New Direction

Effective today this blog's new purpose is to rant about environmental issues and create a voice for my environmental theories.

Last week the area in which I live suffered Mother Nature's wrath. There were severe thunderstorms that knocked out power to over 100,000 homes. It took days to get power restored. While driving around over the holiday [4th of July for those of you not in the United States] weekend the sound of chainsaws filled the air. It occurred to me that not only were downed trees being cut up for removal but people were cutting down trees that were not damaged in the storm.

The tree trimming/removal business was booming but at the expense of the wondrous carbon reducing flora. Huge trees were coming down and all of the carbon that they had been storing for years will begin reentering the atmosphere. Like the trees that were in the path of Hurricane Katrina. In that extreme case the carbon reentering the atmosphere equaled 60 to 100 percent of the carbon that is taken out of the atmosphere annually by trees in the United States.

Obviously the impact on global warming from the storm in my neck of the woods will not be as huge as Hurricane Katrina but it does not help in the least.

Plant some trees!