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In fact, I took his statement the other way: At one point, there was some n amount of CO2 in the air. A tree was planted. Through a few biological cycles, CO2
by nathannecro 12y ago
In fact, I took his statement the other way:
At one point, there was some n amount of CO2 in the air.
A tree was planted. Through a few biological cycles, CO2 is exchanged and stored as various sugars within the wood.
Burning the wood releases the CO2 back into the air.
This is a net zero process.
- eru 12y agoOn a large enough time scale burning coal is net zero, too. (It's just, that we don't care about these scales.)
- nathannecro 12y agoI happen to agree with you; just pointing out what I thought OP meant.
- dredmorbius 12y agoThe impacts of release (or sequestration) on those scales on other ecological systems are non-trivial. Which is why we care about those releases.