Along the same lines as my previous post[1]/sup/a, all sorts of people bemoan deforestation as a prime cause of global warming. They do this despite the fact that I have heard some studies suggest that there are actually more/em trees now than there were in the days of unchecked wildfires before the colonial period. Be that as it may, it turns out to still be too simplistic a view.[2]/a/sup It appears that northern forests have a higher cost in albedo change than they provide benefit in carbon absorption. This result reminds me of some of the other speculations I have made regarding albedo, I wonder anew what else they have failed to consider./p
- Mr. Luke Schierer. “The Health Benefits of the Sun” Random Unfinished Thoughts. 2005-12-28 https://www.schierer.org/~luke/log/20051228-0959/the-health-benefits-of-the-sun/li
- Ms. Elizabeth Svoboda. “Careful Where You Put That Tree” Wired News. 2005-12 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69914-0.html/li /ol/font