Originally posted by RedCedar
Burning trees would be part of forest clearing.
My calculations do not account for bushfires that kill trees.
As I said before , trees are unable to make any real impression in reducing our CO2 footprint.
People say the world will regreen with more CO2 but that is a fallacy as CC will create a hotter and drier conditions in part of the world. Southern Australia will get drier, the Sahara will expand and the Amazon will lose much of its tropical forest.
We need technologies that can be scaled up to suck up and store CO2 in the medium term until things like nuclear fusion are developed.
RedC
Enough of the BS!!!!
Ever heard of Chicken Little?
Cut the global population to 1 billion and you have solved the problem.
The planet is always changing and in spite of what you believe life on the planet adapts to the changes or becomes extinct not vice versa. Get used to the fact that sometime in the distant future your descendants will probably live in the ocean.
Your smart a comment re the dinosaurs not building an asteroid proof bunker is ludicrous.....whether it was an asteroid or environmental change is not the point....the point is in either case it was something they had no control over as is the case now. There have been many mass extinctions (see below). if it was CO2 where did it come from?....should those dinosaurs have been using solar panels or wind turbines instead of their coal fired power stations and cooking on wood fired stoves?
I say again...in all of the mass extinction events with absolutely no industrial process or significant use of fossil fuel on the entire planet (because there was no fossil fuel initially) where did the CO2 come from?
The current propaganda being spread at the present time is a huge financial scam ala Y2K bug and the Ozone depletion....everyone wants to be in on the gravy train.
The GW has become a cult...a bit like those that buy an ab blaster because some celebrity on TV says you can get a six pack in only 30 days if you use it for 2 minutes a day....any rational person knows it is BS but they sell thousands anyway.
There is always a money trail....follow the money.
There have been five mass extinction events throughout Earth's history:
1. The first great mass extinction event took place at the end of the
Ordovician, when according to the fossil record, 60% of all genera of
both terrestrial and marine life worldwide were exterminated.
2. 360 million years ago in the Late Devonian period, the environment that had
clearly nurtured reefs for at least 13 million years turned hostile
and the world plunged into the second mass extinction event.
3. The fossil record of the end Permian mass extinction reveals a staggering
loss of life: perhaps 80–95% of all marine species went extinct. Reefs
didn't reappear for about 10 million years, the greatest hiatus in reef
building in all of Earth history.
4. The end Triassic mass extinction is estimated to have claimed about half of all marine
invertebrates. Around 80% of all land quadrupeds also went extinct.
5. The end Cretaceous mass extinction 65 million years ago is famously
associated with the demise of the dinosaurs. Virtually no large land
animals survived. Plants were also greatly affected while tropical
marine life was decimated. Global temperature was 6 to 14°C warmer than
present with sea levels over 300 metres higher than current levels. At
this time, the oceans flooded up to 40% of the continents.
