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mk · 1601 days ago · link · · parent · post: Can we sequester all of our C02 with trees? [Update: No]
Decomposition is via organisms, that’s the primary method of soil creation. Fossil fuels don’t need anoxic burial of the organisms. They are created when you have large organic deposits under deep earth pressures.
ThurberMingus · 1601 days ago · link ·
Right. But the carbon still had to be in the deposit. At this point I'm speculating that if the trees in a forest [no fires] sequester X tons per year for Y years [longer than lifetime of trees], the Total Sequestered Carbon << X×Y, unless something is done to prevent typical decay. I think most of the carbon cycles and not much is sequestered once the forest is mature. Though now I'm realizing that the zero-to-maturity sequestration is probably more important than the post-forest-maturity sequestration.