silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 19 days agoDoes Burning Wood Actually Fight Climate Change? Despite industry claims, scientists say using wood pellets is little better than fossil fuels.thetyee.caexternal-linkmessage-square39fedilinkarrow-up1145
arrow-up1145external-linkDoes Burning Wood Actually Fight Climate Change? Despite industry claims, scientists say using wood pellets is little better than fossil fuels.thetyee.casilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square39fedilink
minus-squarefallaciousBasis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-218 days ago as the change in forest cover associated with that conversion results in similar emissions It doesn’t. The Amazon is still massive. Land use change had turned the Amazon into a source and not a sink of carbon. You can burn all the trees you want… Again. This is conserved. The carbon released will grow exactly that amount of new trees. Unless you also stop the cycle. Then we’re really fucked. Like 116F… Plants die. If the equatorial or other regions hit that consistently, desertification is guaranteed.
It doesn’t. The Amazon is still massive. Land use change had turned the Amazon into a source and not a sink of carbon.
You can burn all the trees you want… Again. This is conserved. The carbon released will grow exactly that amount of new trees.
Unless you also stop the cycle. Then we’re really fucked.
Like 116F… Plants die. If the equatorial or other regions hit that consistently, desertification is guaranteed.