K38e: Deforestation and Climate. Forests Being Cut Faster Than They Can Grow Tropical deforestation, as countries scramble to clear-cut and sell off their.

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K38e: Deforestation and Climate

Forests Being Cut Faster Than They Can Grow Tropical deforestation, as countries scramble to clear-cut and sell off their timber so they can grow cattle (and soybeans, sugar), accounts for nearly 20% of carbon emissions (Canadell et al. 2007).Canadell et al On Indonesia’s main island of Sumatra, home of the last Sumatran Rhinos, deforestation destroys 5 football fields worth of rainforest per minute. Forests remove ~2.4 billion tons of carbon from atmosphere per year (Canadell et al. 2011)Canadell et al Cessation of tropical forest cutting leads to rapid carbon uptake into new trees, and also into root systems underground An area the size of the UK is lost to deforestation every two years. Stopping this would cut billion tonnes of CO2 emissions each year, the UN says ( per cent of global emissions).global emissions

Deforestation: Produces about ¼ or 25% as much CO2 per year as fossil fuel burning

Regrowth can soak up Carbon

For Tropical Forests Generally…

Causes of Amazon deforestation: mostly cattle ranches due to demand from rapid proliferation of fast food outlets world wide

So far, 60% of “Cerrado” land is converted to Agriculture, and 10% of the “Forest” Land

Effects of Deforested Land on Climate 1. Carbon burned or otherwise put back into the atmosphere as CO2 2. Loss of photosynthesis = loss of ability to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere 3. Healthy forest returns ¾ of rainfall back to the atmosphere where it can rain out elsewhere. Deforested land returns only ¼ of rain water back to the atmosphere for further downwind rainmaking, instead causing severe runoff, erosion, loss of topsoil, and loss of all to the ocean 4. Leading to: Lost Forests convert to desert or shrub, since tropical soils generally poor.

Boreal Deforestation Boreal forests are 30% of the Earth’s forests The far north of Canada, Alaska, and Eurasia has conifer forests under stress This ecosystem is not evolved to handle +10C average temperature rise which they face, as Arctic temperatures rising 2-3 times faster than global land temperatures Wildfires rising steeply due to hotter temperature-induced drying, spreading ash over Greenland, accelerating melt there.

Boreal: Only 30% of Forests, but 59% of the carbon storage, due to the vast carbon stored in the permafrost and other Boreal soils

21 st Century rapidly accelerating Arctic Ocean loss is heating the Arctic faster than anywhere else on Earth, and so Boreal forests showing steepest loss.

Competing effect: Melting permafrost allowing tree line to migrate north This would sequester additional carbon, perhaps (except for the carbon release from the permafrost melting which permits this march northward). But, this is very slow, and is being dwarfed by the losses due to fires, insect-induced death, ecosystem loss, logging Tree line migration is only 0.1 kilometers per decade. Source

Key Points: K38e - Deforestation Deforestation takes out an area half the size of the England, Scotland, and Ireland every year Deforestation CO2 in 1990’s was ¼ of that contributed by Fossil Fuel burning Cutting trees in tropics is the worst for climate: reduces rainfall, causes desertification. Brazil is the worst offender by far Prime reason for deforestation: cattle ranches for meat (mostly for fast-food outlets). Boreal forests showing steepest losses, due to fastest climate change. Hold 60% of Earth’s forest carbon