Thursday, October 20, 2011

Current Events 9 (MORE CO2 consumed in RAINFORESTS)

Have you ever thought to yourself; "hmmm... there’s not a lot of oxygen here" well what if I tell you that you are soooo very wrong, because science and research has shown, that in only a couple of years, trees (rainforests) will observe more carbon dioxide, therefore it is able to produce more oxygen, and we know for a fact that humans need oxygen.

North American forests appear to have a greater capacity to soak up “heat trapping” carbon dioxide gas than researchers had already thought about.

As a result, they could help slow the pace of climate warming caused by humans, most scientists had thought, a U-M ecologist and his colleagues have concluded this.

The results of a 12,year long study at an lab in “northeastern Wisconsin challenge” a lot of guesses and arguing about how future forests will respond to the rising levels of carbon dioxide “blamed for human caused climate changes,” stated University of Michigan microbial ecologist Donald Zak, lead author of a paper published online this week in Ecology Letters.

"Some of the initial assumptions about ecosystem response are not correct and will have to be revised," stated Zak, a professor at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.Have you ever thought to yourself; "hmmm... there’s not a lot of oxygen here" well what if I tell you that you are soooo very wrong, because science and research has shown, that in only a couple of years, trees (rainforests) will observe more carbon dioxide, therefore it is able to produce more oxygen, and we know for a fact that humans need oxygen.

North American forests appear to have a greater capacity to soak up “heat trapping” carbon dioxide gas than researchers had already thought about.

As a result, they could help slow the pace of climate warming caused by humans, most scientists had thought, a U-M ecologist and his colleagues have concluded this.

The results of a 12,year long study at an lab in “northeastern Wisconsin challenge” a lot of guesses and arguing about how future forests will respond to the rising levels of carbon dioxide “blamed for human caused climate changes,” stated University of Michigan microbial ecologist Donald Zak, lead author of a paper published online this week in Ecology Letters.

"Some of the initial assumptions about ecosystem response are not correct and will have to be revised," stated Zak, a professor at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

1 comment:

  1. For some reason, you have two copies of your current event analysis. Be sure that you are not copy=pasting the information. You may use a quote or two, but most of this summary should be in your own words. Reflection missing. What did you think of the information presented?

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