Land clearing is far worse than logging, but I haven't seen no study that shows logging is beneficial.
It can be still hazardous to biodiversity of plant and animal species. Besides that there is the usual burn off that takes place for the waste materials such as branches, cutting out the road tracks etc.. which adds to climate change in the forms of carbon soot and CO2 emissions.
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"Natural climate forces can not be underestimated, but no climate model produced can show the speed of the melting in the Arctic that has occurred without adding human contributed emissions." A Physicist from the U.S Army.
http://www.theage.com.au/frontpage/2.../frontpage.pdf
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