Oh, my. Mature forests do not absorb CO2. At best, they are CO2 neutral. If global warmists were serious about their fear of CO2, they'd want to cut down all of the mature forests (which produce CO2) and replace them with actively growing forests, which do absorb CO2. Then they would promote extensive use of wood and wood products, because once carbon is bound up in wood, it stays there for a long time, until the wood finally decays or is otherwise destroyed. They would even be researching new ways to use wood, because of wood's excellent natural ability to sequester carbon.
Early on, I sensed the scam in "global warming" alarmism, because of the fact that if global warmists were serious about wanting to remove CO2 from the environment, they'd want as many growing and as few mature forests as possible. But they don't--in fact, they throw hissy fits about logging. So the whole thing was an obvious scam from the get-go.
Excellent point. Thank you.