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World's Forests Increasingly Taking up More Carbon

posted by mrpg on Monday February 25 2019, @07:00PM   Printer-friendly
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Phoenix666 writes:

Phys.org:

The world's forests are increasingly taking up more carbon, partially offsetting the carbon being released by the burning of fossil fuels and by deforestation in the tropics, according to a new study.

The findings, published in the journal Biogeosciences, suggest that forests are growing more vigorously, and therefore, locking away more carbon. Even so, the concentration of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is still on the rise.

[...] The increased plant growth in global forests could be due to several factors, including higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, warmer temperatures and increased availability of nitrogen.

Perhaps we should re-forest the deserts of the world.

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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday February 26 2019, @03:12AM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday February 26 2019, @03:12AM (#806744) Homepage Journal

    I don't clearly remember. Was it you who gave me those Righteous Chocolate Chip Cookies?

    I greatly prized the wool gloves you sent me. I think it was you. Recall you sent them during the 2015-2016 Winter; that was our coldest in several years before or since.

    But two or three months ago I gave them to a young woman on the bus who, in the driving rain well before Sunrise, was wearing just a windbreaker.

    I damn near gave her my coat. "Take care of yourself before you take care of others" indeed: to have given her my coat and I would have been in a real fix.

    But it's cool - so to speak. I got new gloves at the Portland Rescue Mission.

    I gave that second pair to my girlfriend, a Heroin and Benzo Addict who spends most of her time outdoors turning tricks.

    Since then the Mission hasn't had any gloves, but it's OK I've still got that coat, and it hasn't been as cold as in '15.

    And I have an apartment now.

    BEHOLD:

    No takers yet, but I have something even better:

    A STUDENT.

    After quite a long talk I realized that his repeated insistence that "I want to learn the notes" could mean only _one_ thing:

    "You want to learn Music Theory."

    That yesterday was my birthday led me to take the whole day off to screw around with with GarageBand all day yesterday, then all night, then all day today as well as likely all night tonight.

    I'll be posting a YouTube soon, with this done up in at least six parts, maybe eight:

    Seek Ye First

    Seek ye first
    The Kingdom Of G-d,
    And his righteousness.

    And all these things
    Shall be rendered unto you
    Alleju, Allejulah!

    Man doth not live
    By bread alone
    But by every wood

    That proceedeth
    From the mouth of G-d
    And his righteousness.

    --
    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
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