Either way, some industry professionals say that documentaries are going to continue to take up more space at the multiplexes.
While many people continue to take up ballroom dancing for the pleasure of it, for others it has become more of a sport.
Scientists cannot really say whether trees will continue to take up a big proportion of our carbon emissions through the rest of this century, or whether they will instead succumb to climate change on a large scale.
"Is it true that the forests of the Eastern U.S. will continue to take up carbon?" said Paul R. Moorcroft, a Harvard professor who framed many of the issues for me.
Despite the troubles of recent years, forests continue to take up a large amount of carbon, with some regions, including the Eastern United States, being especially important as global carbon absorbers.
Running a large-scale computer simulation in which forests interacted with a changing global climate through the course of the 21st century, the Cox group found that forests would continue to take up carbon until about 2050.
He writes about the resentment younger writers may feel toward "the gray-haired scribes" who "continue to take up space and consume the oxygen in the increasingly small room of the print world".
For starters, it is quite clear, as I pointed out in my article, that forests over all continue to take up far more carbon dioxide than they are losing.
