Monday, January 07, 2008
About those rain forests
It sounds like this "serious problem" may not be what it is publicized to be.
At the least, more study time is surely needed, before we a judgement came be made with any certainty...
At the least, more study time is surely needed, before we a judgement came be made with any certainty...
According to this article at ScienceDaily.com:
"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 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.'"
