Comments on: Nature on stunning new climate feedback: Beetle tree kill releases more carbon than fires

By: aeroponicsman

aeroponicsman — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:08:42 +0000

Find out what the US Forest Service has done recently about beetle kill – you’ll be amazed:

NPR – ODC for Pine beetles – listen about pre-arming trees to fight pine beetles visit http://tinyurl.com/maszre

By: kiwichick

kiwichick — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:35:17 +0000

water

www ceto.com.au

By: Jay Alt

Jay Alt — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:08:27 +0000

June in Estes Park. Photos 66 – 72. retching
http://picasaweb.google.com/ ethniegroves/ EstesParkJune2008#5217487469192550642

By: Bill McEwen

Bill McEwen — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:44:51 +0000

25 million acres in Canada. 1.5 million acres in Colorado. .5 million acres
in S. CA. This is just part of the toll on the western North American continent because of these climate-forced, temperature driven bark beetle
infestations. And who is going to guarantee these ecosystems are going to
return when we’re changing the whole climate system that made them possible in the first place?
In the Colorado Rockies, the bark beetle infestations are already impacting
key watersheds that feed water to millions of Westerners. How soon will
these catastrophic beetle infestations devastate the California Sierra’s, our
other key watershed? What will this very abrupt, non-linear series of events mean for already decreasing snowpack, and streamflow? These
bark beetle infestations, and the other FOREST DISTURBANCE REGIMES
such as drought and fire are striking at the very heart of our civilization.
Water is life, so they say. What do we do when the watersheds have all
been destroyed?

By: Ludwig

Ludwig — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:31:42 +0000

David B. Benson: The Livingston and Penn paper (National Solar Observatory in Tucson) entitled: “Sunspots may vanish by 2015″ is suggesting that another “litttle ice age” could happen soon.

By: David B. Benson

David B. Benson — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:05:52 +0000

HumansFirst EarthSecond wrote “Astrophysicists are predicting another “little ice age” soon.”

I don’t believe you.

By: Eli Rabett

Eli Rabett — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:35:25 +0000

Every bit helps or hurts. You can see this with the fisking that Joe Romm’s wedge proposals met. Yes we might need more, we also might need less, but to refuse to do anything because we need to wait for the perfect proposal is to guarantee failure. It is not unreasonable to suspect the motives for these demands are to avoid taking any action. We need to start taking action now.

By: HumansFirst EarthSecond

HumansFirst EarthSecond — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:20:09 +0000

Joe,

I’m not quitting my day job.

So I take that to mean book sales are not in the “robust” catagory? Try a different topic next time. Maybe a survivalist cookbook, with a chapter on cannibalistic delicacies? (Ted Turner could assist with some recipes)

What about Holocene Maximum? Medieval warm period?

Astrophysicists are predicting another “little ice age” soon.

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:05:05 +0000

270MT is not good news, but is small beer compared to the 8000MT of fossil fuel we burn each year.

The situation in Indonesia is worse.

http://www.wetlands.org/ publication.aspx?id=51a80e5f-4479-4200-9be0-66f1aa9f9ca9

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It was found that current likely CO2 emissions of drained peatlands caused by decomposition only, amounts to 632 Mt/y (between 355 and 874 Mt/y). This emission will increase in coming decades unless land management practices and peatland development plans are changed, and will continue well beyond the 21st century.
In addition, over 1997-2006 an estimated average of 1400 Mt/y in CO2 emissions was caused by peatland fires that are also associated with drainage and degradation. The current total peatland CO2 emission of 2000 Mt/y equals almost 8% of global emissions from fossil fuel burning. These emissions have been rapidly increasing since 1985 and will further increase unless action is taken. Over 90% of this emission originates from Indonesia, which puts the country in 3rd place (after the USA and China) in the global CO2 emission ranking.
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By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:05:46 +0000

HumansLast: The Earth is now overshooting any recent temperatures. And T is rising much faster than it has before.

Helps sell books, HumansLast? Who knew you were a comedian?