It Has Been Argued That Cutting Old- Growth Forests and Replacing

question 52

Multiple Choice

It has been argued that cutting old- growth forests and replacing them with plantations of young trees would help to alleviate the threat of global greenhouse warming.What important fact does this argument ignore?

• A)Most of the young trees would die within a few years.
• B)Forests play too minor a role in global CO2 dynamics,which are affected far more by marine algae.
• C)Most of the biomass of the cut trees would be added to the atmosphere as CO2 within a few years.
• D)Young trees fix carbon at a lower rate per unit mass than old trees.

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Null Hypothesis

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