{"id":408718,"date":"2025-10-17T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=408718"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:58:44","slug":"100000-amazon-trees-chopped-down-to-build-road-for-cop30-climate-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=408718","title":{"rendered":"100,000 Amazon Trees Chopped Down to Build Road for COP30 Climate Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"408723\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=408723\" 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srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMxcDaMld4z_7i4_PofNDJpOEDJ8JJ_hee-OZqpwCs7sKIZXXVdHxnugmd8CblvTtWqJ2EYTAyiIhC1VTWx5PG68XYSZrEAH1bbg88qKnuwVfTocPCXzUjbdcPGwXgELT6VJq9T1uXh8XE334k6BlwgQajb0Q-1.png?resize=576%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMxcDaMld4z_7i4_PofNDJpOEDJ8JJ_hee-OZqpwCs7sKIZXXVdHxnugmd8CblvTtWqJ2EYTAyiIhC1VTWx5PG68XYSZrEAH1bbg88qKnuwVfTocPCXzUjbdcPGwXgELT6VJq9T1uXh8XE334k6BlwgQajb0Q-1.png?resize=169%2C300&amp;ssl=1 169w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMxcDaMld4z_7i4_PofNDJpOEDJ8JJ_hee-OZqpwCs7sKIZXXVdHxnugmd8CblvTtWqJ2EYTAyiIhC1VTWx5PG68XYSZrEAH1bbg88qKnuwVfTocPCXzUjbdcPGwXgELT6VJq9T1uXh8XE334k6BlwgQajb0Q-1.png?resize=768%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMxcDaMld4z_7i4_PofNDJpOEDJ8JJ_hee-OZqpwCs7sKIZXXVdHxnugmd8CblvTtWqJ2EYTAyiIhC1VTWx5PG68XYSZrEAH1bbg88qKnuwVfTocPCXzUjbdcPGwXgELT6VJq9T1uXh8XE334k6BlwgQajb0Q-1.png?w=810&amp;ssl=1 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/10\/16\/100000-amazon-trees-chopped-down-to-build-road-for-cop30-climate-conference\/#comments\">The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/author\/chris-morrison\/\">Chris Morrison<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"350\" data-attachment-id=\"408726\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=408726\" 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src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0Screenshot-2025-10-15-155812.jpeg?resize=723%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Aerial view of a cleared path in the Amazon rainforest with exposed soil and construction activity, showing the impact of road development.\" class=\"wp-image-408726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0Screenshot-2025-10-15-155812.jpeg?resize=1024%2C496&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0Screenshot-2025-10-15-155812.jpeg?resize=300%2C145&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0Screenshot-2025-10-15-155812.jpeg?resize=768%2C372&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0Screenshot-2025-10-15-155812.jpeg?resize=1536%2C744&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0Screenshot-2025-10-15-155812.jpeg?resize=1200%2C581&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0Screenshot-2025-10-15-155812.jpeg?resize=930%2C450&amp;ssl=1 930w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0Screenshot-2025-10-15-155812.jpeg?w=1748&amp;ssl=1 1748w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0Screenshot-2025-10-15-155812.jpeg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spare a thought for the BBC\u2019s Justin Rowlatt as he considers his upcoming trip to the Brazilian city of Bel\u00e9m to report on COP30. Saving the world and its environment is his gig so how will he face the prospect of travelling down a new four-lane highway cut through the dense Amazon rainforest to help speed him and his 70,000 other political activists to their luxury hotels? Based on trees per acre, an estimated 100,000 mature specimens have been chopped down and logged to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c9vy191rgn1o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">build the eight-mile&nbsp;<em>Avenida Liberdade<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;causing untold disruption to local wildlife. Happily, all is not lost in despair. If he wishes, the BBC\u2019s activist-in-chief can consider recent findings published in&nbsp;<em>Nature Plants<\/em>&nbsp;that increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide have led to substantial growth in the remaining Amazon forest, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41477-025-02097-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mature trees growing by over 6% a decade<\/a>. Perhaps he could start promoting on the BBC the enormous benefits of CO<sub>2<\/sub>, rightly known as the gas of life. He could front a campaign to assuage his dented COP conscience along the lines: \u2018Forward with Carbon Dioxide, not Chainsaws.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Needless to say, the fatter trees of the Amazon have received little publicity in narrative-driven mainstream media. Extensive Green Blob-funded grooming is deployed to keep this type of inconvenient global \u2018greening\u2019 material out of the papers. Little mention is made of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailysceptic.org\/2025\/06\/06\/global-greening-from-higher-co2-hits-striking-new-heights-but-the-mainstream-media-wont-tell-you-about-it\/\">astonishing CO<sub>2<\/sub>-fuelled growth<\/a>\u00a0in global vegetation seen across the planet in the last 40 years. Increases of around 15% are common, some deserts have started to shrink, and world famine has been alleviated by higher crop yields. SciLine is connected with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, publisher of\u00a0<em>Science<\/em>, and it recently suggested that writers head off the \u2018greening\u2019 story by noting that \u201cin many cases, CO<sub>2\u00a0<\/sub>disproportionately favours\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciline.org\/climate\/climate-change\/agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weeds over crops<\/a>, causing more problems for agriculture\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2022 Rowlatt authored an alarmist series on BBC Radio 4 and World Service called&nbsp;<em>The Climate Tipping Points<\/em>&nbsp;in which he highlighted the potential \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/brand\/m00180cc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">collapse of the Amazon rainforest<\/a>\u201d as one of the major irreversible changes tiggered by global warming. Not yet, it seems, for while Rowlatt was spouting this computer model agitprop, the scientists out in the field preparing their recently published paper found \u201caggressive changes\u201d in mature tropical forest biomass. Yet again, it might be noted, climate model predictions fail the test when confronted with actual scientific data. As MIT Emeritus Professor Richard Lindzen has said about the evidence-lite climate dogma: \u201cThe narrative is a quasi-religious movement predicated on an absurd scientific narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team of researchers found that over 30 years of Amazonian plant data records across 188 mature forest plots, the trees had become considerably larger over time. The basal area, the size of the tree trunk near ground level, increased by 3.3% a decade. Trees fight for light and space in close proximity and height, and size are an obvious advantage. While the larger trees were found to increase by over 6% a decade, the smaller plants also thrived, suggesting, the scientists note, that any recent negative climatic influences have been \u201cmore than alleviated\u201d by the positive effects of increased resources such as CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0fertilisation. In effect the smaller trees operating in more difficult low light conditions can use the extra CO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0to photosynthesise more easily and survive for longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an article published in&nbsp;<em>Watts Up With That?<\/em>, Anthony Watts was clear on the important findings of the paper. It\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2025\/10\/01\/the-amazons-co%E2%82%82-problem-turns-out-the-trees-love-it-so-does-the-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plain old plant biology<\/a>\u201d he said, adding: \u201cCO<sub>2<\/sub>&nbsp;fertilisation is no longer a theory tested only in labs. This study confirms it at continental scale: Amazon forest are thriving, not suffering, in a world with more CO<sub>2<\/sub>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s likely&nbsp;that the&nbsp;<em>Guardian<\/em>&nbsp;will be assembling a team to travel the Avenida Liberdade Highway of Shame to attend the increasingly irrelevant COP Net Zero boondoggle. The newspaper recently reported that the big Amazon trees were more climate resistant \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/sep\/25\/study-shows-big-trees-in-amazon-more-climate-resistant-than-previously-believed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">than previously believed<\/a>\u201d, proving that the \u2018reverse ferret\u2019 is alive and well in media land. \u201cPreviously believed\u201d, of course, only applies&nbsp;to those who are unaware of the&nbsp;paleo record stretching back hundreds of millions of years. Perhaps it was a first for&nbsp;<em>Popular Mechanics<\/em>, which gave us its \u2018Amazon\u2019s Trees Are Weirdly Getting Bigger Every Decade,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/environment\/a68063023\/amazon-bigger-trees-climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Which Defies Logic<\/a>\u2018. Might be best not to give up the day writing job here. Finally, and perhaps scraping the barrel for any coverage of this important paper,&nbsp;<em>NBC News<\/em>&nbsp;noted the view of one scientist that fattening trees is \u201cin some ways\u201d a positive news story. \u201cBut it also means that the forest is now more vulnerable to losing those trees.\u201d The obvious&nbsp;statement was then made that any benefit in larger trees sizes \u201ccan be quite easily negated by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/latin-america\/amazon-rainforest-giant-trees-bigger-carbon-dioxide-climate-change-rcna234064#:~:text=Climate%20in%20Crisis-,Giant%20trees%20of%20the%20Amazon%20get%20taller%20as%20forests%20fatten,size%20and%20number%20as%20well.%22&amp;text=The%20giants%20of%20the%20Amazon%20are%20getting%20even%20bigger.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deforestation and logging<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something all those virtuous delegates to COP30 might just know something about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Chris Morrison is the<\/em>&nbsp;Daily Sceptic<em>\u2019s Environment Editor. Follow&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CMorrisonEsq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>him on X<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spare a thought for the BBC\u2019s Justin Rowlatt as he considers his upcoming trip to the Brazilian city of Bel\u00e9m to report on COP30. Saving the world and its environment is his gig so how will he face the prospect of travelling down a new four-lane highway cut through the dense Amazon rainforest to help speed him and his 70,000 other political activists to their luxury hotels? Based on trees per acre, an estimated 100,000 mature specimens have been chopped down and logged to build the eight-mile Avenida Liberdade causing untold disruption to local wildlife. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":408726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"Discover the impact of COP30 on the Amazon rainforest, where 100,000 trees were cut for a new highway amidst claims of forest growth due to CO2.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Amazon Deforestation: Building COP30 Roads Costs 100,000 Trees","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691821611,691818389,691829997,691819134,691821283,691819097,691825842,691838276,691818087,691822002],"class_list":["post-408718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amazon-rainforest","tag-bbc","tag-carbon-dioxide-co","tag-climate-alarmism","tag-climate-editor-justin-rowlatt","tag-climate-hypocrisy","tag-co2-fertilisation","tag-cop30-climate-summit-in-brazil","tag-global-warming","tag-green-blob","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0Screenshot-2025-10-15-155812.jpeg?fit=1748%2C847&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Ike","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":369832,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=369832","url_meta":{"origin":408718,"position":0},"title":"COP30\u2019s Amazon Highway: Hypocrisy Paved with Virtue Signaling","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/14\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The BBC has uncovered a jaw-dropping irony in Brazil\u2019s preparations for the COP30 climate summit, set for November 2025 in Bel\u00e9m: a four-lane highway, Avenida Liberdade, is being bulldozed through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest. 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For that reason I shall not be attending the upcoming COP30 conference in the Brazilian city of Bel\u00e9m. 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