Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
1–10 of 332 posts
Re: Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
#2That's a lot of trees though and it cancels out only a decade.
EDIT: I just looked it up: there are roughly 4-10 trillion trees on earth right now.
Re: Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
#3That's a lot of trees though and it cancels out only a decade. EDIT: I just looked it up: there are roughly 4-10 trillion trees on earth right now.
That is a lot of trees, but a decade’s worth is a lot of emissions
Re: Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
#4This makes me wonder - could trees be modified genetically to handle more CO2 in order to make this number lower? Could we, instead of trees, have huge walls made of plants that would consume our CO2?
Re: Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
#5It doesn't look like they factored in the CO2 emissions from planting that many trees.
The actual presentation:
https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2019/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/23744
Under a business-as-usual climate scenario our model suggests that warming would drive the loss of ~55 gigatons of carbon from the upper soil horizons by 2050. This value is around 12–17 per cent of the expected anthropogenic emissions over this period.
Re: Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
#6Noob question here: what is stopping nature doing this, seeds and all that?
Re: Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
#7I wonder if desert soil can be gradually converted to make the land fertile. That would definitely be helpful to convert a lot of land to plant trees which is currently of no particular use.
Any research or innovation on that front ?
Re: Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
#8Noob question here: what is stopping nature doing this, seeds and all that?
[deleted]
Re: Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
#9This makes me wonder - could trees be modified genetically to handle more CO2 in order to make this number lower? Could we, instead of trees, have huge walls made of plants that would consume our CO2?
https://www.imnovation-hub.com/society/pollution-eating-moss...
This might be something you are referring to.
Re: Planting 1.2T Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions
#10This makes me wonder - could trees be modified genetically to handle more CO2 in order to make this number lower? Could we, instead of trees, have huge walls made of plants that would consume our CO2?
We have been genetically modifying plants to maximize CO2 utilization for millenia.