{"id":169,"date":"2007-08-21T11:55:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T16:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=169"},"modified":"2007-08-21T11:55:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T16:55:58","slug":"cut-down-the-rainforest-save-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/21\/cut-down-the-rainforest-save-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cut down the rainforest! Save the Earth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, no&#8230;actually&#8230;but a report suggests that higher temperatures will cause more trees to release CO2 through respiration than they&#8217;ll sequester through photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>Not good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scidev.net\/content\/news\/eng\/tropical-trees-stunted-by-higher-temperatures.cfm?&amp;utm_source=feed-5-1&amp;utm_medium=rss\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;We are only able to state that the slowing in growth that we observed is consistent with the hypothesis that increases in temperature will cause decreases in tree growth,&#8221; explained one of the researchers, Joseph Wright, from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.<\/p>\n<p>If this is the case, in the future tropical forests could emit large amounts of carbon dioxide, write the researchers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, no&#8230;actually&#8230;but a report suggests that higher temperatures will cause more trees to release CO2 through respiration than they&#8217;ll sequester through photosynthesis. Not good. Link &#8220;We are only able to state that the slowing in growth that we observed is consistent with the hypothesis that increases in temperature will cause decreases in tree growth,&#8221; explained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-2J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}