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TASMANIA
PLAYS WITH
EARTH, FIRE, AIR & WATER
with GLOBAL WARMING CONSEQUENCES
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NEWS
FEATURE
March 2004
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Carbon Flux -
Rainforests under STRESS
because of declining rainfall, and producing carbon
dioxide instead of consuming it. Declining rainfall
is the result of Global Warming.
Thursday, 4 March 2004
Forests are often called ‘the lungs of the world’
able to soak up carbon dioxide and produce the oxygen
we need to live. But now researchers at the Australian
Canopy Crane Research Facility are finding worrying
evidence that this forest has begun to do the unthinkable.
It’s started to produce carbon dioxide. It’s
a discovery that’s unnerving biochemist Mike Liddell.
ABC
CATALYST...
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Soil disturbance causes carbon dioxide
release.
Tree plantations cause carbon dioxide release.
The problem is soils. Forest soils and the organic
matter buried in them typically contain three to four
times as much carbon as the vegetation above. CarboEurope's
researchers have discovered that when ground is cleared
for forest planting, rotting organic matter in the soil
releases a surge of CO2 into the air.
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FARMS WILL NOT HALT CLIMATE CHANGE... |
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In comparison
to all Australian coal-fired power stations, how much
carbon dioxide do these annual Forestry
Tasmania bonfires emit? |
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Tasmania's
Contribution to Global Warming
by cutting down its Rainforests
& replacing them with Tree Plantations |
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EARTH
• Soil Disturbance
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Styx Valley - Tasmania
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• Rainforest
Replacement
MORE...
A
TASMANIAN BUSINESS... |
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FIRE
• What Gets Burnt
MORE...
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AIR
• Smoke & Pollution
MORE...
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WATER
• When these forests are converted
to plantations and recycled in that manner,
water use and loss is far greater....
EXPERT
OPINION...
• Tasmania is already reliant on
artificial means of water supplies....
CLOUD
SEEDING...
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Green Valley - Tasmania |
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Tasmania's
Southwood - What would you think
of a new development which cuts down the
forest to make woodchips to burn in a
power station to make power to run machines
that make more woodchips? Is this the
ultimate in Forestry
Tasmania’s quest to find the
perfect industry – a woodchipping
equivalent of the perpetual motion machine?
SOUTHWOOD A Perpetual Woodchipping Machine |
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Rainforest
STRESS = Global Warming |
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Some Recent Global Warming
Stories
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GENEVA
The world's second-largest reinsurer Swiss Re warns that
the costs of global warming threaten to spiral out of
control, forcing the human race into a catastrophe of
its own making......
PLANET
ARK... |
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Barrier Reef just 50 years
from death
The Great Barrier Reef will lose most of its coral cover
by 2050, inflicting billions of dollars in damage on Australia's
tourism and fishing industries, a study on coral bleaching
has warned......
SYDNEY
MORNING HERALD... |
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‘Great Barrier Reef
will be dead by 2050’
Australia’s wonder of the world faces catastrophe
as sea temperatures rise......
SUNDAY
HERALD UK... |
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DAVID
SUZUKI slams Australia over attitude to global warming |
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Scottish skiing has met global
warming.
PLANET
ARK... |
| Replacing
Rainforests puts stress on native wildlife by habitat
removal |
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Devils fall victim to a hellish
disease
March 6, 2004
"The only thing that we can think of that's had a
bigger impact is the plague," said Mr Mooney, referring
to the disease that wiped out a third of Europe's population
in the Middle Ages. "When an American prairie dog
population gets a plague, there's a 100 per cent mortality."......
MELBOURNE
AGE...
MORE...
....The devil should not suffer the fate of the extinct
Tasmanian Tiger...
TASMANIAN DEVIL GOES THROUGH HELL... |
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shoot the ducks too |
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March 6, 2004
Greens Opposition environment spokesman Nick McKim described
today as "a sad day for Tasmania's image and a sad
day for our native wildlife".....
HOBART
MERCURY...
Opening Of Duck Season ‘Sad For Tasmania’s
Image, Sad For Native Wildlife’
TAS
GREENS... |
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Tasmania...
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