jmagic wrote: ↑Sat Sep 01, 2018 6:59 am Cutting down trees may make for less shade, but not higher national temperatures. Also, old people like to complain about everything.

Kammekor wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 10:44 am

jmagic wrote: ↑Sat Sep 01, 2018 6:59 am Cutting down trees may make for less shade, but not higher national temperatures. Also, old people like to complain about everything.

Wrong for Cambodia and any other (sub)tropical forest.

The evapotranspiration in a forest is much higher than in other areas (fields, urban areas), and it has both a local cooling effect and a regional cooling effect.

Of course, one tree hardly makes a difference apart from the shade it provides, but covering a large area with trees does.

jmagic wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 12:05 pm

Kammekor wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 10:44 am

jmagic wrote: ↑Sat Sep 01, 2018 6:59 am Cutting down trees may make for less shade, but not higher national temperatures. Also, old people like to complain about everything.

Wrong for Cambodia and any other (sub)tropical forest.

The evapotranspiration in a forest is much higher than in other areas (fields, urban areas), and it has both a local cooling effect and a regional cooling effect.

Of course, one tree hardly makes a difference apart from the shade it provides, but covering a large area with trees does.

Bogus information. If so, certainly you can provide actual data to back up your claim. And, "an old man told me so" doesn't count.

jmagic wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 12:05 pm

Kammekor wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 10:44 am

jmagic wrote: ↑Sat Sep 01, 2018 6:59 am Cutting down trees may make for less shade, but not higher national temperatures. Also, old people like to complain about everything.

Wrong for Cambodia and any other (sub)tropical forest.

The evapotranspiration in a forest is much higher than in other areas (fields, urban areas), and it has both a local cooling effect and a regional cooling effect.

Of course, one tree hardly makes a difference apart from the shade it provides, but covering a large area with trees does.

Bogus information. If so, certainly you can provide actual data to back up your claim. And, "an old man told me so" doesn't count.

Tropical forests show strong daily cooling of −2.41±0.10 °C because of the consistent cooling during both day and night.

With lower albedo, forests absorb more shortwave radiation during daytime (positive shortwave anomalies ΔSW in Supplementary Fig. 3a), potentially leading to a warming effect. However, this net energy gain is offset by a greater latent heat loss via higher ET in forests (positive ΔET, Fig. 3b), resulting in a cooling effect.

jmagic wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 12:05 pm

Kammekor wrote: ↑Sun Sep 02, 2018 10:44 am

jmagic wrote: ↑Sat Sep 01, 2018 6:59 am Cutting down trees may make for less shade, but not higher national temperatures. Also, old people like to complain about everything.

Wrong for Cambodia and any other (sub)tropical forest.

The evapotranspiration in a forest is much higher than in other areas (fields, urban areas), and it has both a local cooling effect and a regional cooling effect.

Of course, one tree hardly makes a difference apart from the shade it provides, but covering a large area with trees does.

Bogus information. If so, certainly you can provide actual data to back up your claim. And, "an old man told me so" doesn't count.