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Which Trees Offset Global Warming Best?
ThoughtCo ^ | March 29, 2017

Posted on 07/26/2017 6:58:39 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Which Trees Offset Global Warming Best?

Some trees are better than others at absorbing carbon dioxide

by Earth Talk
Updated March 29, 2017

Trees are important tools in the fight to stave off global warming because they absorb and store the key greenhouse gas emitted by our cars and power plants, carbon dioxide (CO2), before it has a chance to reach the upper atmosphere where it can help trap heat around the Earth’s surface.

ALL PLANTS ABSORB CARBON DIOXIDE, BUT TREES ARE BEST

While all living plant matter absorbs CO2 as part of photosynthesis, trees process significantly more than smaller plants due to their large size and extensive root structures.


In essence, trees, as kings of the plant world, have much more “woody biomass” to store CO2 than smaller plants, and as a result, are considered nature’s most efficient “carbon sinks”.It is this characteristic which makes planting trees a form of climate change mitigation.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), tree species that grow quickly and live long are ideal carbon sinks. Unfortunately, these two attributes are usually mutually exclusive. Given the choice, foresters interested in maximizing the absorption and storage of CO2 (known as “carbon sequestration”) usually favor younger trees that grow more quickly than their older cohorts. However, slower growing trees can store much more carbon over their significantly longer lives.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: co2; fakescience; globalwarming; tree
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To: trebb

See my #40. Grass & corn = similar analysis: The “reverse” side of the cycle happens quickly too, with little net gain over a year or less.


41 posted on 07/27/2017 6:19:41 AM PDT by Paul R. (I don't want to be energy free, we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world. -D. Trump)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Correct answer? None of the above because there is no global warming. (Don’t ACCEPT THE PREMISE!)


42 posted on 07/27/2017 6:19:45 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (If GOP won House, Senate and Presidency...why are the Democrats still in charge?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Answer: Trees that are cut down to make a log cabin that lasts 300 years sitting on a stone foundation. No concrete(unless you mortar the stones), no drywall, no paint, no insulation.


43 posted on 07/27/2017 6:25:55 AM PDT by Pollard (TRUMP 2016)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Correct: You have to have the right tree species and the right growing conditions to get the “right” wood characteristics of correct and “even” density, damping, and stiffness (of the wood).

If the Russkis had such a resource in Siberia, I’m pretty sure they’d be using it. :-)


44 posted on 07/27/2017 6:30:29 AM PDT by Paul R. (I don't want to be energy free, we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world. -D. Trump)
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To: Pollard

Actually, concrete is not as major a CO2 contributor as is often claimed, if one examines the entire cycle: Curing concreter absorbs CO2.

Granted, there is concrete in Hoover Dam that is still not “fully” cured. :-)


45 posted on 07/27/2017 6:35:11 AM PDT by Paul R. (I don't want to be energy free, we want to be energy dominant in terms of the world. -D. Trump)
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To: Reeses

Your image lacks dinosaurs.

I cannot give the image credence without dinosaurs.

There’s a moon (of Saturn or Jupiter, I forget) and it is full of hydrocarbons.

Sadly, that moon also lacks dinosaurs for some reason.


46 posted on 07/27/2017 7:15:28 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Trump's election does not release you from your prepping responsibilites!)
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To: Paul R.
Thanks.

I found your post (to quote Arte Johnson), verrrry interesting.

47 posted on 07/27/2017 8:31:42 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Peter ODonnell

Only in CO, OR, WA.


48 posted on 08/06/2017 6:16:56 PM PDT by correctthought (Oh goody, another lefty riot.)
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