- Sep 19, 2011
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Well myths, not only do I understand fully what sequestration means, I also understand that the normal areas of sequestration are rapidly declining. The forested area of the Earth is declining as we cut more and more of the old growth and replace it with farmland or urban areas. Much of the Arctic is an emitting rather than absorbing area now as the permafrost warms. And the Arctic Ocean Clathrates are emitting big time.
Now if you wish to lecture someone, perhaps you should start with your peer level. About the third grade.
Again with the OLD MYTHS and cliches!
Deforestation of WHAT part of the earth?
Not the USA which is what I was specifically describing!
Yet YOU want the USA to pay for the Amazon deforestation?
FACTS about "deforestation" in the USA first!
"Over the past 50 years, net growth has consistently exceeded removals in the United States," said Smith, the tree expert.
1) It hit bottom in 1920, when only 735 million acres of woodlands were left.
2) As a result, the land area covered by forests has risen slightly, from 735 million to 749 million acres.
Trees now occupy one-third of the nation's territory.
Only 10 percent of the land in Ohio was forested in 1910, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Today trees cover more than 30 percent of the state, although its population has more than doubled.
U.S. forest growth spotty, not likely to last | McClatchy
SO again.. with the cliched out of date ohh... we are in your totally inaccurate words.." The forested area of the Earth is declining as we cut more and more of the old growth and replace it with farmland or urban areas."
MAYBE right in the rest of the WORLD but the USA your out of date cliche is totally WRONG!
AGAIN just so you understand how WRONG you are:
1) early 1600s more then 1 billion acres of forests.
2) 1920 735 million acres left OR about 30% less..
3) Today..almost 750 million acres and GROWING!!!
So as I said.. old out of date cliches..OLD TIMER!!!