European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 i the stars and stripes monday. April 25,1988 reforestation could help slow greenhouse effect study says today s crossword Washington a major Pitons in restore tropical forests could bring an important slowdown in the it per enl greenhouse effect warming of the Earth according in a study of Forest needs. Growing Trees absorb Carbon dioxide the principal Gas responsible for the warming and break the Gas Down to incorporate Carbon in their Woody tissues. A growing Forest also adds Carbon to me soil. It does provide an important lag Lime. While we do important things in other areas like a concent National Energy policies said Lori Hvisc. A researcher at the world watch Institute and one of the authors of the study released saturday. The Institute is a Washington based environmental research organization. It has frequently advocated increased conservation and use of renewable resources to re pm acc Fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide is released in inc atmosphere in the burning of All Fossil fuels. It warms the Earth by trapping heal that normally would be radiated out to space. Most scientists believe the Earth is warming with potentially Large changes in rainfall patterns Energy de Mand crop growing areas and a rising sea level to threaten Low lying areas. Aboul 40 percent of the Earth s land area or 12.8 billion acres is Cov ered with Forest of which about 7.3 billion acres was tropical Forest in 1980. The world watch study Esti mates that about 3.2 million acres an area the size of conc Licul or North Ern Ireland is lost every year. In their study of current tropical Forest issues Hvisc and co author Sandra to Secl estimated that tropical countries need to restore about 250 million acres of Forest to repair dam age to soils and streams. 140 million acres to Supply Wood for fuel and 25 million acres for timbering. Counting overlap ind Wood used for fuel in the near term they Esti mated that about 300 million acres of new tropical Forest could extract car Bon dioxide from the atmosphere while the Trees mature which could be .10 or 40years from planting. This would cover an area a bit european weather1 h m 38 4ft fi5? a l if 64 38 41 m33 4t c 39 46 r a Ora Ruo 73 61 Motif w 45 Moku 34 Swo 63 4fl Iwon " � 66 37 h smaller than Arizona California Nevada and Oregon. In an admitted Back of the in Velpoe calculation Postel and Hvisc estimated that the growing Trees could remove 860 million tons of Carbon from the atmosphere each year until the Trees matured. This would be about 47 percent of the total Carbon currently being re leased by Forest destruction. Irving Mintzer a researcher for the world resources Institute who has studied the greenhouse effect said the estimates of his counterpart organization Are not Trivi Al amounting to about 15 percent of Carbon released by All Fossil fuel combustion. But we should not be seduced into thinking reforestation can solve the warming prob Lem he said the world Bank the world re sources Institute and . Agencies launched an Effort in late 1985 to in Vest $8 billion counting government and private investments in reforestation Over the next five Yean. The world watch study said the Success of the Effort would depend on efforts individual countries make and those in turn would depend on mobilizing International private organizations and foundations and local private groups. To Plant the forests they Call for by the year 2000 would mean planting 17 billion Trees per year. 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