Forests in Crisis

Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith, and Regina Valdez discuss the very important topic of Forests. Paul joined the conversation while enroute to, just north of Kenora, where he was taking his son to work as a tree planter.

This video was recorded on April 30th, 2021, and published on October 27th, 2021.

The following topics and more are discussed:

• The human impact on forests in the form of deforestation equivalent to the area of Portugal every decade.
• The importance of ‘Old Growth Forests’ as a carbon sink and how they are more immune than new growth forests to wildfires.
• How what’s happening in Brazil and other places like the Ecuadorian and Peruvian amazon with deforestation is exactly what happened hundreds of years ago in Europe and the Bolsonaro response of “We want our Europe, we want our time, we want to grow economically.”
• How fire is increasing in both of the world’s two great forests being the Amazon and Boreal. forests.
• The important research led by Baccini in which they found that the satellite data, when they looked at that closely for all the tropical forests, showed that they were a net carbon source rather than sink.
• and more…

Links:

• Dunsinane Hill

• Deforestation and Forest Loss

• Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss

• Adaptations to Climate Change in C3, C4, and CAM Plants

Panelists:

• Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute

• Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University

• Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate

Video Production:

• Charles Gregoire – Climate Reality Leader, Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum

• Heidi Brault - Climate Reality Leader, BA(Psychology), Library & Information Technician Diploma - Video production and website assistant - Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP26 Team Lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum.

Attributions:

Background Music:

• Title: Through the City II
• Author: Crowander
• Source: Free Music Archive
• License: BY-NC 4.0

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