Toddsterpatriot
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No doubt. Not " Americans" per se, but their corporate owners ? FOR SURETropical forests are now emitting more carbon than oxygen, alarming new study finds
Worrying report reveals true impact of damage to forested areas
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Around 20 per cent of the Amazon rainforest has been destroyed in recent years AFP/Getty Images
So much of the Earth’s forest has been destroyed that the tropics now emit more carbon than they capture, scientists have found.
Tropical forests previously acted as a vital carbon “sink”, taking carbon from the atmosphere and turning it into oxygen, but the trend has reversed: they now emit almost twice as much carbon as they consume.
Scientists said ending deforestation and degradation in the tropics could reduce global carbon emissions by 8 per cent.
Tropical forests are now emitting more carbon than oxygen, alarming new study finds
Worrying to say the least...A major feed back.
America's fault.
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