The Earth is getting greener
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The Earth is getting greener
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#2> industrial cropland typically produces more carbon emissions than it absorbs over the long term
Question about this: where does the extra carbon it emits come from? Is it already in the land beforehand?
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#3> industrial cropland typically produces more carbon emissions than it absorbs over the long term Question about this: where does the extra carbon it emits come from? Is it already in the land beforehand?
From trucks coming to and from fields?
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#4> industrial cropland typically produces more carbon emissions than it absorbs over the long term Question about this: where does the extra carbon it emits come from? Is it already in the land beforehand?
Fertilizer?
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> propagandists advancing world views detached from any empirical or rational belief
The linked article is entirely empirical, and frankly seems like a good explainer for the lay public to understand what's happening. Your post seems a little like a strawman. Are you arguing against anything in particular?
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#7> industrial cropland typically produces more carbon emissions than it absorbs over the long term Question about this: where does the extra carbon it emits come from? Is it already in the land beforehand?
I believe Vox slightly screwed this up but it's an understandable mistake: the article[1] refers to CO2 equivalent of emissions, not literal CO2. In particular methane from fertilizers seems to have a more negative impact on overall greenhouse gases than whatever CO2 the plants are absorbing.
[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acd5e8
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Except the rate of change in CO2 is far exceeding the rate of change of any compensatory process, and the replacement of natural plant growth with crops leads to excess methane release that more than compensates for the reduced CO2, so yeah. It’s not surprising, but it’s also insufficient.
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#10> industrial cropland typically produces more carbon emissions than it absorbs over the long term Question about this: where does the extra carbon it emits come from? Is it already in the land beforehand?
Petro chemical based fertilizer and gas powered equipment.