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The sarcasm is fine, but I have no sense of whether or not the point is even valid. Do you have any back of the napkin maths to illustrate how effective coverin
by yakshaving_jgt 5y ago
The sarcasm is fine, but I have no sense of whether or not the point is even valid. Do you have any back of the napkin maths to illustrate how effective covering the Earth’s land masses in trees would be, even if we could terraform all the big deserts? Planting a load of trees is at least actionable, but I wonder if it’s also futile.
- vbezhenar 5y agoPhytoplankton is what makes oxygen from CO2. Trees actually do not add much. IMO we should bioengineer phytoplankton to allow it to grow faster, so our oceans will just turn more CO2 into O2 and solve that issue.
- mariusor 5y ago... and in the process destabilize every other ecosystem in the ocean? I think that's a dangerous direction to go into without further insights into what kind unintended consequences there might be.
- yakshaving_jgt 5y agoI still have no sense of how feasible or efficacious that might be.
- gitanovic 5y agoWell, the carboniferous era would disagree with you :)
- pvaldes 5y ago> Trees actually do not add much Keywords: Plumes; Oceanography.