nanoatzin t1_j1qpyz5 wrote
Reply to comment by Creative_soja in Logged forest compared with an unlogged forest could be better for climate change. A detailed assessment of vegetation growth, bird and mammal numbers, and energy flows in logged and unlogged forests offers some surprising findings. by Creative_soja
Scientist: “clear cutting trees good for climate change and wildlife diversity”.
> Wildfires, logging turn protected forests into carbon emitters -report
I think we can safely say that if a toilet paper company can give a 65 year old semi-retired scientist $5 million to conduct research explains how “clear cutting old growth forest is a good thing”, then we would expect that scientist to study how wildlife diversity increases after wildlife migrated from the logged area from the unlogged area, with a bonus that toilet paper is a “carbon sink”, therefore “proving” the claim that global desertification by clear cutting all of the trees is the solution to climate change and habitat loss.
Problem: trees are where quite a bit of our oxygen comes from, most of the wildlife is now gone, so flushing all of our trees down the toilet may not be the best way to remove carbon from the atmosphere and improve the environment.
The fossil fuel industry has shown us how to conduct this kind of fraudulent scientific research for over half a century by making old scientists wealthy.
CBXER t1_j1qv5pj wrote
Riding offroad in British Columbia in the heatwaves there is a very noticeable temperature rise in clearcuts. Zero shade, species are going extinct as tematures rise. This report is creative fiction.
nanoatzin t1_j1r69c0 wrote
Obviously so. Trees evaporate hundreds of gallons of water each day into the atmosphere.
Leemcardhold t1_j1r946v wrote
Immature trees grow faster then mature trees locking in more carbon. Good for climate change. Immature trees offer more food for wildlife, buds are reachable, etc. You can only grow immature trees by creating space by cutting mature trees.
It’s not a conspiracy by paper companies it’s standard knowledge in forestry/environmental science.
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