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Tree-Killing Hurricanes Could Contribute To Global Warming
sciencedaily.com - 5/10/2009
Tree-Killing Hurricanes Could Contribute To Global Warming
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ScienceDaily: A first-of-its kind, long-term study of hurricane impact on U.S. trees shows that hurricane damage can diminish a forest's ability to absorb carbon dioxide, a major contributor to global warming, from the atmosphere. Tulane University researchers from the Department of Ecology and ...

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DrumBeat: May 10, 2009
The Oil Drum — ... be a windmill to pump the water. Cows use a lot of water. Capt. Larz Neilson wrote that he remembered a windmill at Tom Daly’s dairy farm on Andover Street, known as Knollwood Farm. Windmills began to go out of use in the early 1900’s, when people changed over to gasoline pump engines. In 1911, Reading Municipal Light Dept. wired the town, and many people got electric pumps. In 1928, Wilmington installed a town water system making windmill pumps obsolete. Tree-Killing Hurricanes Could Contribute To Global Warming ScienceDaily — A ...

Tree-Killing Hurricanes Could Contribute To Global Warming
Peak Oil News — ... might contribute to global warming. When trees are destroyed en masse by hurricanes, not only will there be fewer trees in the forest to absorb greenhouse gases, but forests could eventually become emitters of carbon dioxide, warming the climate. ...“If landfalling hurricanes become more intense or more frequent in the future, tree mortality and damage exceeding 50 million tons of tree biomass per year would result in a net carbon loss from U.S. forest ecosystems,” says Chambers. Science Daily "

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