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redOrbit: Afforestation, or the replacing of farmlands or unused open areas with forests is being encouraged under the UN’s Kyoto Protocol climate-change treaty under the theory that forests are will soak up carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air through photosynthesis, AFP is reporting.
Environmental researchers, in a new probe, said that even massive conversion of land to forestry would have only a slender benefit at best against the increase of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.
The primary reason is......
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Afforestation Not Likely To Reverse Global Warming
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 20th, 2011
Posted in Water Conservation