Planting trees to counter carbon emissions won't work

[robkelk]

Skip the "turn them into high char charcoal" part - that process would produce greenhouse gasses, which is what the whole "plant a tree to offset carbon" idea is supposed to reduce.

So it'll take a few more millennia to turn the wood into coal or oil...
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Rob Kelk
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