Global warming the Siberia effect? Deforestation

[oldcolner]

A serious Saturday topic - maybe off topic

Just watched Simon Reeves trip across Russia part 1 and he showed in several locations in the east how global warming was impacting there. I had no idea of the vastness of Russia with one train the Trans Siberian Express going through 7 time zones.
40% of Russia is built on permafrost and in several locations in Siberia this is melting sufficiently to damage foundations of buildings, with them leaning and collapsing. Another location showed a massive sink hole which had recently been created miles across and hundreds of feet deep and was growing at 15 metres a year.
Siberia is mostly forest and one part of that the size of India is being deforested at at rate of an area the size of Wales each year. They are not replanting. It is shipped to China to be made into things for the West. The Russian FSB (exKGB ) were sensitive to him filming the lorries full of trees and followed him, took his driver off for tests took their passports away and transported him onto the train after holding him on several occasions.
The points he made were
As trees convert carbon dioxide into oxygen the more we deforest the more CO2 levels rise. He also explained that Permafrost traps massive amounts of methane which is worse than CO2 at global warming. The faster ithe permafrost melts the greater the methane released and the greater becomes the global warming problem.
Deforestation is also happening in the Amazon and Malaysia Indonesia etc.
So all this stuff about coal and diesel is a side issue. Russia will be sinking to a hole of its own making and taking us with it.
Maybe they should send Trump to Siberia.