Dear Stovers Crispin has drawn attention to the "horror finding" that significant amounts of organic carbon are finding their way into the oceans.
It is fun teasing these people. Were they aware that fire is a major part of forest regeneration? Indeed, some seeds require smoke in the moisture they receive in order to germinate. Did they know that the deforestation of the US, that took place between 1850 and 1920, was of the same size as the Amazon Basin? Some 30 years ago I studied 'waldsterben' in the Harz Mountains. By soil sampling we found that every 150 years or so, the floor of the forest had burned - but when we sampled it, it was 200 years since the last burn, and the trees were now dying from old age. Man had not wished to live with forest fires, and had put them out, so the forests had aged unnaturally, and 'waldsterben' had nothing to do with acid rain, and everything to do with man not understanding Nature. Is it a disaster that carbon now enters rivers and goes to the sea? Laugh, and the world laughs with you! Philip Lloyd _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://stoves.bioenergylists.org/
