The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...it-absorbs

At some point in the near future, covid will become a manageable infectious disease, a part of the background hum. But the impending ecological catastrophe (the one Murdoch and his more debased flunkies assures us is a hoax), isn't going anywhere.

Hi [member=64]PaulP[/member]‍ , is this the result of clearing?

I recall the Attenborough doco talking about this inversion that occurs, when too much forest structure is damaged or altered the forest changes from CO2 absorbing to CO2 emission, with the effects worsened by changing rainfall/weather patterns.

It's not hard to draw a parallel between the Gladys' COVID response and the lack of climate change action, when they eventually flip and they will far sooner than the deniers realise, it will be too late and the price paid will be beyond the trivial inconvenience we would have suffered for early action. If the nutter brigade thought COVID lockdowns were intolerable, God help them when the real aggressive climate action starts! in the meantime local cancels ban wood burning and gas heating, but carry on laying millions of square meters of asphalt day after day after day, but they put electric cars on it! :o

Interestingly, COVID airfares are a slice of what is to come, $40K each way to the UK!