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Does planting Trees actually deliver carbon capture
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<blockquote data-quote="egbert" data-source="post: 7307584" data-attributes="member: 9965"><p>You're following it through well, - and it's very good that several here are thinking about/grasping some of the building blocks of what happens when you plant trees/burn oil. </p><p>And the OP letter is a good one- if open to discussion. (like...where will the carbon come from in a second crop of trees grown on former arable?)</p><p></p><p>But something I'm watching, and thinking about, is the long term storage. (decades/centuries...which i realise is a bit pathetic given the origin of the oil)</p><p>The boulders still poke through very ancient forests I've rummaged around, suggesting a carbon cycle involving the complex biome (is that the word?) once a forest has built carbon to a point, has a ceiling. </p><p>I can't find meters deep soil grown through sequestration anywhere short of saturated peat.</p><p></p><p>And where I've seen increased OM on my own pasture, the ground quickly becomes hugely unstable- it poaches (cattle) and/or ruts (tractors) very easily.</p><p>Oh, and I've planted woodland where canopy closure has left soil more vulnerable to erosion than it seemed before.</p><p></p><p>At the very least, it's complicated, and merely a smokescreen for the continued burning of fossil fuel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="egbert, post: 7307584, member: 9965"] You're following it through well, - and it's very good that several here are thinking about/grasping some of the building blocks of what happens when you plant trees/burn oil. And the OP letter is a good one- if open to discussion. (like...where will the carbon come from in a second crop of trees grown on former arable?) But something I'm watching, and thinking about, is the long term storage. (decades/centuries...which i realise is a bit pathetic given the origin of the oil) The boulders still poke through very ancient forests I've rummaged around, suggesting a carbon cycle involving the complex biome (is that the word?) once a forest has built carbon to a point, has a ceiling. I can't find meters deep soil grown through sequestration anywhere short of saturated peat. And where I've seen increased OM on my own pasture, the ground quickly becomes hugely unstable- it poaches (cattle) and/or ruts (tractors) very easily. Oh, and I've planted woodland where canopy closure has left soil more vulnerable to erosion than it seemed before. At the very least, it's complicated, and merely a smokescreen for the continued burning of fossil fuel. [/QUOTE]
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