Renewable Revolution

November 22, 2017

New science from Camilo Mora, University of Hawaii. Second warning from 15,000 scientists: Dr. William Ripple, the man who started it. Adapting to extreme rains: “sponge cities” with futurist Chelsea Gohd.
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Posted on Oct, 18, 2017, by Radio Ecoshock

BAD CLIMATE NEWS FROM TROPICAL FORESTS – ALESSANDRO BACCINI

For a very long time, carbon has been taken out of the atmosphere by the plant world. We count on those services from the vast fabric of tropical rain forests. But all that has changed.

New science proves “Tropical forests are a net carbon source”. Our guest Alessandro Baccini is the lead author of that paper published September 28th in the journal Science. Dr. Baccini works at the Woods Hole Research Center. He specializes in analyzing Earth from space using satellites.

Dr. Alessandro Baccini

The title of the paper is “Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on above-ground measurements of gain and loss“.

Now we have a number for the amount of carbon lost from tropical forests to the atmosphere each year: 425 million metric tons. That is more carbon every year than all traffic in the U.S., according to these researchers. It’s a staggering amount of carbon, but so far less than the greenhouse gases emitted by countries like the United States or China.

https://www.ecoshock.org/2017/10/the-next-climate-domino-tropical-forests.html