To Plant or Not To Plant

By Bob Ellis on April 13th, 2007

Plant more trees to fight global warming. Wait, trees are causing global warming! Let’s cut down some trees!

If you need further evidence that hysteria is outpacing science in the global warming debate, consider the study published this week about Northern Hemisphere forests actually causing significant global warming.
Researchers from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reported in the ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ (April 17) that while tropical forests exert a cooling influence on global climate, forests in northern regions exert a warming influence — and it’s not just a trivial climatic effect.

I’m glad these scientists know how global warming is occurring and what’s going to happen!

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