Climate Change Reduction or ‘Green Global Welfare’? - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

They acknowledge that it will be hard to monitor whether people or companies are cutting down forests and jungles they have promised to preserve, or whether deforestation simply is shifting to unregulated areas. They also acknowledge that it will be hard to guarantee that promises made by one government to preserve forests will be respected by future landowners, governments or regimes.

In addition, the idea has triggered a furious response from groups that say that the developing world has a right to boost its economic development through forestry. They say that the World Bank, Australia, the European Union, Norway and environmental groups like WWF and Greenpeace are overlooking how better management of forests — rather than preserving forest stocks — may be the most effective way to reduce CO2 emissions.

Climate Research News » California Caught Cooking the Books on Climate Policy

All this so-called overwhelming evidence for a CO2 driven catastrophe, yet there still seems to be a need to deliberately exaggerate and mislead.