Dalbergia Preservation

Global Warming and Deforestation

April 3, 2008 | Deforestation

Recent scientific research has concluded the extreme importance of stopping deforestation and implementing Reforestation projects like ours to curtail the current trends of Global Warming. There are many people who don’t buy Global Warming theories. I believe it is because they haven’t been presented with the true facts that are available. Our government, the current Bush administration in particular, have been reviewing, editing and changing the true facts presented to them by the research scientists before releasing the findings to the general public and those in the government responsible for establishing our environmental policies. In essence, a cover up of the truth in order to manipulate environmental policy by the EPA. This has been proven by a 16 month investigation by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Their findings:

“The evidence before the Committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush Administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming.

Much of the evidence proving the urgency of Global Warming that has been presented, reviewed and changed before being released to the public was submitted by Dr. James E. Hansen at Columbia University. Mr. Hansen is one of the nations top and most respected scientists at NASA (Goddard Institute for Space Studies). He has been employed and worked for the Institute for 40 years. He has expressed his concern and testified before the hearings held by the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in their investigation into the charges against the Bush administration which led to their most recent determination of the cover up. Conclusions of the hearings into these charges were released in December of 2007.

Mr. Hansen has most recently submitted new evidence and research to the government on how we can best deal with the issues of Global Warming. In this report he stipulates the significance and importance of REFORESTATION projects like ours.

“Improved agricultural and forestry practices offer a more natural way to draw down CO2. Deforestation contributed a net emission of 60+-30 ppm over the past few hundred years, of which ~20 ppm CO2 remains in the air today. REFORESTATION could absorb a significant fraction of the 60+-30 ppm net of deforestation emission.

Carbon sequestration in soil also has significant potential. Biochar, produced in the pyrolysis of residues from crops, forestry, and animal wastes, can be used to restore soil fertility while storing carbon for centuries to millennia. Biochar helps soil retain nutrients and fertilizers, reducing emissions of GHG’s such as N2O. Replacing slash-and-burn agriculture with slash-and-char and use of agricultural and forestry wastes for biochar production could provide a CO2 drawdown of ~8 ppm in half a century.

In Supplementary Material we define a forest/soil drawdown scenario that reaches 50 ppm by 2150. This scenario returns CO2 below 350 ppm late this century, after about 100 years above that level.”

If all this scientific data is going over your head….without reading all the other material that is provided in these findings, this is likely. In a nutshell, the suggestions on the benefits of Reforestation along with better agriculture and forestry practices could bring us back down to an acceptable level that would eliminate much of the current threats we’re facing in Global Warming issues.

According to Mr. Hansen, 

“Earth has passed a tipping point on Global Warming. We have not passed a point of no return. We can still roll things back in time - but it is going to take a quick turn in direction”.

If you’d like to read more on Mr. Hansens’ research and publications, you can find them at the Columbia University website: Columbia University