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Carbon in trees is still part of the carbon cycle, it will eventually be released again though it may be buffered for a time. That's merely neutral as opposed t
by thinkcontext 8y ago
Carbon in trees is still part of the carbon cycle, it will eventually be released again though it may be buffered for a time. That's merely neutral as opposed to negative that you get with sequestration.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoTrue, and the current CO2 problem is exactly because of that eventual release - it's just that the CO2 was locked in oil and coal from millions of years ago. Growing trees would work, but only as long as their decomposition can be stopped (like it did when coal formed) or at least limited so that not all their CO2 is released and a big part of it returns into the ground. But, major tree growing operations are already being done, lots of companies are into the CO2 trading business where growing trees = an X amount of CO2 emission rights they can sell to CO2 producing companies / factories.