'Greener' climate prediction shows plants slow warming

Wednesday, December 8, 2010 - 09:30 in Earth & Climate

A new NASA computer modeling effort has found that additional growth of plants and trees in a world with doubled atmospheric carbon dioxide levels would create a new negative feedback -- a cooling effect -- in the Earth's climate system that could work to reduce future global warming.

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