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Land-based carbon offsets: False hope?
2013-05-30 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Leading world climate change experts have thrown cold water on the idea that planting trees can offset carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. Professor Brendan Mackey of Griffith University Climate Change Response Program is the lead author of an international study involving researchers from Australia and the U.K. Their findings are reported in "Untangling the confusion around land carbon science and climate change mitigation policy," published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change....
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