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They are part of the natural carbon cycle without which plants would pile up like they did in the carboniferous. Plants are only temporary carbon sequestration
by JulianMorrison 7y ago
They are part of the natural carbon cycle without which plants would pile up like they did in the carboniferous.
Plants are only temporary carbon sequestration. The actual sequestration is in the standing-wave of growing, living, dying, decomposing material.
- autokad 7y agoyou are wrong. in north america, forests sequester layers of methane in burred layers of rotted material that are supposed to keep building up. however, the arrival of the earth worm has been releasing those layers of methane into the atmosphere and destroying forest layers.