Facebook Twitter Pinterest A trail through the Tongass national forest, where Trump proposed allowing logging. Photograph: Rafe HansonThe emails add to concerns that the Trump administration is doing industry’s bidding rather than pursuing the public interest. On the contrary, logging could negate the ability of forests to absorb carbon dioxide humans are emitting at record rates. “The comparison of fire to electrical emissions [in California] was not explained or justified”, said Harmon, the Oregon State University scientist. “As wildfire experts have repeatedly explained, you can’t log or even ‘rake’ our way out of this mess,” O’Neill said.

Source: The Guardian January 24, 2020 07:52 UTC