— "safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations" —
— "safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations" —
— "safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations" —
— "safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations" —
— "safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations" —
The Geophyscial Dynamics override Bush Era political backpeddling. The CO2 content of Earth has to come down immediately. There needs to be work on methane as well. Earth is in a dangerous negative feedback loop and the food supplies are being drastically effected for many reasons. The carbon sinks are going down and if the ocean becomes to hot for primary producers it will just too bad.
Forest protection hinges on 10-word phrase (click here)
Tue Nov 3, 2009 4:40pm EST
...The 10-word provision — "safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations" — was part of the proposal on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, known as REDD. The words were enclosed in brackets. Meaning, they were still up for negotiation....
What effects the land, effects the seas.
Postponement is NOT an option. NOT ! The dangers and damage are exponential and every moment that passes without resolve creates more possbility the next tipping point might be the last.
Climate change deal must be global priority, says Darling (click title to entry - thank you)
World leaders have been urged not to let money stand in the way of a global deal on climate change.
Published: 11:24AM GMT 06 Nov 2009
The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December has been billed as humanity’s last chance to stop global warming by reducing greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
But negotiators meeting in Barcelona this week for the latest round of negotiations have admitted that any meaningful deal is unlikely until the end of next year because the US and other rich nations will not commit to cutting carbon emissions....
Earth is good at OVER ABUNDANCE. It produces far more than any biological entity can consume, BUT, it has a delicate balance and humans have destroyed that balance. Earth's over abundance can no longer 'handle' the MISTAKES of humans and their narcisstic ability to destroy their own home!
Chapter 13: The Sixth Extinction (click here)
by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin (Doubleday, 1995)
AN ACCIDENT OF HISTORY we may be, but there is no question that Homo sapiens is the single most dominant species on Earth today. We arrived late on the evolutionary scene and at a time when the diversity of life on the planet was near its all-time high. And, as we saw in chapter 10, we arrived equipped with the capacity to devastate that diversity wherever human populations travelled. Blessed with reason and insight, we move toward the twenty-first century in a world of our own creation, an essentially artificial world in which (for some, at least) technology brings material comfort and leisure brings unprecedented artistic creation. So far, unfortunately, our reason and insight have not prevented us from collectively exploiting Earth's resources-biological and physical-in unprecedented ways....
