Intensive land-management leaves Europe without carbon sinks

Reposted from: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/11/23/intensive-land-management-leaves-europe-without-carbon-sinks/

November 23, 2009 @ 8:19 pm

Away from Climategate and back to science, here’s something interesting fingering land use as an issue. This is from the Max Planck Society. A new calculation of Europe’s greenhouse gas balance shows that emissions of methane and nitrous oxide tip the balance and eliminate Europe’s terrestrial sink of greenhouse-gases.   Of all global carbon dioxide emissions, less than [...]