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originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Blowback
Your source.
The scientists and forest experts I spoke with put it this way: If the Amazon loses enough trees, it will reach a tipping point, transforming from lush ecosystem into a semiarid savanna. The implications would be global. And rich nations aren’t generous enough to fund the preservation of tropical forests without getting something in return.
Good point.
features.propublica.org...
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Blowback
I read it.
The conclusion is the conclusion, the summary. I have mixed impressions about carbon credits being effective, this article provided more information.
originally posted by: Blowback
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: Blowback
I read it.
The conclusion is the conclusion, the summary. I have mixed impressions about carbon credits being effective, this article provided more information.
You read it hear first, the conclusion was to follow the money ...
The programs largely avoided credits for forest preservation, in which a polluter pays a landowner to reduce deforestation. The science was too complicated. How are we to know which trees were saved because of such projects, and which would have survived without them?
originally posted by: [post=24544006]Phage
Here.
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
I had some pictures and video saved - basically screen caps of google earth from the time of around 2010-2012 and it showed what looked like a biblical flood in the Amazon, and the devestation left behind afterwards. Much of the area surrounding the river was red, maybe from mud? The images showed the river at 40-60 miles wide over lengths 300-500 miles long. I had 2 hard drives crash while I was backing one up & both were taken out somehow and I lost these pics/videos.. So that is why I'm trying to figure out where older sat images might be available.
I remember looking at the map and also trying to find anything on the flooding in Brazil but there wasn't a word of it mentioned online, but the satellite imagery was up for over a year of the same devastation in the Amazon, possibly for 2 years before it was updated. IDK the exact days the images were taken, Google earth doesn't allow you to see that info like they used to as they are much more manipulative than they used to be where you could search all their images, scroll through images going back 40+ years, where now you are stuck with the newest.
Shouldn't all these satellite imagery be freely available to the tax payers? Wasn't it our tax $$ that developed the rockets to launch the satellites and also develop the satellites as well as maintain them? I don't want to hear the BS about hosing costs for images either, that certainly isn't a billion $ + per year...
originally posted by: DigginFoTroof
I had some pictures and video saved - basically screen caps of google earth from the time of around 2010-2012 and it showed what looked like a biblical flood in the Amazon, and the devestation left behind afterwards. Much of the area surrounding the river was red, maybe from mud? The images showed the river at 40-60 miles wide over lengths 300-500 miles long. I had 2 hard drives crash while I was backing one up & both were taken out somehow and I lost these pics/videos.. So that is why I'm trying to figure out where older sat images might be available.
I remember looking at the map and also trying to find anything on the flooding in Brazil but there wasn't a word of it mentioned online, but the satellite imagery was up for over a year of the same devastation in the Amazon, possibly for 2 years before it was updated. IDK the exact days the images were taken, Google earth doesn't allow you to see that info like they used to as they are much more manipulative than they used to be where you could search all their images, scroll through images going back 40+ years, where now you are stuck with the newest.
Shouldn't all these satellite imagery be freely available to the tax payers? Wasn't it our tax $$ that developed the rockets to launch the satellites and also develop the satellites as well as maintain them? I don't want to hear the BS about hosing costs for images either, that certainly isn't a billion $ + per year...
t is the Big One......yes they have erased the images you saw before....and no you might not find them again...
..look up the Vlar Global Continental Displacement Wave..