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Planting Trees May Not Curb Global Warming

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: RAMANBIR BHATIA
30 November 2003 - 9:00am

By questioning the widsom of forestation to curb global warming, a new study challeneges one of the core tenets of the Kyoto Protocol.

"The rainforest emits more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than it absorbes when conditions are very wet", says a new study by Harvard University published in the journal Science.The research results are " pertinent because the idea of using forests to curb global warming forms a central plank of the Kyoto Protocal."

Full Story: 'No Solution' found in more trees
Source: BBC News, November 28, 2003
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