Climate Letter #1508

Somaliland:  A Climate Timebomb (Thomson Reuters Foundation).  A fine documentary about a small republic, population 4 million, not recognized as a nation, that is one of the world’s most desperate situations, plagued by high and rising temperatures and fearsome drought.  According to one elderly lady, now living in a camp, “When I was young it was green, with forests everywhere, and people had enough livestock in every family that could be sold to buy anything they needed…”  The pastoral life had supported her family for generations.

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The forces behind Bolivia’s devastating wildfires (The Ecologist).  The author is a political scientist who has done his homework on the sometimes-strange partnerships that are now in control, and sees the consequences.  “In this light, we can see that the fires and deforestation that is occurring within Bolivia is matching up with global agricultural trends, where the agro-state alliance obeys the demands of the multinational food companies…”
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How Brazil’s deforestation could become ruinous for the nation’s farmers and economy as a whole (Mongabay).  The author tells of how the forest acts as a giant water pump, moving rainfall to places where it is badly needed, but would not reach without the overland pumping effect.
–The same author has previously written for Mongabay in more detail about how “a healthy and productive Amazon is necessary for a healthy and productive Brazilian economy.”
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Carbon emissions from the logging industry are far greater than recognized (New Scientist).  Independent studies have found that accounting rules differ from those of agriculture by failing to adopt a life-cycle approach, and are thus entirely inappropriate.  “If they were, Talberth says logging would turn out to be one of the top three or four sources of carbon emissions globally.”  It was also learned that switching to smarter industry practices could change the outcome in a highly positive way, turning the life cycle of lumber production from managed forests into a large carbon sink.

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Multiple efforts are underway seeking unconventional solutions to the climate change quandary (Business Insider).  This story has a review of eleven such strategies that are quite imaginative:
–Here are a few more ideas, from a lab at Stanford University:
Carl

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