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If Professor Curran is correct, it is the utmost lunacy wilfully to rip up and expose the peat of the Lewis moorland, when it is one of the world’s largest expanses of blanket bog and acts as a sink that stores carbon. Disturb the peatlands substantially and you release all that stored carbon back into the atmosphere as CO2. If this is “greenness” and “saving the planet” and “tackling climate change” in the eyes of developers and politicians, Lord help us.
October 12, 2006
by Colin N Maclean,Isle of Lewis
in The Herald
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency held a conference in Edinburgh on October 2 and 3 which brought together environmental experts to discuss the impact of global warming on Scotland. Among those experts was Dr James Curran, formerly head of environmental strategy at Sepa, a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society and an honorary professor at the University of Stirling.
Professor Curran said that greenhouse gases released from moorlands could make climate change irreversible. He said that moorland soil, which contains massive amounts of stored carbon, was drying up and eroding as temperatures rose, causing the release of carbon dioxide. “Potentially,... [continue via Web link]
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