Posted on 04/10/2007 12:30:03 AM PDT by malamute
Original Title -- > Snowy forests 'increase warming'
Planting trees in snowy areas may worsen global warming as their canopies absorb sunlight which would otherwise be reflected by the snow, a study says.
The report in US journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says the pine forests of Europe, Siberia and Canada may contribute to warming.
Only tropical forests effectively cool the earth by absorbing carbon dioxide and creating clouds, the report says.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Oh, I'm a lumberjack, and I'm okay, I sleep all night and I work all day.
CHORUS: He's a lumberjack, and he's okay, He sleeps all night and he works all day.
I cut down trees, I eat my lunch, I go to the lavatory. On Wednesdays I go shoppin' And have buttered scones for tea.
I think Ford Prefect’s reply was, “You’re a bunch of raving nutters.”
Perhaps we should promote the crazy theories to the point of lunacy and push the evironwackos into a suicidal state.
OMG, sunlight causes warming!
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