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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: TigerLikesRooster

Redwood trees would be good. Let’s turn the entire left coast into a giant redwood forest.


21 posted on 07/26/2017 7:48:35 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: muleskinner
destroying their jungles for firewood


22 posted on 07/26/2017 7:53:36 PM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The question “Which Trees Offset Global Warming Best?” is obviously one asked by a leftist idiot. The answer is there is no such thing as Global Warming. It’s NEVER been proven to exist. It’s a nightmare of leftist origins with absolutely no proof whatsoever of existence.

Ask a leftist, Democrat, opportunist (redundant) for proof, and all you will get is double talk. A piece of a jigsaw puzzle they claim exists, but they cannot ever produce the entire puzzle to prove their case.

Until the left can prove those pieces they show as proof actually are a part of an overall jigsaw puzzle picture, their claims are total BS.


23 posted on 07/26/2017 7:58:18 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Baba Wawa: If you were a twee what twee would you be?


24 posted on 07/26/2017 8:02:23 PM PDT by xp38
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Which Trees Offset Global Warming Best?

From a scientific perspective the answer of course is christmas trees. You may have noticed that when many people put up christmas trees it gets cold; really, really cold.
Therefore, an effective way to fight global warming is to get a lot of people to put up christmas trees when it gets hot.

Anyone who denies the foregoing hates science and ignores the universal consensus of smart people everywhere.

25 posted on 07/26/2017 8:09:05 PM PDT by stormhill
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Aboring thread


26 posted on 07/26/2017 8:14:35 PM PDT by Daffynition (The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder” - The LSN didn’t make Trump, so they can’t break h)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Trees that fall on people.


27 posted on 07/26/2017 8:16:48 PM PDT by TChad
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"Which Trees Offset Global Warming Best?"


28 posted on 07/26/2017 8:17:13 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

Brilliant!


29 posted on 07/26/2017 8:19:15 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: TigerLikesRooster; All

I believe that the ocean is the primary source of O2 from photosynthesis.


30 posted on 07/26/2017 8:22:44 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Which Trees Offset Global Warming Best?

The ones we cut down and turn into lumber.

This sequesters the carbon for the longest time and is scientifically correct, even though it will explode liberal heads.

31 posted on 07/26/2017 8:34:14 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: TigerLikesRooster

You can’t cut trees and make houses, that will lower housing costs and lower taxes. We won’t be able to pay non-whites to not work and create art on the side of the freeway (some people call this tagging, but they are racist).


32 posted on 07/26/2017 9:23:04 PM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: Trumpet 1
All those trees growing in Siberian forest, would they be useful for making better violins? Or only special kind of trees are suitable?
33 posted on 07/26/2017 9:28:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: Trumpet 1
All those trees growing in Siberian forest, would they be useful for making better violins? Or only special kind of trees are suitable?
34 posted on 07/26/2017 9:29:13 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I prefer a warm planet to a cold one myself. Earth has been a lot warmer in the past and plants, animals and humans thrived in those periods.


35 posted on 07/26/2017 10:57:08 PM PDT by TigersEye (TTKTA)
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To: correctthought

LIVING trees are a good place to start.

Plant, Baby, Plant!!


36 posted on 07/26/2017 11:13:37 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

I did my part, planted close to 15 trees on my property.

How many did a sjw plant using their own money?


37 posted on 07/26/2017 11:20:49 PM PDT by correctthought (Oh goody, another lefty riot.)
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To: correctthought

Does pot count?


38 posted on 07/27/2017 1:21:15 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (The president is a good man -- that's why they are out to get him -- where have we seen this before?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
A year or so ago, there was an article about how the tree huggers were so worried about de-forestation, but the truth was that the grasslands that filled in the deforested areas were turning a lot more C02 into Oxygen.

This article claims that trees store a lot more C02. Wonder what the ultimate difference is - seems like conversion would be preferable to storage....

39 posted on 07/27/2017 3:30:16 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Right. IF carbon sequestration is the goal, then corn or algae is not much help. Corn, for example, grows rapidly, taking in lots of CO2, but, within a year (roughly), that corn or it’s derivatives are almost all decomposed, digested, burned (ethanol), etc., putting nearly as much CO2 right back into the atmosphere. The total “reduction” of CO2 is negligible. Algae’s cycle is usually faster.

OTOH, trees produce oxygen from CO2 and can store the carbon for a long time. My vote might go to Black Walnut: We have one in our yard that is growing nearly 4’ a year (good soil, plus nutrients & moisture from a nearby septic system). When we had our big ice storm in 2009, it was the only tree of any size in the neighborhood that was not seriously damaged. And, when the time comes for that tree to come down — it is already at almost harvestable size — it will produce wonderful wood for furniture that with care can last for generations. A slight “ding” (only so far as carbon storage is concerned) is the mass of large nuts (and their husks) it produces in the fall. Well, that and not turning an ankle on a nut!

Of course, even long lived trees’ lives are only an eye-blink in time compared to geologic time scales and processes, which are the REAL storers of CO2. Earth would have an atmosphere much like Venus, but luckily most of our CO2 is held in rocks.


40 posted on 07/27/2017 6:08:42 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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