The good news: Tropical rainforests love taking up carbon dioxide - even more than we thought, according to a new study. “This is good news, because uptake in northern forests may already be slowing, while tropical forests may continue to take up carbon for many years,” says lead author David Schimel of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.... The question of which type of forest is the bigger carbon absorber “is not just an accounting curiosity,” says NCAR scientist Britton Stephens, a co-author on the paper. “It has big implications for our understanding of whether global terrestrial ecosystems might continue to offset our carbon dioxide emissions or might begin to exacerbate climate change.” www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/news/13659/tropical-forests-have-large-appetite-carbon-dioxide #climate #carbon #CO2 #NASA #JPL #NCAR
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:46:25 +0000
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