Interactions of Rainforests and Climate Change
Talk on Rainforest and Climate Followed by a Potluck Dinner
There is a positive feedback loop between climartic disruption and destructionof rainforests. Global heating causes droughts in rainforests, causing them to disappear. Drought also increases fires in rainforests. Rainforests draw carbon out of the atmosphere and store it. Cutting or burning rainforests causes them to add carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, to the air. Flooding them with large dams causes the release of methane, which is 80 times as powerful a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide. This feedback loop is causing rainforests to cross a tipping point whereby forest is replaced by savanna, which has much less biodiversity. This change in ecosystem is irreversible. The loss of biodiversity, medicines, and habitat will be tremendous. Rainforests are the most biodiverse ecosystem on Earth. Rainforests create large rivers in the sky that deliver water to distant ecosystems. The loss of rainforests will cause these sky rivers to disappear. These rivers deliver water to distant ecosystems and farms.
Please bring food for a potluck dinner after the talk. This will be a party with socializing, networking, and a chance to meet influential people and make new friends.
Signed copies of David Seaborg's books on his theory that all species make their environment better for life and increase biodiversity (number of species) in natural habitats (humans excluded), that organisms made Earth better for life (such as by regulating climate and creating Earth's high oxygen atmosphere), and that symbiosis is fundamental and far more important than currently accepted by biologists will be available for purchase. You will be able to meet David, the renowned biologist and founder and president of the World Rainforest Fund (worldrainforest.org).
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