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Doesn’t a forest tie up the carbon in live trees? A mature forest will be more or less carbon neural but a certain amount of carbon won’t be available to the at
by torpfactory 8y ago
Doesn’t a forest tie up the carbon in live trees? A mature forest will be more or less carbon neural but a certain amount of carbon won’t be available to the atmosphere.
- ForHackernews 8y agoThe trees will die eventually. The problem is that we've released a lot of CO2 from trees that died millions of years ago.[0] If you want to get that out of the atmosphere, it's not good enough to grow trees today because in 50-100 years (or whenever a tree dies) you're right back where we are today. [0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01/07/the-fantastically-strange-origin-of-most-coal-on-earth/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/01...
- gascan 8y agoThe tree which dies is replaced by a new tree. You're right that we've added more carbon than can be stored in living forests. But reversing deforestation can & should be part of the solution.