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There is a case where forest growth is providing a positive feedback to climate change. The boreal forest is slowly replacing tundra on its boundary, which red
by brandmeyer 5y ago
There is a case where forest growth is providing a positive feedback to climate change. The boreal forest is slowly replacing tundra on its boundary, which reduces the albedo in the Arctic.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-011-1064-7 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-011-1064-7
- inetknght 5y ago> reduces the albedo in the Arctic. DO you really think that it's the growing forest that's the cause and not the symptom?
- brandmeyer 5y agoIts a positive feedback. More of an "exacerbating effect" than either cause or symptom.