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No convincing evidence for decline in tropical forests
Claims that tropical forests are declining cannot be backed up by hard evidence, according to new research from the University of Leeds.
This major challenge to conventional thinking is the surprising finding of a study published today in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences by Dr Alan Grainger, Senior Lecturer in Geography and one of the world’s leading experts on tropical deforestation.
“Every few years we get a new estimate of the annual rate of tropical deforestation,” said Dr Grainger. “They always seem to show that these marvellous forests have only a short time left. Unfortunately, everybody assumes that deforestation is happening and fails to look at the bigger picture – what is happening to forest area as a whole.”
In the first attempt for many years to chart the long-term trend in tropical forest area, he spent more than three years going through all available United Nations data with a fine toothcomb – and found some serious problems.
“The errors and inconsistencies I have discovered in the area data raise too many questions to provide convincing support for the accepted picture of tropical forest decline over the last 40 years,” he said. “Scientists all over the world who have used these data to make predictions of species extinctions and the role of forests in global climate change will find it helpful to revisit their findings in the light of my study.”
Remember that once all of the trees in the Amazonian jungle, i.e. tropical rain forest, are cut down, NOTHING EVER GROWS BACK THERE AGAIN. That is the rule of the evironmentalists. Just like the entire continent of Europe has been denuded of trees for 2000 years of tree cutting and the entire eastern half of the USA has never had a single tree, plant or shrub grow to replace the trees that have been cut down since the “dreaded white man” arrived there around 1100 AD. I just checked my back yard and there are no trees growing there to replace the one I cut down 4 years ago. Of course I am ignoring all of the little oak trees that sprout up in the lawn from the acorns and get mowed down.
I’ve long wondered why the Amazon rain forest hasn’t become a desert based upon the environmentalists warnings that there are no trees left there. And, of course, they ignore evidence that the areas the uncivilized native tribes that have clear cut areas before the Spanish arrived, have all been reclaimed by the Amazon rain forest.