Everything Causes Global Warming

Instead of Global Warming causing every disaster, now we have reports that environmental disasters cause Global Warming. Sounds reasonable, right? If we burn whole swathes of rain forests, we no longer have the biomass to scrub carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Did you know that Britain has "rain forests" and that they are being threatened by, wait for it, Grouse Hunting. According to an "ecology specialist" burning moorland vegetation to increase meadows of heather, which is the prime habitat for grouse, threatens the release of carbon dioxide from the peat bogs underneath due to decomposition and erosion. The specialist views the peat bogs as Britain's rain forest because of the tons of carbon storage. After we calm down from all the inflammatory language of burning down rain forests, we get one quote from the Moorland Association:

The Moorland Association, which was set up in 1987 to halt the loss of heather moorlands in Britain, has defended controlled burning by moorland keepers as necessary to get rid of over-mature heather.

"The fires are planned to move steadily with the wind, burning old growth while doing little more than scorching the ground below," it said, saying keepers were acutely aware of soil and weather conditions.

According to the ecologist's bio, he has no credentials in climate science, but he is active in conservation and preservation projects. Hmm... using global warmongering to scare people into leaving Gaia alone? Why, I've never seen that tactic before, how novel.