A group of Norwegian researchers wanted to understand how moose feeding affects boreal forests at high latitudes. Thesemake up nearly 30 percent of Earth’s forest area, and they capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in plants and soil.
It turns out moose disrupt that storage in a big way. Writing in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, researchers said they11 years of data on moose in Norwegian forest areas that had been cleared for lumber. Usually, the forest rebounds, and saplings and bushes quickly grow back. But when moose are on the loose in these areas, they graze on any and all vegetation, snacking on the saplings that would eventually repopulate those areas of forest and sequester carbon.
On the other hand, moose feeding also affected the reflectivity, or albedo, of the forests. By clearing the trees, the moose enable more light to reach, and bounce off, the forest floor. This cools the forest for years until the canopy recovers, the researchers write. “It was really a surprise to see how much moose can influence vegetation growth, the carbon cycle and the climate system,” Xiangping Hu, a researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and co-author of the study, said in a
Please tell me nobody paid to have that 'research'done
Fossil fuel industry: the moose did it!
What a completely misleading headline! 'Researchers set up 47 paired plots in areas that had been clearcut in the previous three years.' The research you're summarizing is about the repurcussions of clearcutting. Moose aren't the problem. Logging is the problem.
i don't care what he's done, you shouldn't do that to any moose
Kill everything. You people are gross.
A hungry Moose was WHAT
lol
Blaming the moose, which have inhabited earth well before human interference, is hilarious.
Let's bring everything into this climate change scheme. Because what is being sold isn't working.
Journalists are disgusting. Who in their right mind would ever finger a moose.
There are about 4000 times as many people as there are moose. Per capita, how much carbon is the average person responsible for, and the average moose. There are about 500 times as many cows as moose - same question. Are we really going to scapegoat moose?
Told you it's them Canadians....
Feck me, leave the sodding get animals alone. I am sure the 1% want to kill every living creature, we includedo off the planet for their own selfish ends.
You mean like sitting on this table in Hollywood..
Eliminate all animals to save the planet.
How about just “identified”? Or perhaps “looked into”? So many other options.
So ridiculous
I know that moose , he wouldn't do anything to harm anyone or Mother Earth. He's innocent. Leave him alone !
Atleast feed them before penitration. Whatever the effect on the planet, it’s the chivalrous thing to do.
Fucking moose, with their open cast mining, nuclear weapons and beef farms in the Amazon! You absolute clowncar outfit
Perhaps humans impact carbon levels more…perhaps.
They can't eat solar panels.
That quite the headline.
Oh come on, for god's sake
Jfc this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Certainly it's the moose and their eating habits, not carbon emissions from fossil fuel use, or bombs being dropped & tested, or massive vehicles of war traveling the globe to enforce imperialism Nah, it's the fucking MOOSE
You leave my wife’s labia out of this.
Shoot all the moose? When will everyone realise this Climate nonsense it total BS the sun has is and will always drive earths climate not man or cow farts or the eating habits of moose?
Did not have “WaPo headline beginning with the words ‘Hungry Moose Fingered’” on my bingo card this week.
Really? They’re trying to blame moose now? Couldn’t be all those huge coal factories or glutted highways. Must be the freaking moose. Ridiculous.
You should be embarrassed for publishing this
Poor moose
As if moose are the real problem here.
Human beings have planes, trains, automobiles, tractors, factories, factory farms, synthetic everything, chemicals everywhere, mindless unchecked consumerism that releases millions of pounds of toxins into the air every day and we're going to blame climate change on... moose?
There is no effect on climate change that is too trivial to investigate. Except human overpopulation.
People really shouldn’t be fingering hungry mooses
Reminds me of the reindeer study from years back which had the inverse. Either way, seems as if the tree line moving north constantly would be of more significance.
Yea right, moose are the problem….
oh yeah not us absolutely destroying the forests en masse around the globe it's the moose k
Bullwinkle J. Moose is going to be pissed off.
I'm so tired. Creatures of and from the earth are not the problem. Artificial materials and interrupted natural cycles are the problem l.
What oil company funded this?🤬
These are the kind of climate change reports that do nothing to convince people that something should be done. Focus on WATER! That's the one that should be terrifying all of us.
Oh boy and people fall for this 🙄
Use human ingenuity to adapt to nature in areas that are impacted adversely. From ice ages, drought, to storms, floods etc. Even if we had 100% effort from all the big offenders like India/China (which we don't) it'll take literally hundreds of years to impact CC even marginally.
Name one entity on the planet that has done more environmental damage to the world than our governments? 1089 nuclear devices detonated by the US government alone. Never trust those who do the most damage to clean it up! They want slaves not free people/Moose.
“On the other hand, [Norwegian] moose feeding also affected the reflectivity, or albedo, of the forests. By clearing the trees, the moose enable more light to reach, and bounce off, the forest floor. This cools the forest for years until the canopy recovers,”
Leave the moose alone
The Captain knew what he was up to years ago.
Laughable, we demand solar powered wildlife.
A hand full of moose ain't got a touch on the more than 100 million cars on the roads burning fossil fuels 24/7.
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“Hungry moose fingered…” The sheer humiliation these poor creatures have to endure just to get a bite to eat.
Why would they write it like that?
Still not a good enough reason to use 'fingered'
They did what now to the moose?
Moose: targeted by ridiculous “research” Volcano: *erupts*
Sure it could be moose. Or it could be 7 billion humans, burning wood and fossilized carbon. What a stupid fossil-lobby fueled piece of nonsense.
What a fucking ridiculous headline.
Good. Increase the out-of-state tag lottery.
The Climate Cult is the most insane of all religions but the Transgender Denomination of this Cult is surely the most insane of all, legalizing the rape of children in California to legalizing beastiality in Spain. BTW The Earth has been in a steady cooling period for 7000yrs.
As a Canadian, I highly recommend NOT fingering a hungry moose.
Cut back on the chocolate Mousse!
Jeez, this climate crap is ridiculous.
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Moose have lived in forests eating vegetables for thousands of years. And now it’s contributing to climate change Come on. Humans interrupted the balance.
1 moose?
Fingered? Odd choice of words
Climate science disinformation promoted by Boris and Natasha?
This is beyond ridiculous. I honestly can’t believe someone was PAID to write this drivel and not come to the conclusion that we should just kill all of the moose population. It’s that simple….climate saved ..🤦🏻♂️😂🤣😂
Fingering a hungry moose doesn't sound like a great idea.
HUMANS are the main cause of climate change and the only animal capable of stopping it. ...Everything farts, nothing 'farts' as much as humans do🙄