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An Introduction to Forest Carbon

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Re: An Introduction to Forest Carbon

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I vouched for this to bring it back from being auto-dead, but I'm still not sure if it's a ChatGPT experiment or a new real user. It's a not a bad comment exactly, but it seems slightly off. Goldenpreppy8, can you speak for yourself?

Judging by its subsequent comments, this is almost certainly AI-produced.

Seems likely, so I unvouched and flagged it. Thanks!

Re: An Introduction to Forest Carbon

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Forests play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, thanks for bringing light to this topic! They are critical by absorbing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. Carbon is stored in forests in a variety of forms, including in the trees, soil, and other organic matter. Here are some interesting points... -For example did you know forests are the largest terrestrial carbon si…

I vouched for this to bring it back from being auto-dead, but I'm still not sure if it's a ChatGPT experiment or a new real user. It's a not a bad comment exactly, but it seems slightly off. Goldenpreppy8, can you speak for yourself?

It gave me "AI generated" wibes before having read your comment too

Re: An Introduction to Forest Carbon

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Forests play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, thanks for bringing light to this topic! They are critical by absorbing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. Carbon is stored in forests in a variety of forms, including in the trees, soil, and other organic matter. Here are some interesting points... -For example did you know forests are the largest terrestrial carbon si…

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Re: An Introduction to Forest Carbon

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Not a bad write-up, but there's no way forests can significantly sequester fossil carbon from oil, gas and coal combustion at any meaningful rate. Mature forest is mostly in steady-state with respect to total carbon storage, as dead trees decay to atmospheric CO2 at the same rate that growing trees absorb atmospheric CO2: https://academic.oup.com/forestry/article/90/1/125/2605858 Limited harvesting of trees for conve…

Well a good start would be to cease logging of all redwoods, they take over a thousand years to reach steady state, and will continue sucking down carbon over that time(and the the larger the redwood the faster its absolute volume increases, so logging is idiotic). CA still has most of its redwood forests being actively logged, so much for faux environmentalism in liberal CA.
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