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Apr 11, 2007
Global deforestation would cool the Earth
Deforestation across the globe would produce a net cooling effect, because of changes in the Earth's surface reflectivity and variations in cloud cover due to a decrease in evapotranspiration. That's according to researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Carnegie Institution, both in the US, and France's Université Montpellier II, who used a three-dimensional coupled global carbon-cycle and climate model to simulate large-scale deforestation.
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