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https://time.com/5620706/plant-trillion-trees-climate-change...
I wonder how these reforestations efforts in India and China compare in absolute numbers to the "trillion" figure cited in the study.
“We can’t let CHINA beat US on reforestation!”
Might be the trick
What is truly new, is that human activity in India and China alone is responsable of a 16% increase of leaf area. So, to quote original article:
> now that we know direct human influence is a key driver of the greening Earth, we need to factor this into our climate models
[0] https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2436/co2-is-making-earth-green...
[1] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/human-activity-in-china-an...
Some more information on the actual amount of tree planting in china. >China has been conducting what the United Nations has said is the world’s largest tree planting crusade, which increased its forest coverage from 8.6 per cent in 1949 to 21.7 per cent last year. >By March this year, the total area covered by China’s artificial forests reached 69.3 million hectares, larger than the size of France, according to the…
Are these commercial plantations? And what is the biodiversity in the forests?
> Another 32% there – and 82% of the greening seen in India – comes from intensive cultivation of food crops.
And there isn't enough biodiversity to balance damage done elsewhere:
> The researchers point out that the gain in greenness seen around the world and dominated by India and China does not offset the damage from loss of natural vegetation in tropical regions, such as Brazil and Indonesia. The consequences for sustainability and biodiversity in those ecosystems remain.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/human-activity-in-china-an...
Some more information on the actual amount of tree planting in china. >China has been conducting what the United Nations has said is the world’s largest tree planting crusade, which increased its forest coverage from 8.6 per cent in 1949 to 21.7 per cent last year. >By March this year, the total area covered by China’s artificial forests reached 69.3 million hectares, larger than the size of France, according to the…
I was in rural Yunnan earlier this year. Drove for multiple hours on the highway. Everywhere was entire mountains covered in rows of a single species of trees. I'm not sure what the long term effects of such a widespread forest monoculture with no plant competition will result in.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't like these articles for the simple fact that climate change In all likelihood the human race will be killed by computers (hacked, robotics, software errors, hardware failures, and so on and so on.. pick one), and Not climate change. Just sayin.
Feels like you're assigning probabilities out of thin air. For example, not sure how hardware failures would wipe out the entire human race, or even cause the collapse of modern civilization across the planet - like every single piece of critical hardware in all major cities would somehow have to fail in a limited space of time. It would require controlled electricity (for lack of a better term) to spontaneously disa…
True, I did not run a probability study; however if one looks at the control that computers have on every facet of your existence and how often they fail--I'm pretty the odds would scare the fuck out of you.
> Not to mention there was nearly modern civilization before electronics were invented that we could fall back to.
You going down to the stream to fetch water when it no longer flows from your faucet?
> like every single piece of critical hardware in all major cities would somehow have to fail
Viruses could do it. People panic. Could you live a week without food or power? Please, I remember when Hurricane Sandy hit here in NY... it would not take much to turn society on its ear. Of course, I'm sure your right--after all Y2K never happened, and I mean who could foresee in 1983 that the future would actually be here in 17 LONG, LONG years.
This goes for a toss when correlated with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhous...
I was speaking to someone employed as a state forester recently and we were comparing maps we had brought to the meeting. He talked about how he had access to all sorts of cool maps like infrared and even aerial maps dating back to the early 1910's and 20's. I joked that those maps must just be the tops of endless forests (this was in a northern state known for its forests) and he said the images seen were the opposi…