Comments on: Sacrificing Cultures on the Climate Change Altar http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/07/25/sacrificing-cultures-on-the-climate-change-altar/ where nature and culture meet Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:20:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Steve Bloom http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/07/25/sacrificing-cultures-on-the-climate-change-altar/comment-page-1/#comment-588 Steve Bloom Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:20:23 +0000 http://www.collide-a-scape.com/?p=1270#comment-588 I see you haven't been following this issue.  See <a href="http://www.globalcarbonproject.org/global/pdf/pep/Post2006/Gullison.2007.DeforestationAll.Science.pdf" rel="nofollow">here</a>.  The upshot:  "The interaction between global climate change and regional deforestation may make Amazonian forests vulnerable to large-scale degradation.  Ironically, it is also this linkage between the global (carbon sequestering) ecosystem service, for which the world may be more willing to pay, and regional (transpiration) services that maintain the region   ’s climate that provides an opportunity to sustain the climatic resilience of Amazonia while contributing toward its conservation and development."   I see you haven’t been following this issue.  See here.  The upshot: 
“The interaction between global climate change and regional deforestation may make Amazonian forests vulnerable to large-scale degradation.  Ironically, it is also this linkage between the global (carbon sequestering) ecosystem service, for which the world may be more willing to pay, and regional (transpiration) services that maintain the region

 

’s climate that provides an opportunity to sustain the climatic resilience of Amazonia while contributing toward its conservation and development.”
 

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