Tropical Forests DO NOT Absorb Carbon

Since humans began to worry about having put too much carbon in the atmosphere, we’ve considered tropical forests an important “carbon sink.” Their fast growth rate, dense vegetation, and rich soils sucked more carbon out of the atmosphere then they produced. In other words, tropical forests were a natural greenhouse-gas vacuum. Except now, just when the world most needs them to be, they’re not.

At some point, it turns out, deforestation, drought, and other forest-disturbing factors tipped the scales, making tropical forests a net producer of carbon rather than a sink, according to a new study published today (Sept. 28) in the journal Science. Each year, instead of absorbing carbon, these degraded forests are a source of more carbon (roughly 425 teragrams of carbon per year) than an entire year’s worth of US transportation emissions.

You can read the rest @
https://qz.com/1090142/tropical-forests-are-no-longer-a-carbon-sink-emitting-as-much-carbon-per-year-as-all-transit-in-the-us/

Another tenet of the climate change hoax movement bites the dust.

By the way, those guys at Woods Hole sure get a lot of nifty vacation time, don't they? Who paid for this "study", the US taxpayer via some grant?