Well, no…actually…but a report suggests that higher temperatures will cause more trees to release CO2 through respiration than they’ll sequester through photosynthesis.
Not good.
“We are only able to state that the slowing in growth that we observed is consistent with the hypothesis that increases in temperature will cause decreases in tree growth,” explained one of the researchers, Joseph Wright, from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
If this is the case, in the future tropical forests could emit large amounts of carbon dioxide, write the researchers.