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no. Unless the tree vaporizes or burns, none of it gets back into the air. It is for all intents and purposes a permanent lock up. Mankind is the gatekeeper of
by shadowlight 5y ago
no. Unless the tree vaporizes or burns, none of it gets back into the air. It is for all intents and purposes a permanent lock up. Mankind is the gatekeeper of whether to unlock this carbon prison in our choice to burn oil or wood.
Trees aren't the complete solution and the reason why has nothing to do with the tree dying and releasing the carbon.
What's going on here is that plants are converting CO2 into mass. A tree that isn't growing isn't creating new mass and therefore isn't lowering carbon in the atmosphere.
- rupert1234 5y ago> converting CO2 into mass CO2 has mass. It's 1 carbon atom and 2 oxygen atoms. The idea there is new mass creation going on here is absurd. Study some physics.
- shadowlight 5y agoYour attitude is childish, immature and spineless. Someone like you wouldn't have the balls to say that in real life so you take it out anonymously on forums. Either way it's a technicality. I obviously meant "solid mass." CO2 must be converted to solid mass. Any person of normal brain power would've been able to figure out what I meant without delving into pointless pedantry. Go study humans and manners you lack experience with both.
- rupert1234 5y agoIt isn't converted into solid mass either. Study chemistry. Clueless.
- shadowlight 5y agoYou ever heard of Carbon based life? Guess where the carbon comes from. It's 100% converted into solid mass.