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Originally Posted by Trexller
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thats really unfortunate for all the climate tards
and it doesn't even consider all the other small plants in the world, and furthermore ocean algae
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I'm not trying to argue with you or change your mind but I do want to point out the irony in claiming to value logic while simultaneously not understanding how a tree works. I honestly don't give a fuck about the climate at this point. IMO warm this bitch up to fuel the ingenious Western economies that will bring us AI paradise.
Assuming those numbers are correct, which I highly doubt they are (a quick search shows that at the very least, the CO2 released by humans number is wrong), and I'm not going to waste the effort looking, this guy's retarded math assumes every tree on Earth is growing and synthesizing the same amount of CO2... that is, not a single tree died, rotted, and returned its CO2, and that a 200 ft giant redwood sequestered the same amount of carbon in a year as the ficus on your granny's porch, ie, every tree on Earth acted like the "average tree"
In reality, Earth's trees, ignoring human effects, are in a state of equilibrium in which about as much carbon is being released by tree death, decay, and shedding of plant material as is being sequestered by growth. A tree grows, withdraws carbon from the atmosphere, then dies and returns it. Think about it... if Earth was putting away this much carbon every year, there wouldn't be any left in the atmosphere after a few decades. That is not how our ecosystem works. Factor in the rate at which humans are destroying trees and you have that much more carbon being returned into the atmosphere.
It's embarrassing that you guys are so gullible but then I'm also not surprised at this point. Like you actually read this and thought "oh wow, good point" without noticing the dude just straight up forgot about the concept of equilibrium.