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ThurberMingus · 1581 days ago · link · · parent · post: Can we sequester all of our C02 with trees? [Update: No]
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.