| Did you miss our General Meeting on Thursday March 26? At the meeting we screened the film from New England Forests "Old Growth Forests - Nature's Biotic Water Pump", which is available via the New England Forests Youtube channel and linked in full below: - For decades now, we've been hearing how greenhouse gases, particularly CO2, cause climate change. But what has been almost totally ignored is the effect that alteration of land cover has on our climate. It's not just about carbon.  Change to land cover, especially the cutting and removal of forests, is what western Mediterranean region researcher and Atmospheric Physicist Millán Millán referred to as "the second leg of climate change." The greenhouse gas effect is just one half of the climate change story; land cover change is the other half, and just as important. Millán Millán passed away in 2024, but we hear his words in the film thanks to audio from an interview with Alpha Lo of the Climate Water Project (on Substack), In this film, Russian Physicist Anastassia Makarieva, renowned for her continuing research on the critical role of forests in climate change, adds more information about the biotic pump mechanism, she is also on Substack. |
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Benalla Sustainable Future Group acknowledges the traditional owners of the land on which we live, work and meet, the Taungerang, Yorta Yorta and Bpangerang people of North East Victoria, and pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.