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Europes Shift to Dark Green Forests Fuels Warming
2016-02-07 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An expansion of Europe's forests towards dark green conifers has stoked global warming, according to a study at odds with a widespread view that planting more trees helps human efforts to slow rising temperatures. Forest changes have nudged Europe's summer temperatures up by 0.12°C (0.2°F) since 1750, largely because many nations have planted conifers such as pines and spruce whose dark colour traps the sun's heat, the scientists said. Lighter-colored broad-leafed trees, such as oak or birch,...
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