Posted on 02/15/2026 9:25:46 AM PST by Eleutheria5
Planting trees on 6.4 million hectares of northern taiga forest could remove 3.9 gigatons of CO2 by 2100 — five times Canada's annual emissions.
Canada could remove more than five times its annual carbon emissions from the atmosphere by the end of the century by planting trees along the northern edge of its boreal forest, a new study suggests.
In recent decades forests have slowly moved north in response to climate change — in particular the taiga area on the edge of the boreal forest, the massive belt of forest stretching across northern Canada, Europe, and Russia, where it transitions to Arctic tundra. This movement suggests a potential way to boost carbon sequestration in the area, said study lead author Kevin Dsouza, a postdoctoral researcher in Earth and environmental sciences at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
"What is the potential for reforestation in these regions, and how much carbon could they sequester?" he told Live Science.
In the new study, his team used satellite data to identify forest composition and empty spaces in the northern boreal forest, and ran simulations using models from the forestry industry that included fire probabilities, climate variables, seedling mortality and land type to estimate how much carbon the ecosystem could sequester over the next 75 years.
The simulations identified around 6.4 million hectares (15.8 million acres) of land suitable for reforestation — an area about twice the size of Vancouver Island — across Canada's north. Planting trees on this land would remove almost 4 gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere by 2100, about five times Canada's current annual emissions. But that 6.4 million hectares is a fairly conservative estimate of the available land, Dsouza said. Scaling it up to 32 million hectares (79 million acres) could sequester almost 20 gigatons.
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Seriously. Still flogging this nonsense
In the big picture it would be nothing ,LOL
Seriously. Still flogging this nonsense
Earth is a Carbon Based planet and has X amount of Carbon and it will never change
Israel has been planting trees steadily for the past 100 years. Trees are Zionist, therefore racist! Strike a blow for Palestine, start a forest fire!/apparently a real policy.
Try trimming the brush around electric lines. A no-brainer. But the idiots think that causes climate change.
Due to global warming, they need to plant palm trees.
Turning tundra into forest does sound disruptive to an established ecosystem
I am conservative Catholic going to a Traditional Latin Mass parish just at the northern end of California’s central valley where, because “Trads”, as we call ourselves, will typically drive 100s miles to get to a TLM, we have members of a “commuter parish” who live out of our agricultural zone, in timberlands. (One family drives 3 1/2 hours each way.) There’s nothing up there for 100s of miles but trees, trees & more trees until you could lose your mind for them. I heard a professional forester say that after clear cutting their timberlands, the State of California won’t permit foresters to replant harvested lands with seedling trees.
Academic buffoonery. A ‘study’ that will languish in the archives, never to be seen or read again.
Yeah... But we need paper strows... And we need to chop down twice that many trees to supply fast food chains with paper straws.
They can’t manage the trees they have We don’t need more trees with forest fires smoking up the US.
Both of you are absolutely correct. The Law of Conservation of Mass dates from Antoine Lavoisier’s 1789 discovery that mass is neither created nor destroyed. The ignorance of the environmentalists is astounding.
The Israelis have demonstrated that increasing greenhouse CO2 concentrations to 600–1,000 ppm (up from 400 ppm ambient) significantly boosts photosynthesis, accelerating growth, improving plant health, and increasing yields by up to 30% or more. God has created the ultimate carbon control system.
Canada is already carbon negative, so much so that it probably can soak up anything the US puts out as well to keep US carbon negative. Carbon is not an issue regardless.
“Due to global warming, they need to plant palm trees.”
In Far Rockaway, where I used to live, there are the grounds of a burnt-out mansion that was turned into a bird sanctuary by the Audobon society, and in that sanctuary, there is a cactus, badly damaged by frost, but it comes back every year to continue hanging on but just barely.
An early climate-change pioneer?
“Unless the dead trees (all trees die eventually) are sequestered (buried) they will rot. Their carbon will be released into the atmosphere as mostly methane which will then decay via sunlight into CO2 and H20.”
This is correct unless the trees fall into acidic soils, bogs or swamps. Then the acid and anaerobic environment preserve the wood and eventually turn it first to lignite, then it goes down the coal forming process. These environments form peat soils as well and mixed with wood fall that form coal swamps and coal bogs.
Humans can replicate this process using shallow dug depressions lined with HDPE waterproof lining then dumping in wood wastes and dead falls instead of anaerobic way conditions you want to go be bone dry and you add salt simple seasalts work or mined rock salts either way you need a water activity level below 0.60 that’s 60% or less easy to achieve in a sealed and salted landfill cell. Wood in this.state is effectively petrified it can be stored for millions of years as no biological activity is possible and in a stable geological area it will just sit there until the continents move and subduction or uplift happens.
You can also bury wood under seawater into muds that are fully saturated with saltwater. Venice Italy is built on hundreds of thousands of wood piles driven directly into the lagoon mud floor. Wood piles from the 1300s are now as hard as stone and haven’t decayed because the lack of oxygen and the minerals in seawater petrified the wood. You could replicate this process anywhere in a lagoon, shallow ocean basin or places like the Black Sea where the entire deep basin is mud and acidic and oxygen depleted.
This happens to be the cheapest form of atmospheric carbon capture humans have yet to come up with, trees are cheap, landfills are cheap so is plastic sheets only need to me a couple mm thick and salt is dirt cheap literally.
It’s a shame to waste all that captured carbon though, trees make fine biomass pellets for stoves and boilers and fireplaces TSC has 40# bags of them for $6 all the time. Any of the hardwood species makes for fine BBQ pellets too. Birch,Alder both grow in the far north so does Maple..yum.
One tonne of wood also is 50% by dry mass 500kg in pure carbon which can be turned via plasma or steam gasification into syngas (CO+H2) lots of things eat both those gases. It’s 1800kg of CO2 if you combust it and capture it via oxyfire combustion or use a molten carbonate fuel cell or a SOFC any of those put put pure CO2 and water as exhaust. Biomass at $50 per tonne is $27 per tonne of high purity CO2 a commodity chemical currently at $60 or more per tonne.
Lanzatech has bacteria that eat both and turn out over 150 different chemicals. The big ones are Ethanol, butanol,acetone,butane,propane,ethylene. Their process is gas fermentation and it also makes at a 10:1 ratio pure protein from the bacterial cell cultures with all 9 essential amino acids aka food.
There are bacteria that can eat CO and H2 and make starch ,sugars, or liquid lipids and free fatty acids. Again we call that food or animal feeds.
Lipids and FFA can be mixed with ethanol , methanol or butanol and you get diesel fuel. One of my trucks can burn ethanol as is it’s FFV and the other can run on 100% biodiesel fuel.
Steam gasification or plasma fired gasification are endothermic they need energy this can come from burning some of the syngas itself a waste of it or you can use joule heating with very cheap off peak and/or intermittent electricity wholesale which in Texas go to zero amd negative on the regular.
You need something like this to store the heat and run your gasifier 24/7.
You need 600C not 1200+ so you can use any number of joule heating to storage solution. Sand, bricks,concrete,granite gravel, basalt gravel to name a few there is more than a dozen thermal energy storage groups each using joule heat to a cheap storage medium via a closed loop system or open loop air. The paradigm shift is wholesale power rates near zero or negative for 4-8 hours per day every day sometimes twice in Texas once at noon when the 30,000+ gigawatts of solar is peaked out and again in the middle of the night when West Texas wind is howling. You can watch the auctions on the ERCPT dashboards it’s a duck curve every day.
Point is wood is cheap air capture tech the cheapest there is it’s a shame to landfill it and loose all that valuable energy, food and carbon.
That’s just stupid.🙄
I would love to see Canucks rise up against their liberal tyrants and send them into the dust bin of history.
So does the Donald.
With the currently existing forest, Canada is ALREADY A CARBON SINK!
Looks like Iran will soon be free. What’s coming around the pike after that? I have high hopes.
Ic TRump can free Iran, he will be able to Free Canada from the liberal leftist tyrants who have a choke hold on Canada.
Meanwhile the state sponsored media of Canada pumps out anti American propaganda 24 / 7. Ihear TDS all then time up here in check out lines.I have stopped holding my tongue ...I ask them why Canadians have suddenly turned into mad hatters.
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