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Dramatic growth in plant cover will not offset damage deforestation

2015-04-05 21:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Independent: The dramatic growth in plant cover in the past decade gives a huge boost to the battle against global warming. But any celebrations should be muted by this sobering fact: the extra carbon being stored by this additional vegetation, while enormous, only represents seven per cent of the 60 billion tonnes of carbon that has been emitted into the atmosphere over the same period, which will remain there for centuries. There is no sense, then, in which the increased carbon uptake of our plantlife detracts...

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