Zitellis Heid
Legendary Radge
- Joined
- May 26, 2006
Sure, there are cases for and against it`s actual existance, where lies the truth though?
"Scientists have warned that some 80 percent of the ecosystems in global jungles may disappear over deforestations and climate-change, a report says.
By 2100 only 18 percent to 45 percent of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today, ScienceDaily quoted a recent study by scientists at the US-based Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology.
The research cross-checks deforestation and logging data with climate-change trends to depict a clearer picture of the combined human effects on tropical forests.
"This is the first global compilation of projected ecosystem impacts for humid tropical forests affected by these combined forces," said lead scientist Greg Asner.
"For those areas of the globe projected to suffer most from climate change, land managers could focus their efforts on reducing the pressure from deforestation, thereby helping species adjust to climate change, or enhancing their ability to move in time to keep pace with it. On the flip side, regions of the world where deforestation is projected to have fewer effects from climate change could be targeted for restoration," he added.
The researchers say at the continental scale, about 70 percent of Africa's tropical forest biodiversity would likely be affected if current practices are not curbed.
Tropical forests hold more then half of all the plants and animal species on Earth. But the combined effects of climate change and deforestation may force them to adapt, move, or die."
This is simply an indipendant view, based on facts alone.
Do we bury our heads in the sand like Vlads Foot-soldiers?? Or leave our children a truly horrifing future? At this stage, I`m not sure what to believe.
Any genuine opinions out there?
"Scientists have warned that some 80 percent of the ecosystems in global jungles may disappear over deforestations and climate-change, a report says.
By 2100 only 18 percent to 45 percent of the plants and animals making up ecosystems in global, humid tropical forests may remain as we know them today, ScienceDaily quoted a recent study by scientists at the US-based Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology.
The research cross-checks deforestation and logging data with climate-change trends to depict a clearer picture of the combined human effects on tropical forests.
"This is the first global compilation of projected ecosystem impacts for humid tropical forests affected by these combined forces," said lead scientist Greg Asner.
"For those areas of the globe projected to suffer most from climate change, land managers could focus their efforts on reducing the pressure from deforestation, thereby helping species adjust to climate change, or enhancing their ability to move in time to keep pace with it. On the flip side, regions of the world where deforestation is projected to have fewer effects from climate change could be targeted for restoration," he added.
The researchers say at the continental scale, about 70 percent of Africa's tropical forest biodiversity would likely be affected if current practices are not curbed.
Tropical forests hold more then half of all the plants and animal species on Earth. But the combined effects of climate change and deforestation may force them to adapt, move, or die."
This is simply an indipendant view, based on facts alone.
Do we bury our heads in the sand like Vlads Foot-soldiers?? Or leave our children a truly horrifing future? At this stage, I`m not sure what to believe.
Any genuine opinions out there?
