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Yeah, but they continually die in a cycle such that the overall CO2 levels never really get stored long term as it is all temporarily stored in the trees.
by mrep 8y ago
Yeah, but they continually die in a cycle such that the overall CO2 levels never really get stored long term as it is all temporarily stored in the trees.
- ceejayoz 8y agoYes, but putting a forest where there wasn't a forest increases the amount of stored CO2. It just doesn't keep increasing once the forest is mature.
- njarboe 8y agoMany species of trees in most forests can live for over a thousand years. So reaching "mature" could take that long. I imagine the stored carbon level keeps rising till then. The amount of carbon sequestered in a forest full of 4 meter diameter fir trees 75 meters tall is huge. In a mature giant sequoia forest one even has huge dead trees not rotting away for millennia.
- ceejayoz 8y agoIf you're looking to sequester carbon, you'll probably want something fast growing - pine, bamboo. Bonus points if (as with pine and bamboo) it can be used for construction, which'll potentially lock it up even longer.
- rebuilder 8y agoAll storage is temporary, in the end - the question is, how much time can we buy?