In what will surely become a political issue, at least for the Green Party of Canada, scientists now report that Canadian forests – the “lungs of the planet” – have become carbon dioxide emitters rather than sequestering this greenhouse gas.

These 1.2 million square miles of greenery gained their fame, and their name, by covering seven percent of the world’s surface and absorbing phenomenal quantities of carbon dioxide, whose atmospheric rise since the industrial revolution is believed to be causing climate change, also known as global warming.

With two cold winters in a row, the global warming camp is currently facing serious opposition. In spite of that, 66 percent of Canadians still feel climate change is a serious and growing threat to the habitability of the earth in general, and their beautiful country in particular.
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