Wetlands could unleash "carbon bomb"
- added July 20, 2008
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In other words...respect mother nature!!!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming "carbon bomb" if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday.
Wetlands contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the carbon on Earth and about the same amount of carbon as is now in the atmosphere, the scientists said before an international conference linking wetlands and global warming.
If all the wetlands on the planet released the carbon they hold, it would contribute powerfully to the climate-warming greenhouse effect, said Paulo Teixeira, coordinator of the Pantanal Regional Environment Program in Brazil.
"We could call it the carbon bomb," Teixeira said by telephone from Cuiaba, Brazil, site of the conference. "It's a very tricky situation.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming "carbon bomb" if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday.
Wetlands contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the carbon on Earth and about the same amount of carbon as is now in the atmosphere, the scientists said before an international conference linking wetlands and global warming.
If all the wetlands on the planet released the carbon they hold, it would contribute powerfully to the climate-warming greenhouse effect, said Paulo Teixeira, coordinator of the Pantanal Regional Environment Program in Brazil.
"We could call it the carbon bomb," Teixeira said by telephone from Cuiaba, Brazil, site of the conference. "It's a very tricky situation.
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Combined with methane bomb, we may very well be boned.
But hey, at least big oil got their money, right? -
in Africa they have pockets of CO2 which sometimes surface and kill people through asphyxiation. They call it "Mazuka" which means "evil wind".
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- Dmitri_Molotov
- 2 months ago
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so wait, lemme get this strait...wetlands are important?!?
Duh.
Good to hear this info is getting to the masses but this isn't news, it's common sense.-
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- squidteeth
- 2 months ago
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This sounds like the plot of The Happening to me. Creepy.
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- vitalmaggi
- 2 months ago
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Alot of people takes wetland lightly. Thousand of acres have been destroyed in the name development. By the time we realised, its too late...
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