MAJOR SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY: FORESTS ARE A MAJOR SOURCE OF GREENHOUSE GASES

BBC:

Scientists in Germany have discovered that ordinary plants produce significant amounts of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas which helps trap the sun's energy in the atmosphere. The findings, reported in the journal Nature, have been described as "startling", and may force a rethink of the role played by forests in holding back the pace of global warming. And the BBC News Website has learned that the research, based on observations in the laboratory, appears to be corroborated by unpublished observations of methane levels in the Brazilian Amazon.

Until now, it had been thought that natural sources of methane were mainly limited to environments where bacteria acted on vegetation in conditions of low oxygen levels, such as in swamps and rice paddies. But a team led by Frank Keppler of the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Germany, stumbled upon this new effect when studying emissions from the leaves of trees and grasses in conditions similar to those they would encounter in the open air. To their amazement, the scientists found that all the textbooks written on the biochemistry of plants had apparently overlooked the fact that methane is produced by a range of plants even when there is plenty of oxygen.

WANT TO STOP GLOBAL WARMING?! THEN CUT DOWN THE AMAZON! Heh. Seriously, this should reinforce the fact that MAN-MADE global warming is a hoax - and that the science that the Left uses to bolster their ideologicial attack against America and industrialism is FAR from settled.