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Even as trees photosynthesize late into the year, their growth stops by mid-summer, which impacts their carbon uptake.
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Carbon dioxide gas has a relatively high freezing point. This results in the formation of high altitude CO2 clouds. These…
I couldn’t find any data on carbon storage dynamics in soil in this study – is this data available? Trees…
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- As the West debated a green energy future, Beijing was building it. “Even beyond the Republican-led assault on climate—part of the broader ideological war on environmental, social, and governance standards and “woke capitalism”—the past few […]
- “Right now, most models assume that if you have photosynthesis, you have growth. We find that’s not the case,” said Mukund Palat Rao, a carbon cycle scientist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University […]
- Sabin Center Director Michael Gerrard noted the science hasn’t been a factor in the array of lawsuits against the industry, which have largely been stalled by procedural disputes. “The emerging science of climate attribution will […]
This short 30 sec video and the accompanying graph are so helpful in summarizing the dramatic results of green-growth in…