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 Stories About: advice AND Ask Umbra AND climate AND wilderness
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The Problem of the Root
On tree planting |
Umbra Fisk |
22 Jan 2007 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, My wife recently heard a program on NPR where an expert on global warming said that planting trees in the Northern Hemisphere plays a negligible role in fighting global warming, while playing a significant role in the Southern Hemisphere. Do you have any light to shed on this? Randy Cunningham, Confused Tree-Hugger Cleveland, Ohio Dearest Randy, Tree hugging has no proven deleterious effect on climate change. What yo ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, climate, wilderness (all these topics) |
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