Assessments Require Strict Carbon Accounting
The Issue
The eyes of scientists and politicians have recently turned toward Canadian boreal forests as a possible cure for the excessive carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Satellite data and field experiments have indicated that global warming could stimulate the growth of boreal forests, thereby removing some of our carbon from the air. Can boreal forests be a sink of carbon? Mike Apps (Canadian Forest Service) will argue that only a strict accounting of the carbon budget of entire forest areas could answer this question.
The Science
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