Forests can help control climate change (Cpt. Obvious Alert)

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[PROCON]

Boulder, Colo. -- The Earth has about 16.2 million square miles of forests but scientists say research is needed to understand the forests' impact on climate change.

"As politicians and the general public become more aware of climate change, there will be greater interest in legislative policies to mitigate global warming," said atmospheric scientist Gordon Bonan of the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. "Forests have been proposed as a possible solution, so it is imperative that we understand fully how forests influence climate."

The complex relationships within forests both add and subtract from the equations that dictate the warming of the planet, he said.

"In the Amazon, tropical rain forests remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere," said Bonan. "This helps mitigate global warming by lowering greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. These forests also pump moisture into the atmosphere through evapotranspiration. This cools climate and also helps to mitigate global warming.

"We need better understanding of the many influences of forests on climate, both positive and negative feedbacks and how these will change as climate changes," he added.

Bonan's study appears in the June 13 issue of the journal Science.

[PROCON]

Ping!

[American Quilter]

Boulder. Known to conservative Coloradoans as “Little Cuba”.

[tatsinfla]

trees take in carbon dioxide and give back oxygen....basic process taught to all of us in school....

[According2RecentPollsAirIsGood]

We already understand what's happening to forests with increased CO2 being generated. They're absorbing it. And they're growing. It's called photosynthesis, ya know that pwetty concept we've been hearing about since grade school. And it's proven already. America's forests have grown 40% over the past 50 years.

Every single person needs to read this paper!

It's the work of the group that has gathered the signatures of over 31,000 scientists and engineers around the world who oppose Kyoto and the idea of anthropogenic global warming. It's devastating. And it shows among other things that trees are growing more with more CO2 in the atmosphere, a concept a 5th grader understands but many PhD's do not.

[okie01]

Forests can help control climate change

Forests are already helping control climate change.

Satellite images reveal that the acreage in forest around the world has enjoyed a slight increase every year since since images became available.

Coincidence?

I think not.

KILL THE TREES.
STOP GLOBAL WARMING.

[dirtboy]

"In the Amazon, tropical rain forests remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere," said Bonan. "This helps mitigate global warming by lowering greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. These forests also pump moisture into the atmosphere through evapotranspiration. This cools climate and also helps to mitigate global warming.

Isn't water a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2? These dipweeds make no sense whatsoever.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

There is enough rotting vegetation in rain forests that on net they don't absorb much CO2. Pumping moisture into the atmosphere holds in more heat, water vapor is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO2.

[JoJo Gunn]

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SQUAWK!

The obsessive-compulsive parrots have taken over “journalism”.

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[aaCharley]

Whatever is absorbed by a tree is released by a termite when the tree dies.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Well, our decadent (formerly-)Western governments oughta stop pimping biofuels, as the push for biofuels, along with the rise in food prices, is leading to forest clearing in the Turd World.