Sentences with phrase «peat cutting»

And you're going with Gavin on this, because, despite these ugly numbers, despite the graph that's level for centuries before going hyperbolic in the 20th Century, despite the obvious impossibility of meaningful calibration 1850 - 1995, despite the chapter - and - verse of roadbuilding, peat cutting, farming, bridge reconstruction, and eutrophication — I used the word «absolutely.»

None of the four Tiljander proxies used in Mann08 can be meaningfully calibrated to the instrumental temperature record, the result of progressive contamination of any climate signals during the 19th and 20th centuries by local activities (farming, peat cutting, road building, bridge reconstruction, lake eutrophication).

«Scientist» seems to agree with Gavin on this, because, despite these ugly numbers, despite the graph that's level for centuries before going hyperbolic in the 20th Century, despite the obvious impossibility of meaningful calibration 1850 - 1995, despite the chapter - and - verse description in Tiljander03 of roadbuilding, peat cutting, farming, bridge reconstruction, and eutrophication — I used the word «absolutely.»

Written by a commission of 25 biologists and industrialists brought together by conservation bodies, it calls on the government to revoke all planning permission for peat cutting on bogs with conservation value, and to pay compensation where due.

Increasingly, gardeners and retailers are joining forces with conservationists in opposing peat cutting.

It concludes that the government's own guidelines for conserving endangered ecosystems, through the designation of sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs), require that peat cutting should halt.

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This encouraged the spread of organic soils and peat at the same time that it cut off access between Asia and Alaska.»

But permission to cut the peat was granted largely in the 1950s and 1960s, before the system of creating SSSIs was introduced, leaving conservation bodies helpless to intervene.

But on the other side of the road that bisects the moor lies a further 2500 hectares, a wasteland of bare peat that Fisons will be allowed to continue cutting until there is just half a metre of peat remaining — provided that there is a market for its product.

Modern mechanised methods of harvesting peat, known as peat milling, are far more destructive that old methods of cutting, says the commission.

But only on condition that Fisons is allowed to continue cutting over a large area until most of the peat has gone.

Planted bogs tend to be easier to restore than bogs that have been cut for peat — which often need pumps to maintain their water levels.

To extract each barrel of oil from a surface mine, the industry must first cut down the forest, then remove an average of two tons of peat and dirt that lie above the oil sands layer, then two tons of the sand itself.

When these trees are cut down or they burn, the peat soils underneath are exposed, releasing carbon dioxide as the peat oxidizes and decomposes.

The cutting down of forests across the globe contributes a startling 20 percent of the world's annual greenhouse pollution through burning, gases released from deforested soil and smoldering peat, scientists say.

... He went on to say that wind turbines had devastated «the very wilderness that the «green blob» claims to love, with new access tracks cut deep into peat, boosted production of carbon - intensive cement, and driven up fuel poverty, while richly rewarding landowners».