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Very long and fluffy article with only three points (reiterated several times): - Fungi currently store 1/3 of our yearly emissions (so, each year we emit 3 ti
by yetihehe 3y ago
Very long and fluffy article with only three points (reiterated several times):
- Fungi currently store 1/3 of our yearly emissions (so, each year we emit 3 times as much as current stored carbon pool, they don't store 1/3 of each year emissions)
- China emits less than 1/3 of our yearly emissions
- We published a paper[0] on this, but could use some funding for research to maybe store some more carbon in fungi.
From skimming actual paper we can see that there is 1/3 FLUX of our CO2 emissions to fungi, but I didn't read enough to see what happens next (some of it is probably stored).
[0] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00167-7 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)...
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI assume by “our” you mean “every nation other than China?” The diction and style leads me to assume LLM authorship, FWIW The conclusion I got from the paper was mostly that it’s about soil preservation efforts than building fungus sequestration. It would be hard to build at a similar scale to all soil on earth.
- yetihehe 3y agoNo, by "our" I mean humanity (non-natural emissions), including China.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoHah my bad