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Zeb
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JAN 09, 03:09 PM
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https://jalopnik.com/plants...s-and-tru-1849965862
| quote | | You may not think of New York City as an excessively green place, but life has found a way into every nook and cranny of the Big Apple not taken up by concrete. There’s so much green, in fact, that on certain summer days New York’s plant life reduce CO2 by up to 40 percent—sometimes knocking out an entire day’s worth of traffic emissions. |
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Had to put this in "Politics & Religion" because it's going to be a touchy subject. But anyway. Turns out tress are a Good Thing. Sorry, some of you. At least in cities and during peak times. Obviously they won't be a total solution, but every little bit helps, I suppose.
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Wichita
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JAN 09, 03:20 PM
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rinselberg
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JAN 09, 04:14 PM
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Directly from the science literature that is the basis for the article in Jalopnik:
| quote | | Despite [New York City] having the largest anthropogenic CO2 emissions [road vehicles, power plants, building HVAC; etc.] of any city in the US and containing relatively little vegetation cover, biogenic CO2 uptake [trees, shrubs, grass; etc.] still offsets up to 40% of the city's CO2 enhancements from anthropogenic emissions on summer afternoons. This highlights the important contribution urban ecosystems make to urban carbon cycling, even in large megacities. With a growing number of cities embracing ambitious carbon emission reduction goals, there is a rapidly growing need for tools to assess a city's progress towards these goals. Accurate characterization of the vegetation and biogenic carbon fluxes of a city's ecosystems are essential to the development of effective atmospheric monitoring tools. |
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"High resolution modeling of vegetation reveals large summertime biogenic CO2 fluxes in New York City"
Dandan Wei, Andrew Reinmann, Luke [D.] Schiferl and Roisin Commane; Environmental Research Letters; December 2022.
Online access, free of charge:
https://iopscience.iop.org/...088/1748-9326/aca68f
No one (among the four listed researchers) that (likely) goes by "Greta". (The Greta Project weighs in.)
These are the researchers' institutional affiliations:
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.
- Environmental Science Initiative, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center.
- Graduate Program in Earth and Environmental Sciences and Biology, CUNY Graduate Center.
- Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Hunter [not Biden, I hope] College, New York.
- Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Columbia University.
This is an acknowledgement by the researchers:
| quote | | We acknowledge support by [the] National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under Grant NA20OAR4310306. We acknowledge Anna Karion [of the] National Institute of Standards and Technology for providing the CO2 concentration data at Mineola, NY and Stockholm, NJ. |
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Kudos to these federally supported agencies... NOAA and NIST.
"Thank you for watching this latest presentation of the National Climate League, and for letting us into your pixels during these extraordinary times."[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 01-09-2023).]
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