Links tagged “deforestation”
- Trump signs the Great American Outdoors Act into law – ‘Provides $900 million annually in oil & gas revenues for Land and Water Conservation Fund’
The property-grabbing feds get mandatory funding - The Great American Outdoors Act basically contained two provisions. One would permanently fund the Land & Water Conservation Fund to the tune of $900 million per year (the primary use of this fund is for land acquisition). The second provision establishes the National Parks and Public Lands Legacy Restoration Fund. You see, the feds can’t take care of the lands they already own, so this new fund would authorize up to $9.5 billion over the next five years to catch-up on back logged maintenance projects on federal land.
One of the few Senators to talk sense on this legislation was Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) who said, “This Act is an expensive, shortsighted mistake. It spends money we don’t have to buy more federal land when the federal government is already failing to take care of the land it already owns.”
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- BBC: Climate change: Planting new forests ‘can do more harm than good’
Rather than benefiting the environment, large-scale tree planting may do the opposite, two new studies have found. One paper says that financial incentives to plant trees can backfire and reduce biodiversity with little impact on carbon emissions. A separate project found that the amount of carbon that new forests can absorb may be overestimated. The key message from both papers is that planting trees is not a simple climate solution. ...
They point to the fact that in the Bonn Challenge nearly 80% of the commitments made to date involve planting monoculture plantations or a limited mix of trees that produce specific products such as fruit or rubber. ...
In the US, even President Donald Trump has rowed in behind the Trillion Trees Campaign.
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- Folly: Germany Plans To Convert Coal Power Plant To Burn 100-Year Old Trees In Minutes!
- Green Energy: Destroying The Environment To Save It
- No, Climate Change Is NOT Making Trees Shorter
- Greening the planet and slouching towards Paris? ‘Paper predicts Earth is going to gain nearly three times as much green matter as was predicted by UN IPCC’
- Debunking Claims that Climate Change Spreads Viruses
- Climate Alarmists Spread Disease and Viruses Through Deforestation: ‘Wind & solar power require clearing and developing huge amounts of land to produce small amount of power’
- Wind, Solar And Biofuel Energy Are Devastating Planet Earth
- In The Name Of Climate Protection: Deforesting The US To Make Europe Greener
