These include the effects that trees have on local atmospheric chemistry and potentially the clouds above them;
until these are fully understood it is somewhat difficult to attribute a «temperature benefit» of a specific magnitude to a given
afforestation scenario.
Before the act was passed, BK Singh, director of the state - run
Afforestation and Eco-Development Board, told Thomson Reuters Foundation that, once it became law, the government and its rural machinery would concentrate on putting it into practice, leaving little money for anything else
until after next year's elections.