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Author: Lawrence AkutagawaLawrence Akutagawa Date: Feb 16, 2008 19:55
"Alvin E. Toda" lava.net> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Maren at google wrote:
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>> If you want to get CO2 out of the atmosphere grow
>> trees, especially hardwood trees, they store the most
>> of it for the longest time. You may get more rain
>> that way, which in some places would be a good thing
>> ... The Hamakua Coast is a much more pleasant drive
>> since it isn't so windy anymore, and a lot less dry
>> too.
>>
>> Maren (occasional wikipedia contributor)
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> Have you read something about trees in some (tropical?)
> climates being less effective or maybe even having a
> negative effect? Thought I saw that someplace. Don't
> see how that can apply to Hawaii. It seems that trees
> have a cooling effect here. ...
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Author: Maren at googleMaren at google Date: Feb 17, 2008 09:55
On Feb 16, 5:55 pm, "Lawrence Akutagawa" sbcglobal.net>
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>>> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Maren at google wrote:
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>>> If you want to get CO2 out of the atmosphere grow
>>> trees, especially hardwood trees, they store the most
>>> of it for the longest time. You may get more rain
>>> that way, which in some places would be a good thing
>>> ... The Hamakua Coast is a much more pleasant drive
>>> since it isn't so windy anymore, and a lot less dry
>>> too.
>
>>> Maren (occasional wikipedia contributor)
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Author: Alvin E. TodaAlvin E. Toda Date: Feb 17, 2008 19:15
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Maren at google wrote:
> Trees hold water and their canopy causes evaporation
> to be less than if there were no trees. Water holds
> heat. Humid soil as well as probably humid air takes
> more energy to heat up and holds it longer, leading
> to the cooling off process being slower. There's no
> energy magically created or destroyed. So if there
> are more trees it's rather likely that the days are
> cooler and the nights warmer ...
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> In keeping with this: the time periods in the last
> few years when we had both highest and lowest daily
> temperature records broken in the same week and
> sometimes in the same day were always times when it
> was very dry (when lawns get crunchy and forests
> transparent).
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Author: Maren at googleMaren at google Date: Feb 18, 2008 09:05
On Feb 17, 5:15 pm, "Alvin E. Toda" lava.net> wrote:> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Maren at google wrote:
> IIRC one speculation about forests is the heat created
> from forest fires. Anyway I googled for forests and
which compared to the difference in the output in solar radiation
between active and quiet period is probably minor, and any volcano
outbreak will cause more atmospheric disturbances than anything
man-made. According to my GP doctor (who I don't doubt in this)
we live under the biggest ozone hole on (above) the planet.
Another thing to consider is that the earth's magnetic field is
getting weaker.
> "global warming" and found a number of critical
> articles. The current consensus is that Forests are
> good for mitigating global warming. But IIRC there have
> been some concerns about forests. For...
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Author: Alvin E. TodaAlvin E. Toda Date: Feb 18, 2008 13:35
[I thought of adding the topic "tropic forests" in
parentheses because it would make it easier for a new
person to this ng to find this information. By looking
at the titles of this thread for example, the new user
could figure out that the thread is about renewable
energy and possibly about global warming. By doing a
search, we could find a lot of threads with the same
topic. Searching entirely by word strings in the title
is more difficult. Also if moderators kept the list of
past topics which would be published monthly on this
ng, then new users would find it helpfull to use this
ng to find information. The moderator topic list would
be an index of this ng]
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Maren at google wrote:
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