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They tie up carbon for 100+ years, they're hardly irrelevant
by developer93 3y ago
They tie up carbon for 100+ years, they're hardly irrelevant
- mnky9800n 3y agoDepends on if you are a climatologist or a geologist.
- fluoridation 3y agoThey buy a little bit of time. That's it.
- hgomersall 3y agoNonsense, a region that is forested has a proportion of carbon locked up in biomass indefinitely. If that region is deforested and no longer has any carbon locked up in biomass that is unambiguously a net source of carbon.
- fluoridation 3y agoIt's not locked up, it's continuously flowing in and out of that ecosystem. It's only locked up when it gets buried and can't return back to the atmosphere (except through technology). There's any number of reasons why a forest could get disrupted and die out besides intentional deforestation.
- developer93 3y agoAdmittedly I haven't checked for sources, but I'm willing to bet that it's mostly man made these days, either direct deforestation or climate change.
- developer93 3y agoI hate to break it to you but we need all the time we can get. Also a rotting tree doesn't completely turn into gas, some of the carbon (I think 30%?) goes into the soil.