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Tree ring warning: Forests may not be able to save us
2016-07-22 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Futurity: Forests take up 25 to 30 percent of human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide--a strong greenhouse gas--and therefore are considered to play a crucial role in mitigating the speed and magnitude of climate change. However, a new study that combines future climate model projections; historic tree-ring records across the entire continent of North America; and how the growth rates of trees may respond to a higher concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere shows that the mitigation effect of...
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