A new study has discovered that vegetation not only emits Oxygen, but methane as well. It has long been thought that rotting vegetation on the forest floor was the main source of methane plumes measured coming from rainforests, but new studies have confirmed that living plants actually emit Methane.
This will have a major impact on the Kyoto protocol because part of the agreement states that participating countries can plant forests in lieu of reducing CO2 emissions. Since Methane is more damaging than Carbon Dioxide, it might not make too much sense to plant more trees if the methane they produce outweighs the benefits of the CO2 they would absorb.
Even more importantly, plants increase their methane output as the temperature rises. This of course would just accelerate the Global Warming cycle as the trend continued.
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