GeorgeK
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Trees won't begin to take much carbon in until they are properly going in 10-20 years time. This won't be in time to prevent the melting of perma frost, methane release and runaway climate change. Building organic matter on tired arable starts absorbing co2 immediatelyIf the quoted '30,000 hec per year' of new planting is correct, each new plantation might be grabbing something like 100,000-200,000 tonnes of carbon (dry weight of timber) per year.
So the maths could equal......
But.... only while they're young and growing. 100 years later...where is all that carbon?
Meantime, new runways still being built.
The headlines are that maybe we farmers aren't going to be too bent out of shape,
but the whole house of cards is still built on no foundations whatsoever.
with the US able to elect Trumpty, what hope is there?