Boreal Forest, climate “…if the destruction from fires and insects keeps rising, the situation [whereby the boreal forest stores a great quantity of carbon] will reverse, and some of the carbon that has been locked away in the forests will return to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, accelerating the pace of global warming and further magnifying the stress on the forests — a dangerous feedback loop.”–article quote.
Boreal forest is critical to carbon storage and sequestration but it is doomed. I met a botanist at the climate Townhall in Ottawa Glebe last week, who described the way warming will impact boreal forest. Under current projected warming scenarios, warming will limit it’s habitable latitudes north but there is not sufficient soil at the northern latitudes to support it’ migration there. She put it that this globally critical resource cannot survive more than another few decades.
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