<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">One can’t help but note the irony of the claims we need to more heavily manage our forests in the face of climate change when, as this research suggests, management is probably lessening the forests' ability to mitigate climate change.<br>
<div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><br></span></div><br><div><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Times" color="#1F1F1F"><b>Forests are supposed to help stop climate change. These forests didn't</b></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><font size="-3"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/04/forests-are-supposed-to-help-stop-climate-change-these-forests-didnt/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/04</a><span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/04/forests-are-supposed-to-help-stop-climate-change-these-forests-didnt/">/forests-are-supposed-to-help-stop-climate-change-these-forests-didn</a><span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/04/forests-are-supposed-to-help-stop-climate-change-these-forests-didnt/">t/</a></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Washington Post article based on article in Science:</div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6273/597">http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6273/597</a></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Excerpt from Washington Post article:</div><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><div><font color="#0E0E0E" face="Arial">"European forests have failed to realize a net [carbon dioxide] removal from the atmosphere, and this is due to the fact that humans extracted wood from unmanaged forests by bringing these forests under management," said the study's lead author Kim Naudts, a researcher with the University of Versailles' Climate and Environmental Sciences Laboratory at the time the work was conducted.</font></div><div><font color="#0E0E0E" face="Arial"><br>"Even a well-managed forest today stores less carbon than its natural counterparts in 1750," Naudts said.</font></div><div><font color="#0E0E0E" face="Arial"><br>Additionally, the researchers found that replacing broadleaved forests with conifers had another unintended warming effect. Conifer leaves tend to be darker than those of broadleaved trees, Naudts pointed out, so they allow more sunlight to be absorbed.</font></div><div><font color="#0E0E0E" face="Arial"><br>And, Naudts added, "the other effect is that they are more conservative with water, which leads to less evapotranspiration, and to drier air." Evapotranspiration is the process by which water evaporates out of a tree's leaves into the atmosphere. The resulting drier air also contributed to a warming effect.</font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Georgia" size="+1" color="#0E0E0E"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Georgia" size="-3" color="#0E0E0E"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/04/forests-are-supposed-to-help-stop-climate-change-these-forests-didnt/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/04</a><span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/04/forests-are-supposed-to-help-stop-climate-change-these-forests-didnt/">/forests-are-supposed-to-help-stop-climate-change-these-forests-didn</a><span></span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/02/04/forests-are-supposed-to-help-stop-climate-change-these-forests-didnt/">t/</a></font><br><font face="Georgia" size="+1" color="#0E0E0E"></font></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>