Recent researches show that the impact of deforestation on global warming may differ in different areas. At higher altitude deforestation can have cooling effects but it causes no cooling effect in areas with lower altitudes and may cause warming.
KyawTha Paw U, professor of atmospheric sciences at University of California, says : “It depends where the deforestation is, It could have some cooling effects at the regional scale, at higher latitudes, but there’s no indication deforestation is cooling lower latitudes, and in fact may actually cause warming. Because surface station observations are made in grassy fields with biophysical properties of cleared land, they do not accurately represent the state of climate for 30 percent of the terrestrial surface covered by forests.”
Research was justifies with the reason that areas with higher latitudes have warm forest because they absorbed sun's heat but deforestation in these areas causing cooling effects because they reflect the sun light.
Where areas with lower latitudes have cool forests hence deforestation warms the region.
Xuhui Lee, professor of meteorology at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale University says “People are debating whether afforestation is a good idea in high latitudes. If you plant trees you sequester carbon, which is a benefit to the climate system. At the same time, if you plant trees you warm the landscape because trees are darker compared to other vegetation types. So they absorb solar radiation.”
KyawTha Paw U, professor of atmospheric sciences at University of California, says : “It depends where the deforestation is, It could have some cooling effects at the regional scale, at higher latitudes, but there’s no indication deforestation is cooling lower latitudes, and in fact may actually cause warming. Because surface station observations are made in grassy fields with biophysical properties of cleared land, they do not accurately represent the state of climate for 30 percent of the terrestrial surface covered by forests.”
Research was justifies with the reason that areas with higher latitudes have warm forest because they absorbed sun's heat but deforestation in these areas causing cooling effects because they reflect the sun light.
Where areas with lower latitudes have cool forests hence deforestation warms the region.
Xuhui Lee, professor of meteorology at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies at Yale University says “People are debating whether afforestation is a good idea in high latitudes. If you plant trees you sequester carbon, which is a benefit to the climate system. At the same time, if you plant trees you warm the landscape because trees are darker compared to other vegetation types. So they absorb solar radiation.”
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