@HistoPol@arstechnica
Better plant grasslands then. Redwood forests tend towards an overall density of 80 trees/acre. That's 160 kg * 80 trees per year or about 12 tons of carbon removed (or about three car-years' worth). Grassland ecologies can do about 49 tons per acre, and all without destroying your native ecology. But if you really want to cut down carbon emissions in the UK, stop trying to have US-style car centrism and bring back bikes and public transit.
So, this begins to explain why the carbon-offset programs for #reforestation never seem to have been a good idea from the beginning, if even the #GiantSequoias are not really up to the task.
I just tried to read up on the subject.
The #Nature article is beyond my #biochemical knowledge, alas. I could not find any quantification. Also, it seems to vary depending...
It seems that, as with the introduction of new animals (#neobiota, e.g. rabbits to #Australia) the introduction of new plants( #neophytes*) can be a huge source of disruption regional #ecosystems as well.
After reading through the aforementioned article about #grasslands, I now begin to understand the complexities involved.
...of view, any such prospective change (#e.g. #reforestation) will involve a #ChaoticSystem. These are sensitively dependent on initial conditions, something better known as the #ButterflyEffect.
So, as your example shows, by trying to "fix" the #climate we might actually be making things even worse.
I'm not a biologist or climatologist, but there are seem...
...of view, any such prospective change (#e.g. #reforestation) will involve a #ChaoticSystem. These are sensitively dependent on initial conditions, something better known as the #ButterflyEffect.
So, as your example shows, by trying to "fix" the #climate we might actually be making things even worse.
"The net #CarbonSink in grasslands worldwide intensified over the last century (Fig. 2), mainly driven by North #America, #Europe
and #Russia."
"However, climate change drivers contributed a net carbon sink in soil organic matter, mainly from the
increased productivity of grasslands due to increased #CO2 and #nitrogen deposition.
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