This, of course, goes counter to just about every trend here in the United States, where we are encouraged to go-it-alone more and more with each passing year and, in fact, the automatic federal budget cuts caused by the continuing sequestration are causing cuts to services ranging from Head Start to Meals on Wheels.
In light of the continuing sequestration fight, the minutes of one National Security Council meeting in 1960, the last year of Eisenhower's administration, give an idea of what he might have thought of the current morass: "He believed it was the duty of military officers to get along with less if at all possible.
Reducing forest area loss can affect forest carbon dynamics through two pathways: 1) reducing carbon emissions to the atmosphere, and 2) continued sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere over time.
We specifically address the issue of net carbon sequestration, including the continued carbon sequestration of the original natural vegetation.
Temperate forests have functioned as significant sinks of atmospheric carbon dioxide CO2 over the last few decades, but their capacity for continued carbon sequestration is uncertain [1, 2].
Although Congress is on summer break, focus continues on sequestration's damage and how federal programs, such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development's homelessness assistance and Housing Choice Vouchers, will be funded in the new budget.
In recent months, as the U.S. House of Representatives voted to end food stamps for the poor, continued the sequestration that slashed meals for sick and homebound seniors, and moved toward ending Saturday mail delivery, it rejected a 1percentt cut in military spending and, then, voted for a national defense authorization that provided for billions of dollars more than the Pentagon requested.
For proof of this phenomenon, one need look no further than the continuing furor over sequestration — the automatic cuts, evenly divided between Pentagon and nonsecurity spending, that will go into effect in January if a deal on the debt and deficits isn't reached.
Besides the share of BGB in whole tree forest biomass, BGB happens to be a unique carbon pool because after exploitation, the root system, along with the stump, are left in the forest and, in some tree species, are then allowed to sprout, continuing the carbon sequestration process or decompose, releasing CO2 and nutrients.
The budgetary mania continued through the sequestration and refusal to compromise with President Obama even after he put the liberal sacred cow of Social Security on the table.
If sequestration continues beyond this fiscal year, Links and others worry the situation will become even more dire.
