish Government’s high level policy intention to engage closely with business, local authorities and equalities groups over the next year to agree an equitable framework to guide the use of fiscal levers to reduce car reliance and improve places for people, culminating in the publication of the Car Demand Management Framework in 2024 (brought forward from 2025). The updated ‘Route map to achieve a 20 per cent reduction in car kilometres by 2030’ should be published as soon as possible, and commit to:
1. Introducing road user charging as part of its policy toolkit and provide certainty on whether a national road pricing scheme will be pursued, or whether delivery will rely wholly on local / regional charging schemes.
2. Delivering on the commitments made in the New Deal for Business and the Verity House Agreement to consult and collaborate with business, local government as well as poverty and disability groups in the design of a national approach to road user charging to ensure equality and just transition are built in from the start.
3. Resourcing local authorities to enter sustained local level stakeholder engagement processes and undertake the detailed design work required for place-based schemes which include demand management measures such as Work-Place Parking Licensing, other parking charges and local road charging schemes.
4. Kicking-off a multi-agency led national information campaign on sustainable travel by end of 2023 bringing together transport, public health, environment, poverty, planning and tourism agencies. To be mirrored by local campaigns and engagement.
5. Taking action to close all regulatory gaps to enable the introduction of local road user charging schemes from 2025. 6. Building alliances with UK city regions and other devolved administrations to advocate for a UK-wide approach to road pricing that more equitably shares the costs of travel and generates revenue for public transport. https://cerg.scot/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CERG-Report-August-2023.pdf
In a way, the introduction of road tolls in Scotland would be somewhat ironic as one of the populist measures the SNP included in its 2007 Manifesto was to remove tolls from all road bridges in Scotland.
Given the amount of money raised by ULEZ in London, road charging in Scotland should be a nice little earner for the Scottish Government.
Story tip
An alarming report from the US Department of Agriculture predicts that by 2070, the nation’s forests will release substantially more carbon than they store.
Forests in the US – bar those in Alaska – will no longer absorb 150 million metric tons of carbon a year within five decades, experts say.
That carbon is equivalent to the emissions of roughly 40 coal power plants.
To understand how a carbon sink can become a carbon tap, we have to consider the lifecycle of a healthy forest, where new growth matures into old growth and old growth dies and makes room for new growth.
But today, in North America, not enough young trees are being planted and allowed to grow up.
This means that mature forests are outpacing young forests, which are also more likely to be harvested or killed due to climate effects like wildfires, drought, or storms.
The overall shift to an older age cohort of trees means that in the future, forests in the US could be dying more than they are growing.
Practically, this turns forests from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters.
Old growth trees hold the most carbon in total, but after reaching a certain size, their growth seems
Story Tip — Another wonderful piece of insanity from the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/05/how-to-use-less-water-15-tips-beef-burgers-megabutts-clothes
Here we have a lady who seems seriously to think that we can all make an impact on the global water shortage by taking shorter showers, putting bricks in our toilet cisterns, and washing our clothes less.
Right, must get on that.
Imagine, here I am a few miles from Seathwaite, Cumbria, with the rain pouring down as it has for some weeks now. The beck down Styhead is foaming and rushing down into Derwentwater. The wettest place in England, maybe the UK, and that is pretty wet. Not monsoon, just continous steady wetness year round, and a huge lake a few miles away full of the stuff. Same if I were up in the highlands of Scotland where the autumn rain is sometimes dense enough to wash away the midges.
But I see now that its imperative for me to wash only using a flannel in a handbasin after my sodden trip up Scafell in the mist and the downpour, and not wash my muddy socks and pants, just dry them and shake them out. Because the thirsty children in the Sahel. Yes, of course, that will help them no end. We all have to do our bit.
Will they let me into the dining room like this, though? That’s what I am really wondering about.
Story tip
Canada and Hawaii wildfires, climate change hysteria, and the main stream media.
– – – – – – – – –
Climate scientist whistleblower Patrick Brown reveals how the media’s obsession with global warming manipulates the truth about wildfires – 80% are ignited by humans
Patrick T. Brown, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, claimed the world’s leading academic journals reject papers which don’t ‘support certain narratives’
He also took aim at the media for focusing ‘intently on climate change as the root cause’ of wildfires, including the recent devastating fires in Hawaii
The approach ‘distorts a great deal of climate science research’, Brown claimed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12482921/climate-scientist-patrick-brown-wildfires-started-people.html
Ever notice that the main GHG, water vapor, is never mentioned in the media
In Jan 2023 I wrote to my (SNP) Member of the Scottish Parliament, asking her if the SNP had any plans to introduce 20-minute zones in Scotland. She referred my question to the Minister for Transport. The Minister duly replied on 20 March. A copy of the reply was passed on to me. In her reply, the Minister for Transport stated:
“We have commissioned research on equitable options for car demand management, including pricing. Using the findings of the research, we will work with local and regional partners to develop options and proposals to support the 20% car km reduction target and will set these out in a Demand Management Framework, by 2025.”
In August 2023, an outfit calling itself The Climate Emergency Response Group published a report “Committing to delivery: Certainty and leadership for a just transition to a net zero, climate resilient future for Scotland”.
Section 3 of the Report is: 3. Introduce fiscal levers as part of a coherent strategy to reduce car reliance and improve places for people.
It states:
Given the tight timeframes and the extensive engagement required to co-design, test and roll out locally appropriate road user charging schemes and parking levies, it is imperative that the Scottish Government rapidly takes the first step by setting out the clear policy imperative to use fiscal levers to rebalance the costs of travel in favour of public, shared and active travel. It must then open the door for constructive dialogue with businesses, local authorities and other stakeholder groups to co-design principles and standards for the fair and effective transition away from car-dominated travel. The Programme for Government should set out the Scottish Government’s high level policy intention to engage closely with business, local authorities and equalities groups over the next year to agree an equitable framework to guide the use of fiscal levers to reduce car reliance and improve places for people, culminating in the publication of the Car Demand Management Framework in 2024 (brought forward from 2025). The updated ‘Route map to achieve a 20 per cent reduction in car kilometres by 2030’ should be published as soon as possible, and commit to:
1. Introducing road user charging as part of its policy toolkit and provide certainty on whether a national road pricing scheme will be pursued, or whether delivery will rely wholly on local / regional charging schemes.
2. Delivering on the commitments made in the New Deal for Business and the Verity House Agreement to consult and collaborate with business, local government as well as poverty and disability groups in the design of a national approach to road user charging to ensure equality and just transition are built in from the start.
3. Resourcing local authorities to enter sustained local level stakeholder engagement processes and undertake the detailed design work required for place-based schemes which include demand management measures such as Work-Place Parking Licensing, other parking charges and local road charging schemes.
4. Kicking-off a multi-agency led national information campaign on sustainable travel by end of 2023 bringing together transport, public health, environment, poverty, planning and tourism agencies. To be mirrored by local campaigns and engagement.
5. Taking action to close all regulatory gaps to enable the introduction of local road user charging schemes from 2025. 6. Building alliances with UK city regions and other devolved administrations to advocate for a UK-wide approach to road pricing that more equitably shares the costs of travel and generates revenue for public transport.
https://cerg.scot/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CERG-Report-August-2023.pdf
In a way, the introduction of road tolls in Scotland would be somewhat ironic as one of the populist measures the SNP included in its 2007 Manifesto was to remove tolls from all road bridges in Scotland.
Given the amount of money raised by ULEZ in London, road charging in Scotland should be a nice little earner for the Scottish Government.
Story tip
Here is an editorial from Science mag that should get everyone going its about the Maui fires https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adk4197