Shy, trees DON'T release 'most of their carbon' back into the air when they die. I speak from direct Archived Message
Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on October 5, 2019, 8:56 pm, in reply to "Um, its a steady state even without burying ..."
observation of local woodlands, over decades; as well as from the technical record. In fact, much of the tree's dead body never leaves the wood, since, even whilst it's alive, it's constantly getting eaten by wood-consuming life-forms; and after it's dead... These neighbours simply take over the wood-stored carbon and re-sequester it back into the life-cycles of the forest, particularly the heavingly-busy soil (which just goes on getting thicker and thicker, enormously-so, for as long as the forest/grassland is left in peace - with its browsing/grazing herds intact, natch...) And then, there's photosynthesis of carbon out of the air by the forest's/grassland's green aerials; a process which, globally, also never sleeps; which indeed gets massively more luxuriant as CO2 levels, and mean temperatures, increase. We've been there before, several times, palaeontologically-speaking: one of Mam's multitudinous negative feedback loops for the purpose of planetary homoeostasis, working alongside the sinking of ocean coccoliths to form limestone, as you describe; and numerous other re-balancing mechanisms, some of them hardly understood by us even now. 'Man the master of all things' indeed! Such mullarkey!
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- Why Planting Trees Won't Save the Planet - scrabb October 5, 2019, 2:25 pm
- Yeah, but the planet doesn't neeed 'saving', that would be *us* - mack October 5, 2019, 5:09 pm
- Old, wrong argument. And it says nothing about the sheep. [Sheep? Yes really!] - - Rhisiart Gwilym October 5, 2019, 5:47 pm
- Um, its a steady state even without burying ... - Shyaku October 5, 2019, 7:49 pm
- Apologies to all, but I agree with Dr Gray. Forests are a temporary repository.. - David Macilwain October 6, 2019, 2:07 am
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