Planting Trillions of Trees will Cancel Out Decades of CO2 Emission say Scientists

[nikkihaley]

Planting Trillions of Trees will Cancel Out Decades of CO2 Emission say Scientists

There is enough room in the world’s existing parks, forests, and abandoned land to plant trillions of additional trees, which would have the CO2 storage capacity to cancel out decades of carbon dioxide emissions, according to a new analysis by ecologist Thomas Crowther and colleagues at ETH Zurich, a Swiss university.

Trees are “our most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change,” Crowther told The Independent. Combining forest inventory data from 1.2 million locations around the world and satellite images, the scientists estimate there are 3 trillion trees on Earth — seven times more than previous estimates. But they also found that there is abundant space to restore millions of acres of additional forests, not counting urban and agricultural land.

“There’s 400 gigatons [of CO2 stored] now in the 3 trillion trees,” Crowther said. “If we were to scale that up by Planting trillions of more trees, that’s in the order of hundreds of gigatons captured from the atmosphere – and anthropogenic emissions will completely be wiped out.”

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk...rees-lots-them

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/plantin...cientists-find



and there are more than 2000 species of trees with

edible fruits and nuts and berries and olives and

trees have medicinal properties.

trees produce 21 Million calories per acre

trees produce oxygen and wealth and wildlife habitat and food and timber.



cows produce 1 Million calories per acre

cows produce

Methane which is 30 times higher effect heat-trapping greenhouse gas

[triception]

I'm onboard with planting trees everywhere possible

[DemiBrah]

Kind of an aspie thought here but if we could find a way to accelerate redwood growth we could use them as living spaces as well and solve two problems

[phikappa]

So about tree fiddy?

[Weaver14]

Who’s going to pay to plant all those trees?

[GoldStorm]

No that cant be; only taxing people and government programs can save the planet, silly scientists.

[NukYavlen]

No chit

[All-Star11]

from a COMPLETELY ignore point of view...how does the CO2 way up in the atmosphere get down to the 0-100 feet where the trees are?
is it always moving and mixing around? I have no idea

[jeshelton]

[amikaelmorris]

i like trees.

[sammywatkins]

Who’s going to pay to plant all those trees?

Mexico

[Retoaded]

wonder how much these guys got paid to come up with this groundbreaking theory.

I have a new one: trillions of dollars could end poverty. pay me.

[Weaver14]

Mexico

We could just ban c02? Like Chicago did with guns, worked well for them

[NukYavlen]

wonder how much these guys got paid to come up with this groundbreaking theory.

I have a new one: trillions of dollars could end poverty. pay me.

Lmao imagine getting paid for this chit.

[AltarOfPlagues]

make it a zillion

[ANIMALISTIKZ]

Treecels will stop at nothing

[ymer]

from a COMPLETELY ignore point of view...how does the CO2 way up in the atmosphere get down to the 0-100 feet where the trees are?
is it always moving and mixing around? I have no idea

[pharmgator01]

Do you know how big a trillion is?

[RainingBlood]

from a COMPLETELY ignore point of view...how does the CO2 way up in the atmosphere get down to the 0-100 feet where the trees are?
is it always moving and mixing around? I have no idea

- Plants use CO2 and H2O to make num nums.
- Law of diffusion states that things in higher concentration want to move to lower concentration (kind of like spraying a bottle of cologne in an empty room, you know how the cologne doesn't get sucked back up into the bottle?).
- As CO2 levels decrease down here from carbon fixation...

[keyboardworkout]

The Grand Solar Minimum is going to solve this problem for us.

[Retoaded]

Lmao imagine getting paid for this chit.

And we wonder why scientists eagerly promote global warming hysteria to the point of manipulating data.

[EarlA]

Do you know how big a trillion is?

One million millions

[ChristianMR]

Welp, that's an easy solution. $20 a tree times 10 trillion... carry the one... drop the 0...

Spoiler!

About 3 times the GDP of the entire fukking world. Sounds feasible.

[Legacyx]

Welp, that's an easy solution. $20 a tree times 10 trillion... carry the one... drop the 0...

Spoiler!

About 3 times the GDP of the entire fukking world. Sounds feasible.

doesn't have to be done in one day m8

[RushEm]

all that to cancel out a few measly decades?

what happens in year 2100 when we run out of room and are producing 100x the CO2 we are today?

just lol. Talk about trying to save a sinking ship with a bucket

[ChristianMR]

doesn't have to be done in one day m8

Of course not, but it's still uneconomical. Countries currently spend only about 5% of their GDP (or less) on defense. If the world spent the same amount on tree planting (which is nuts -- no country has that much free revenue), it would take 60 years to arrive at the figure I provided. We would be on a hamster wheel at such a rate, spending 60 years to address several decades.

[EarlA]

Welp, that's an easy solution. $20 a tree times 10 trillion... carry the one... drop the 0...

Spoiler!

About 3 times the GDP of the entire fukking world. Sounds feasible.

Buy seeds. 1,000 seeds for $30. Must be even cheaper at wholesale

[ChristianMR]

Buy seeds. 1,000 seeds for $30. Must be even cheaper at wholesale

You have to actually plant them though (and curate them into adulthood). That's the expensive part.

[EarlA]

You have to actually plant them though. That's the expensive part.

Buy 2 trillion seeds. Load them up in planes and drop them everywhere. At least half will become trees. Let nature do what it does.

[jamalfudge]

The Grand Solar Minimum is going to solve this problem for us.

This.