The Earth Observatory data, combined with models, has shown that, just as most politics is local, so is most pollution.
In keeping up with that idea, here is an article showing that trees are important sinks, and ultimately when they die, sources of
carbon dioxide. Which means, of course, that we have to replant the trees that are lost through storms or through harvesting. It also means that we have to plant the kind of trees that can properly survive in such an environment, such as cypress-tupelo. We also really need to listen to the scientists that have been telling us how important it is to allow the Mississippi to move around again, a process that deposited silt, which in turn created a protective solid and biological barrier to the the destructive forces and tidal surges of the gulf during storms.
Here is an image of the Niagara Falls from Space from Nasa’s Earth Observatory.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackThe NASA Earth Observatory is answering some important questions regarding the effects of humans and natural occurrences on the environment. It seems to have overturned the common notion that a lot of our pollution, particularly on the west coast, is blown over from China. From this new study we have to mostly blame ourselves for this. But it also means that we can control the production of it, which is good news.
It’s amazing that 300 million trees were destroyed in Katrina and the effect on the US CO2 atmospheric concentration is so large from this event.