Most of Europe’s original natural #forests have been transformed for agriculture and managed forests producing energy, paper and timber.

The few remaining “old-growth” natural forests are relics of the past that illustrate how forests would have looked in the absence of human management.

Most Swedish forests are so-called #boreal forests.

This type of coniferous woodland #ecosystem encompasses most of the northern regions of the planet.

After mapping and measuring the most natural old-growth forests in Sweden, scientists found that they differ much more from managed forests than previously thought, even if some of those managed forests looked old.

Old-growth forests store 78-89% more #carbon than managed forests do, a difference in carbon storage larger than Sweden’s cumulative emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels since 1834.

These new results underscores the much larger carbon storage benefits that flow from protecting forests than using them to produce bioenergy and wood products.

#climate #nature #ecology #biological
https://theconversation.com/swedens-old-growth-natural-forests-store-83-more-carbon-than-managed-woodlands-new-study-277150

It is quite astonishing to me how much AI adoption is being driven by literal FOMO.

Devs don't want to miss the boat, lest they become obsolete. Not really doing it for you? That's a skill issue, try harder.

Managers/execs pushing AI through forced mandates, lest they fall behind the competition. Not getting the expected results? It's ok, we're learning. Push harder, set token quotas, do internal hackatons.

Policy makers and investors chasing the next growth engine. Do whatever it takes to stimulate their own local AI industry. Capture the market, returns will come later.

Tomorrow's St Patrick's day, but we've been chasing that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for a while now.

Browser extension idea. Any time you go to access a URL with utm_source, it replaces it with utm_source=fediverse.

Feel free to steal that and make it real.