RE: Boreal Forests Burn!!

["Kevin Chisholm" <kchishol@fox.nstn.ca>]

Dear Denny

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Denny Haldeman [mailto:denny@voyageronline.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 6:15 PM
> To: Joseph Zorzin
> Cc: Currie, Brian ELP:EX; 'Kevin Chisholm'; Bioenergy
> Subject: Re: Boreal Forests Burn!!
>
>
> There has also been documentation of reforestation failures in
> those figid forests
> from excessive canopy removals. From what I've heart in the
> distant past, the
> young seedlings are sensitive to frost damage and cannot
> re-establish forests.

OK.... if the forests are removed because of Global Warming, then the area
will be warm enough for the seedlings to survive and reforest the area.

  It
> could be the equivalent of freeze induced desertification..would
> be interested in
> hearing more.

If there is Global Warming, then it could also spped up the rate of growth
of Boreal Forests, so that they would become far more active as carbon
sinks.

 Also most tree species cannot possibly migrate as
> fast as the new
> global warming regime challenges them to do.

Could not we transplant areas of land on the southerly fringe of the
advancing regime, to overcome this concern? Would that perhaps be a n
economically sounder, and more certain move?

Combined with
> decimation of seed
> disbursing species

Which seed disbursing species are being decimated?

>we may be doing exponential decline damages.

On the other hand, we may not. We see Global Temperatures and CO2 levels
rising in what indeed appears to be exponential, but are there any
exponential consequences showing up so far?

> We are no longer
> in  geologic time..more like human-anti-logic time.  Denny
>
OK.... so things are happening rapidly. Are there any deadly and
irrecoverable consequences that will endanger us, our children, our
Grandchildren? Just how will life be seriously different for succeeding
Generations?

Kevin Chisholm


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