This speaks to the importance of planting trees in urban areas to lower ambient temperatures and reduce the need for air conditioning.
Category: forests
Forests
carbon sequestration, climate, energy, environmental policy, faculty, forests, renewable energy
The Woody Biomass Hoax
Since most of the wood pellets are derived from newly harvested trees, the immediate impact on Earth’s climate is worse than coal.
biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, climate, faculty, forests, natural habitat
Negative Emissions by Forests
Trees remove a lot of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
The Forests are Burning
The incidence of forest fire is likely to increase in a warmer, drier world.
Trees and the Public Good
Without carbon dioxide uptake by trees, its concentration in the atmosphere would be rising nearly twice as fast as we observe today.
Monkeys are Kleptomaniacs: Hiking the MacRitchie Reservoir and Bukit Timah
When you first learn about morality, you learn that stealing is wrong. Macaques have no morals.
On Migration: Birds and Blue Devils
I will start this post by saying I am very impressed with our bus driver. 7:30 a.m. is too early to be coherent, and I cannot imagine how Mr. Lim managed to drive and speakContinue reading
We’re making it tough for Santa Claus
We better watch out for Santa, the elves, and the reindeer or we’ll not hear those hooves on the rooftop.
Replication in global change ecology
The opposition to global warming theory would melt in the face of an experiment with five Earth’s receiving no treatment and five Earth’s with CO2 added to the atmosphere
agriculture, carbon sequestration, climate, energy, environmental policy, faculty, forests, renewable energy
Reconsidering Bioenergy
Policies devoted to bioenergy should be redirected toward efforts to protect terrestrial carbon stocks and recarbonize the biosphere.