<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">“Banks have helped cause much of the crisis we find ourselves in; it would be fascinating if they turned out to be one of the solutions.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Bill McKibben</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><<<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-banks-could-bail-us-out-of-the-climate-crisis" class="">https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/how-banks-could-bail-us-out-of-the-climate-crisis</a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">==========================================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><i class="">The Wall Street Journal </i>Nov. 27, 2020</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">How Property Booms Eat Our Economic Future</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Growing body of research looking at U.S. and Chinese real-estate markets suggests long booms may drag on productivity of the economy</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 128, 195);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #333333" class=""><i class="">By </i></span><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class="">Mike Bird</i></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">This October, U.S. housing sales hit their highest level since 2006. China’s residential real-estate investment was up 14% relative to the same month last year. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Around the world, many housing markets have shrugged off a colossal economic slump, helped by low interest rates.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">In the short term,</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> such investment is a boost to economic activity in a year where headline figures have collapsed. But there are significant downsides. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">The fact that housing booms can be a longer-term risk to financial stability is well known,</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> but a growing...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">The rest is behind paywall</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-property-booms-eat-our-economic-future-11606466679?" class="">https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-property-booms-eat-our-economic-future-11606466679?</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><b class="">======================================================</b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); min-height: 14px;" class=""><b class=""></b><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.mondaq.com/canada/climate-change/1010574/stress-testing-the-impact-of-climate-change-on-canada39s-financial-system&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjk5NTM5NDgxMjExODIwNDA5MzIaOGEyODFlNzQ3ZjE3MjM2ZDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNFgsYDnbbygDE27RgvkDnSVIKm6tw" class=""><b class="">Canada: Stress-Testing The Impact Of Climate Change On Canada's Financial System</b><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""></b></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Mondaq News Alerts</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The project will use scenario analysis to stress test participating financial institutions to evaluate their exposure to the risks of climate change and the …</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b style="caret-color: rgb(255, 38, 0); color: rgb(255, 38, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;" class="">======================================================</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.americanbanker.com/news/why-banks-should-stress-test-for-climate-change" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(102, 0, 153);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.americanbanker.com/news/why-banks-should-stress-test-for-climate-change" class=""><b class="">American Banke</b></a><b class="">r magazine: </b><a href="https://www.americanbanker.com/news/why-banks-should-stress-test-for-climate-change" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #660099" class=""><b class="">Why banks should stress-test for climate change | </b></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0); color: rgb(112, 117, 122); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Jan 2, 2019</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(112, 117, 122); -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> — </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Bank</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""> portfolios are chock full of loans to industries — think agriculture, tourism, real estate and energy — that could be particularly hard hit by ...</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(102, 0, 153);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #202124; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.fitchratings.com/research/banks/climate-stress-tests-will-eventually-influence-bank-capital-10-09-2020" class=""><b class="">www.fitchratings</b></a><b class=""> :</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #202124" class=""><b class=""> </b><a href="https://www.fitchratings.com/research/banks/climate-stress-tests-will-eventually-influence-bank-capital-10-09-2020" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #660099; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Climate Stress Tests Will Eventually Influence Bank Capital</b></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #fffb00" class="">Sep 10, 2020 </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">— </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">The </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class="">US</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">, meanwhile, shows no sign of introducing </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class="">climate</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">-risk </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class="">stress tests</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> for its banks. French and UK </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class="">banking</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> regulators are among the first to ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.americanbanker.com/news/pressure-mounts-on-u-s-bank-regulators-to-stress-test-for-climate-change" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(102, 0, 153);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.americanbanker.com/news/why-banks-should-stress-test-for-climate-change" class=""><b class="">American Banker</b></a><b class=""> : </b><a href="https://www.americanbanker.com/news/pressure-mounts-on-u-s-bank-regulators-to-stress-test-for-climate-change" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #660099" class=""><b class="">Pressure mounts on US bank regulators to stress test for climate</b></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">September 20, 2020</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">, Pressure mounts on </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class="">U.S. bank</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> regulators to </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class="">stress test</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> for </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class="">climate</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> change.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/19/climate-change-threatens-banks-far-more-than-theyre-disclosing.html" class=""><b class="">Climate change threatens banks far more than they're disclosing</b><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #660099" class=""><b class=""></b></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(95, 99, 104);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #202124; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/19/climate-change-threatens-banks-far-more-than-theyre-disclosing.html" class="">www.cnbc.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""> › 2020/10/19 › climate-change-threatens-...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #fffb00" class="">Oct 19, 2020</span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a" class=""> — </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">The </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class="">U.S. banking</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> sector, including the largest Wall Street firms, is far more ... </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class="">climate</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> risk into their scenarios analysis and into their </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class="">stress tests</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.ceres.org/news-center/press-releases/first-its-kind-report-finds-us-banking-sector-far-more-exposed-climate" class=""><b class="">First-of-its-kind report finds U.S. banking sector far more ...</b><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #660099" class=""><b class=""></b></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(95, 99, 104);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #202124; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.ceres.org/news-center/press-releases/first-its-kind-report-finds-us-banking-sector-far-more-exposed-climate" class="">www.ceres.org<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368" class=""> › News Center › Press Releases</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #fffb00" class="">Oct 19, 2020</span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">The </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class="">U.S. banking</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> sector is far more exposed to the systemic and financial ... like </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class="">stress testing</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> and scenario analysis, and; Build </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class="">climate</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> risk into .</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(77, 81, 86); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Such an explanation does not fit England. The <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">wood crisis</span> there has to be attributed to the requirements of expanding agriculture, industry and commerce, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">all stimulated by a growing, shifting population.”</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“The <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">population </span>of England and Wales, about three million in the early 1530's, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">had nearly doubled </span>by the 1690's. The resulting demand for wood for various purposes was further increased by changes in the distribution of the population.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“ … although only one person in 10 was a townsman in the 1530s, one person in four was a townsman in the 1690s.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">John U. Nef. An Early Energy Crisis and Its Consequences. Scientific American November 1977</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“At an intensively studied site within the region, we quantified that after 15 months of depleted soil water content, </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #fffb00" class="">>90% of the dominant, overstory tree species died</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">. ….</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Notably, the recent drought was warme</span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">r </span></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">than the previous subcontinental drought …. die-off from the recent drought was more extensive than that from the previous drought, </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">extending into wetter sites within the tree species’ distribution.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Most of the patchy mortality in the 1950s was associated with trees 100 years old,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> whereas nearly complete tree mortality</span> across many size and age classes was observed in response to the recent drought (ref. 22 and data for Figs. 2D and 3B).”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Breshears et al (2005) Regional vegetation die-off in response to global-change-type drought. PNAS October 15, 2005</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 105, 217);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/102/42/15144.full.pdf" class="">https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/102/42/15144.full.pdf<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trees-are-growing-fast-and-dying-young-due-climate-change-180975819/" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trees-are-growing-fast-and-dying-young-due-climate-change-180975819/" class="">Trees Are Growing Fast and Dying Young Due to Climate ...<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class="">www.smithsonianmag.com</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(95, 99, 104);" class=""> › smart-news › trees-are-gro...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Sep 16, 2020 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> Are </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Growing Fast</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> and </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Dying Young</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> Due to Climate Change. Rapid </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">growth</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> reduces the capacity of </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">forests</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> to absorb and store carbon ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.zmescience.com/science/trees-grow-fast-die-young-043242/" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.zmescience.com/science/trees-grow-fast-die-young-043242/" class="">Trees that live fast die young and this is bad news for the ...<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class="">www.zmescience.com</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(95, 99, 104);" class=""> › Science</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Sep 9, 2020 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">“Carbon uptake rates of </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">forests</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> are likely to be on the wane as slow-</span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">growing</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> and persistent </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> are supplanted by </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">fast</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">-</span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">growing</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> but vulnerable ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/european-forests-could-live-fast-and-die-young-in-a-warming-climate" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/european-forests-could-live-fast-and-die-young-in-a-warming-climate" class="">European forests could 'live fast and die young' in a warming ...<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class="">www.carbonbrief.org</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(95, 99, 104);" class=""> › european-forests-could-live-fast...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">May 15, 2019 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Climate change could cause </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> to </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">grow faster</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">, accelerating the rate at which they absorb carbon from the atmosphere. But these </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">trees</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> may ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/08/shorter-lifespan-of-faster-growing-trees-will-add-to-climate-crisis-study-finds" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(102, 0, 153);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/08/shorter-lifespan-of-faster-growing-trees-will-add-to-climate-crisis-study-finds" class="">Shorter lifespan of faster-growing trees will add to climate crisis<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class="">www.theguardian.com</span><span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(95, 99, 104);" class=""> › environment › sep › shorter-li...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 81, 86);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #70757a; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Sep 8, 2020 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Rise in carbon capture as global warming speeds </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">growth</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> of </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">forests</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> would ... Live </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">fast</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">, </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5f6368; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">die young</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> is a truism often applied to rock stars but could ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(255, 38, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">“Ten thousand years ago there were between 1 and 5 million people on the planet. There was plenty of room to expand and move, and resources seemed endless.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Niles Eldredge. Dominion. 1995. University of California Press.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 38, 0); color: rgb(255, 38, 0);" class=""><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 0, 153); min-height: 11px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">"Forests of the Americas and the Caribbean are undergoing rapid change </span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">as human populations increase<i style="font-style: normal;" class=""> </i></span></span><span style="font-style: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">….. 80% of the forest types and 85% of the current forest area is potentially threatened”</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Open access article here: <<<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12623" class="">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12623</a>>></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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