There may be many reasons for not clearfelling the Amazon basin but using global warming as an argument is spurious. The real key to the global warming crisis is Phytoplankton. These microscopic green plants that float in the oceans of the world. They are capable of binding extremely large quanitities of CO2, which is the main contributing factor to the looming global warming crisis.

The trouble is that to do this they need iron, which can be in short supply in the worlds oceans, in spite of the number of battle ships that we so conveniently sunk during that last world cufuffle.

Alfred Wegener Institute of the Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany is experimenting with "seeding" with large qualities of iron to promote the Phytoplankton's ability to bind CO2. This just the first step, the Phytoplankton then have to die and sink to the ocean floor, which seems a bit of a big ask. There is also the problem of the collossal distruption to the ocean ecology that may have a dramatic and negative impact on many species.

The Green Man is not buying any property on Kiribati just yet.