In Praise of Peat Bogs

[farmerbarleymow]

Like marshes, peat bogs are an integral part of the landscape, especially in Northern latitudes. The UK and Ireland have 20% of the world's area apparently.

If peat bogs dissappeared the concentration of CO2 would increase by two thirds.

Peat bogs

Explore the magical and beautiful world of peat bogs.

www.wwt.org.uk

Peat bogs and environmental change | UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Peat bogs ‘tougher than we thought’ but may still be vulnerable to rapid or extreme environmental changePlant communities in European peat bogs are affected by environmental change, but their ecological functioning remains intact.If all peat bogs in the world were to disappear, the amount of CO2...

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[RedRedRose]

If peat bogs dissappeared the concentration of CO2 would increase by two thirds.

My understanding is, they are also subject to releasing CO2 based on a threshold temperature. Which means their carbon release could be part of runaway climate change scenario along with innumerable other things if we fail to bring the temperature down this century.

 

[JimW]

Great places to hide your Iron Age human sacrifice, noone would ever find them...

 

[Infidel Castro]

Peat. Stop burning it ya loons. Keep it where it should be. Let's have some biodiversity. Cheers. Back to the booze.

 

[nogojones]

Peat. Stop burning it ya loons. Keep it where it should be. Let's have some biodiversity. Cheers. Back to the booze.

It does make the nicest fires though and its great days out cutting. Speaking to family back in Ireland, I think its been banned fairly recently.