Tropical rainforests..GLOBAL WARNING

Vast amounts of greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide - are released into the atmosphere as a result of clearing and burning rainforests. In recent years, deforestation has contributed as much as 30 percent of all anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Tropical deforestation therefore contributes significantly to global warming both through the release of stored carbon and through the destruction of one of the Earth’s prime ways of absorbing excess atmospheric carbon. Moreover, by acting as a ‘heat pump’ that redistributes the energy of sunlight from the equator to the temperate regions, tropical rainforests have another vitally important role that has been largely ignored by climatologists. Tropical rainforests, and particularly those of the Amazon Basin, warm the temperate zones while cooling the tropics, and in the process, regulate the flow of freshwater through the ecosystem, determining local and regional rainfall patterns. Destroying the tropical rain forests will perturb climate in ways every bit as powerfully as the addition of greenhouse gases.

Whilst the Philippines goverment on one hand plants 500,000 saplings along the green highway, very commendable on its own, it also allows licences to cut down 36,000 hectres of forests.The Sierra Madre is not for sale, even if TFPI HAS AN IFMA, cutting it down is against the Philippines Presidents own moritorium. NO MORE LOGGING, the granting of the ifma is therefore illegal

posted by tarsier

A point to be made here is the total lack of understanding as to the damage done not only to the Philippines but to the world in general, in Brazil Americans have bought vast arears of the rainforest (for around 20$ a hectre) which i believe they will cut down. Do they not know the power they are dealing with, around the equivelent of 5-6 million atom bombs going off , is produced by the Brazilian rainforest raincycle.

If this goes, then the tropics will get hotter and the temperate climates colder,before that happens the ice caps will melt, the oceans could rise 120 meters, 400 feet (how far are you above sea level?) Would the Netherlands still be here? would Denmark? would England?

There is not one goverment on the planet, no not if all the goverments worked together could they recreate the power of the rainforests.. the answer is to stop cutting down the trees, and replant.

As the planet warms, oceans will also start to die, plankton is vital to ocean life, fish survive on it, we survive on the fish or fishing, the plankton is slowly disapearing, what of our Filipino fishermen and their families? what of our marine life, the beauty of the oceans... the answer is to stop cutting down the trees, and replant

If you do not want to believe me, go to your scientists, go ask them, and above all listen..listen, learn and act

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