GOP presidential hopefuls shift on global warming
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Posted on 06/05/2011 10:32:05 PM PDT by UniqueViews
For years exponents of climate change theories have used images of deforestation to support their cause.
However, the density of forests and woodland across much of the world is actually increasing, according to a respected scientific study.
The change, which is being dubbed the 'Great Reversal', could be crucial in reducing atmospheric carbon, which is linked to climate change.
In countries from Finland to Malaysia, the thickening has taken place so quickly that it has reversed the carbon losses caused by deforestation between 1990 and 2010. In Britain, forest density has increased by 10.8 per cent from 2000 to 2010 and by 6.6 per cent across the whole of Europe.
Dubbed the planet's lungs, forests act as huge carbon sinks that absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow.
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Thanks, puckster - most fascinating. When one stops to think about it, why would the peoples indigenous to the fertile Mississippi River region take up the same sort of agricultural activities as those who lived along the Nile and Euphrates.
GOP presidential hopefuls shift on global warming
Global Warming on Free Republic
One time up in the Adirondacks someone who was from the area told us that NYS is actually being reforested. At one time, most of it was cut down for agriculture, in the days when almost everyone was a farmer.
Now that people are not farming so much, much of the land is reverting to forest again and that there is actually far more forested land than even a hundred years ago.
UPSTATE NY is a simply beautiful state.
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