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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/17/us-east-trees-warming-hole-study-climate-crisis>
"Trees provide innumerable benefits to the world, from food to shelter to
oxygen, but researchers have now found their dramatic rebound in the eastern US
has delivered a further, stunning feat – the curtailing of the soaring
temperatures caused by the climate crisis.
While the US, like the rest of the world, has heated up since industrial times
due to the burning of fossil fuels, scientists have long been puzzled by a
so-called “warming hole” over parts of the US south-east where temperatures
have flatlined, or even cooled, despite the unmistakable broader warming trend.
A major reason for this anomaly, the new study finds, is the vast reforestation
of much of the eastern US following the initial loss of large numbers of trees
in the wake of European settlement in America. Such large expanses have been
reforested in the past century – with enough trees sprouting back to cover an
area larger than England – that it has helped stall the affect of global
heating."
Via
Reasons to be Cheerful:
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https://reasonstobecheerful.world/what-we-are-reading-book-bans-climate-resilience/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
