Canberra Times: Australia is clearing native vegetation at a rate that amounts to a $2.4 billion annual loss of stored carbon, a Senate climate change inquiry heard yesterday. ”We are still logging native vegetation at a rate of something like 60million tonnes of carbon a year,” CSIRO climate scientist Michael Raupach told the inquiry. Global climate change had reached a critical point where ”it feeds on itself” due to less carbon being absorbed by oceans and forests, Dr Raupach said. …