Tropical forests may seem a long way away, but they play a vital role in our lives. They operate as the worlds natural air-conditioning and thermostat systems and produce much of the rainfall essential to the worlds growing population.
Rainforests absorb nearly a fifth of all man-made CO2 emissions but they are currently being destroyed at the rate of a football pitch every four seconds. When these forests are burnt -- for agriculture or mining, for example -- they release stored CO2 back into the atmosphere, pushing annual CO2 emissions from tropical deforestation above those of the global transport network.
It is for these reasons that HRH The Prince of Wales set up The Prince's Rainforests Project with the clear ambition of 'Making the trees worth more alive than dead.' On May 5th, the PRP launched a worldwide campaign to raise awareness of this issue. This is where you can play your part. We are looking for a global gathering to show this is something people care about.
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The Cure for Climate Change
ReplyDeleteThis guy has the answer? In this article published in McClatchy Newspapers almost a year ago, Ron Ace told the world how to fix global warming. He even had a model which supported his theory that was run by a leading environmental scientist at the Carnegie Institute's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University.
Nothing has come of it; are the governments asleep? Can’t they review/model his theory and either determine it's not the answer or if it is, let's get on it?!