Reforestastion in order to bring back something similar to native forest, and to draw down carbon dioxide levers, is actually rather tricky. You can’t plant a monosystem of, say, pine tries, especially if they are not native.
One cool approach is to take acorns from an anchient native oak tree as one of 27+ natives in a reforestation areas. Check out this detailed article on BBC, 1,000-year-old oaks used to create ‘super forest’, by Hellen Briggs.
Here it is the United Nations water report for 2015: http://www.sustainablebrands.com/digital_learning/research_report/leadership/united_nations_world_water_development_report_2015?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=schtweets&utm_campaign=social As California suffer through water shortage, imagine what the rest of the world looks like. Now, imagine what the rest of the world will look like in the year 2050? By that time we should have moved to a population of 9 to 11…
— Article 2 of 2: The Intergenerational Betrayal — With COP30 now concluded in Belém, the global consensus on climate action faces a moment of reckoning. The final outcome—while preserving multilateral cooperation—fell short of transformational commitments, most notably by omitting any agreement to phase out fossil fuels. As Article 1 established, collective efforts remain aligned…
A question I sometimes ask of people who think that fossil fuels are here forever more and that electrification of everything will never happen… Has there ever been an oil spill in Yellowstone National Park? If so, how many? The answer I get surprisingly often is “none”. It is, after all, a National Park, right? …
http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/11/the-intergovernmental-panel-on-climate-change-top-10-charts/?utm_content=bufferf5770&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer The new IPCC report on Climate Change. It is a little bit of a long read… The report spends some time on probabilities, including what “business as usual” looks. BAU gets ugly, and uglier, and ugliest. Starting early, not later, seems to make sense…!!!
SustainZine (SustainZine.com) blogged about a rather cool idea on the decentralization of power (here). The idea in Nature Communications is to have buildings everywhere use their renewable power sources to generate a biofuel of some type. And the authors had the Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) unit extract CO2 from the atmosphere to generate…
Empirical Testing, Statistical Errors, and the Hidden Hockey Stick: A Scenario Analysis Global warming scenarios are not debates about belief; they are high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. In the very first sentence, the wager must be clear: humanity is betting the planet on which statistical error it can afford to make. This article examines climate change…
