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NickB79

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6. The scale of reforestation needed is out of our reach now

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 10:43 AM

Jul 2016

We'd need to start converting massive amounts of farmland back to forest, and with global population projected to hit 10 billion in the next 50 years, we are not going to start doing that.

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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