Thursday, February 27, 2014

The smell of pine

This is the best news I have heard in a long time: plant more pine forests!

Pine smell 'limits' climate change http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26340038

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From the article:

"The scientists stress that the new understanding is not a panacea for climate change as forests will stop emitting vapours if they become too stressed from heat or lack of water.

However, Dr Ehn believes the vapours could have a significant impact in the medium term.

"If you go into a pine forest and notice that pine forest smell, that could be the smell that actually limits climate change from reaching such levels that it could become really a problem in the world.""

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