The Forest Prime-Evil
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Willis Eschenbach
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
There’s a new study out claiming that tropical forests are losing their ability to sequester carbon dioxide. Bad forest, no cookies for you! The study is entitled “Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests”, and is available through Sci-Hub here. In their press release it says:
In the 1990s intact tropical forests removed roughly 46 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, declining to an estimated 25 billion tonnes in the 2010s.
The lost sink capacity in the 2010s compared to the 1990s is 21 billion tonnes carbon dioxide, equivalent to a decade of fossil fuel emissions from the UK, Germany, France and Canada combined.
Overall, intact tropical forests removed 17% of human-made carbon dioxide emissions in the 1990s, reduced to just 6% in the 2010s.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/06/07/the-forest-prime-evil/
