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OKIsItJustMe

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2. Unfortunately, they don’t act all that quickly

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 6, 2016, 04:39 PM

Jul 2016

We need to lower CO₂ levels quite quickly, and in the distant past intact ecosystems seem to be able to do that at the rate of about 1 ppm/millennium.

We need to lower them ? 50 ppm in about as many years.

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Drought stalls tree growth and shuts down Amazon carbon sink [View all] OKIsItJustMe Jul 2016 OP

Carbon sinks -reforestation and such - may save us! yallerdawg Jul 2016 #1

Unfortunately, they don’t act all that quickly OKIsItJustMe Jul 2016 #2

Well, happily the future of perovskite solar cells is brighter, rain or no rain. How many more... NNadir Jul 2016 #5

The scale of reforestation needed is out of our reach now NickB79 Jul 2016 #6

I don't agree at all. yallerdawg Jul 2016 #7

Even if we could do that, sequestration via reforestation would take millenia to reduce CO2 NickB79 Jul 2016 #8

... and, in addition to Nick's post, there is one key phrase in the whole of your post: Nihil Jul 2016 #9

extremely significant finding. The prognosis keeps getting worser and worser. Bill USA Jul 2016 #3

Link to BBC article nitpicker Jul 2016 #4