[MCN] Forest and climate: A recent trend, a near-term forecast

[Lance Olsen]

"While carbon stocks in US forests have 
continually expanded since the 1940s, the 
expansion has shown signs of contraction.
<< https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2010_ryan_m002.pdf>>

"The most recent forecast 
<<https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr272.pdf>> 
of the nation's forest future suggests that, in 
aggregate, forests will transition from being a 
net carbon sink to a significant source of 
emissions by 2030."

"The first driver of carbon sink loss -- 
large-scale disturbance events such as megafires 
and insect infestations in the West -- received 
ample media coverage due to their shock value. 
Even so, the press has largely missed the real 
story about the conclusive links science has made 
between these events and climate change."

Excerpted from:   Ecosystem Marketplace  21 January 2017
How US Land Owners Can Tap Carbon Markets In Trump Era
Brian Kittler
http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/articles/how-us-land-owners-can-tap-carbon-markets-in-trump-era/

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"Real estate website Trulia.com recently reported 
that slightly more than half of Americans say 
that 1,400 to 2,600 square feet would be their 
ideal home size. According to the NAHB, nine of 
10 builders are planning or constructing smaller 
homes than in the past.

In 2010, the average new home size dropped to 
2,377 square feet and by 2015, the average newly 
built home is predicted to measure just 2,140 
square feet. Even in more affluent areas, 
builders are beginning to construct model homes 
that are one-third smaller than what they were 
building just a few years ago.

" 'Small is beautiful' is back in vogue," remarks 
Andrew Gates, a Sotheby's International Realty 
real estate broker in Salisbury, Connecticut. 
'The simplicity aesthetic is more prevalent after 
what we've been through the past few years.'"

http://www.naturalawakeningsmag.com/Natural-Awakenings/November-2012/House-Happiness/

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" Š. the earth's atmosphere is so thoroughly 
mixed and so rapidly recycled through the 
biosphere that the next breath you inhale will 
contain atoms exhaled by Jesus at Gethsemane and 
Adolf Hitler at Munich."

Preston Cloud and Aharon Gibor. "The Oxygen Cycle."
Scientific American, September 1970

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