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Researchers conducting a 5-year-long study examining snow cover in a northern hardwood forest region found that projected changes in climate could lead to a 95 percent reduction of deep-insulating snowpack in forest areas across the northeastern United States by the end of the 21st century. The loss of snowpack would likely result in a steep reduction of forests' ability to store climate-changing carbon dioxide and filter pollutants from the air and water.
Snowpack declines may stunt tree growth and forests' ability to store carbon emissions
The world does not need more accelerating feedbacks to AGW but, as Stephen Crane told us, the fact has not created in the Universe any sense of responsibility.
This study finds that red spruce growth has increased more than 100% since 1989 due to increased CO2 in the atmosphere...the study was done in the appalachains, but is there any reason to suspect that increased atmospheric CO2 would be having a similar effect on trees worldwide?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.14273