Half of Papua New Guinea Forests Could Vanish

The news just keeps getting better and better:

Half of Papua New Guinea’s forests will be lost or damaged in just over a decade, speeding up local climate change, unless logging is dramatically reduced, a study released Monday found.

The University of Papua New Guinea report, which used satellite images to show the loss in forest cover between 1972 and 2002, found that at current rates, 53 percent of forest was at risk of being destroyed by 2021.

Read the full article here: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/02/new-guinea-forest.html

It still amazes me, after all of the data that comes from the scientific community, that people can even begin to question that Global Warming is a serious threat.  Or that they question whether or not humans have accelerated it!  It’s pretty obvious to me (and most of the credible scientific community) that humans have accelerated Global Warming through any number of activities…  like deforestation, for example.

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