Deforestation: The hidden cause of global warming:
Tropical Deforestation, Climate Impacts (NASA by Rebecca Lindsey):
Related: Deforestation (from the National Geographic) - Deforestation (Greenpeace) - Deforestation and the Greenhouse Effect - What’s Up With the Weather? - The Choice: Doomsday or Arbor Day
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May 15th, 2007 at 2:11 am
They make it sound like stopping deforestation will stop global warming. That’s simply not true. Although deforestation is one among many significant contributors, we need to decrease CO2 emissions in many places not just one. And we might even need to artifically cool the atmosphere, stopping emissions will probably not be enough.
December 6th, 2007 at 5:33 am
[...] How come such a simple thing as the relation between deforestation to the climate changes hasn’t resulted in changes in the deforestation patterns? [...]
October 11th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
the insect threatens one of the world’s largest forest systems: Canada’s boreal forest, a 600-mile-wide band of pine woodlands that stretches from the Yukon in Alaska all the way to Newfoundland on the East Coast…