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Life Sciences => The Environment => Topic started by: thedoc on 15/06/2011 10:56:08

Title: Can trees make clouds?
Post by: thedoc on 15/06/2011 10:56:08

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Title: Re: Can trees make clouds?
Post by: CliffordK on 20/06/2011 05:35:27

The trees in the Amazon and the Congo very much create their own environment, and the forests are otherwise much cooler than would be predicted by their locations, or things like surface Albedo.  Certainly down inside the shady forests is much cooler than out on an open hot hillside.

This is actually one of the risks that South America and Africa have with the destruction of these great forests.

Title: Can trees make clouds?
Post by: zincsulfate on 21/10/2011 08:08:36

I have no idea about that, I just come and see.