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Can trees offset our carbon production?
Can trees offset our carbon production?
Submitted by: The Two Sides Team October 31, 2011
A thought-provoking article from Richard Romano on the U.S. blogsite WhatTheyThink.com
Forests are substantial carbon sinks, capable of absorbing one-fourth of the planets annual carbon emissions. But how sustainable is this?
A seven-year-study conducted by researchers at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., attempted to answer this questionand we may not like the answer. Heres the thing. There are two countervailing processes at work vis-à-vis forests and carbon: warming (i.e., climate change) hastens decomposition of dead vegetation, releasing CO2. But at the same time, that decomposition releases ammonium which acts as a fertilizer and helps trees grow faster andergoabsorb more carbon.
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