[CedarDave]

"forests act as huge carbon sinks that absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow"

...and give it all back to the atmosphere when the trees die, rot, or become food to termites.

Or when hundreds of square miles of forest are burned as a result of environutter policies preventing logging or forest thinning leading to immense buildups of dead, decaying brush on the forest floor just waiting for a spark to ignite.

[expatpat]

yup, that too.