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To: "UK Tree Care" <uktc@xxxxxx.tree-care.info>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:10 AM
Subject: RE: CO2

Nick Burke
Planning Officer - Arboriculture
Environmental Planning,
Development Services
Sheffield City Council,
Howden House
1 Union Street,
Sheffield,
S1 2SH
T: 0114 2734198
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nick.burke2@xxxxxxxxxx.gov.uk


-----Original Message-----
From: Julian Dunster [mailto:jadunster@xxxxxx.com]
Sent: 04 March 2008 16:56
To: UK Tree Care
Subject: Re: CO2


What a cheerful thread. At this stage it hardly matters whether the changes
are 'natural' or 'human induced.' They are upon us in a big way. Things you
don't see and perhaps don't hear about over there include:

- open waters at the north pole
- open waters in the high arctic to the extent that the north west passage
may soon be open and ice free year round (serious issues for Canadian
sovereignty)
- extensive collapse of permafrost in the arctic leading to huge changes in
infrastructure support
- massive pest outbeaks in the forests due to mild winters never before seen
in recored history. BC now has the largest pest outbreak in the world with
all of our pine forest ravaged by the Mountain pine beetle, and it has
crossed over the rockies and is moving into jack pine stands in N Alberta
- species shifts are starting to occur with animals and insects moving into
areas where they have not been seen before
- Greenland icecap collapsing at a rate of over 1 metre per month (it was
apparently once all forested, so should any of us live long enough, there
will be loads of work to be done looking at pollen cores)

I am sure part of the problem is simply too many people, requiring too many
products, and producing too many mountains of waste.

The sad part is, in my opinion, that the proletariat (for want of a better
tem) is being brain washed into fretting about personal carbon footprints
etc, while the elites continue to use up resources as they see fit (come to
N America and look at conspicuous consumption on a grand scale, though I
suppose you can go to Monaco etc for similar examples). No matter how much
most of us reduce our mileage travelled, or number of flights, or amount of
packing etc. it is largely trivial when compared to a few military flights,
or the amount of fuel consumed shuttling diplomats around trying to stop
wars or keep unwanted folks away from 'our' sources of fuel. PLanting trees
in cities is good for many reasons, but promoting them as carbon storage is
not one of them. I doubt we have enough land available anywhere to sequester
enough carbon to make a difference.

Still, not to worry. Gaia struggles on and may one day slough off the plague
known as humanity.

Right. I think I'll go and hug a tree now to make me feel better :) May even
use Mike's Thor hammer to tap out a tune.

jd



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