tarheel91 on 10 December 2007
| Parokki said: I don't remember the explanation all that well, but it was pretty technical stuff about cutting down all the forests resulting in the high and low pressure areas getting messed up, thus resulting in an unusually high amount of hurricanes and tornados. Or maybe it was just that flat areas near oceans tend to have nasty weather, and it wasn't as bad as it is now when the place was covered in trees. It sounded logical to me many years ago, and I still don't know jack about how the weather works. You sound like you should definitely know about it if it's real, so I'll just forget all about it then. =P |
Forests absorb heat and take in a ton of CO2. Temperature wise, they kind of balance themselves out. High and low pressure stuff really isn't affect by trees THAT much. Air masses, wind, and the like all result from the uneven heating of the Earth and the natural process of heat moving from the equator to the poles. I don't think trees would play too much of a role in it. Then again, my teacher is an idiot who's using a good teacher's materials, so I could have just not heard of it.
