Agreed, but shitty, self-serving execution isn't a tree specific issue. It's a shitty capitalist company putting profit above preventing global catastrophe issue. Unless that's prevented, they'll do the same to every sequestration method possible.

You don't need continual replanting - they have seeds, remember?

That's what I was implying with the bit about "trees accomplishing replanting themselves", but I can see how that's not clear.

Overall I super agree. My grad studies (put vaguely so I don't dox my ass) were the microbiological aspect of a project examining carbon cycling in various growth stages of forest. Some people shit on trees as a method of carbon sequestration but a healthy, diverse forest can really pack it in, especially in early to mid seral stages, and retain it long term.

Plus humans have deforested the hell out of so much of the planet, returning some of it to closer to its previous state has far reaching benefits beyond chipping away at climate change.

Keep in mind that decomposition is for the growth and maintenance of the organisms doing the decomposing, meaning some of that carbon is incorporated into the decomposers, not released to the atmosphere. It would take years or even decades for a dead tree to release most of its captured carbon to the atmosphere. It will eventually happen, though, which is why you need a continual cycle of new growth that helps minimizes net losses due to decomposition.

It's not perfect but it's something and done right, which the vast majority of tree carbon credit programs are NOT, is a self perpetuating method of carbon capture.

Trees aren't completely ineffective at carbon capture, they just need to be used properly and with knowledge of their limitations: much of their carbon will be released rapidly in the event of a fire (around 20% of a tree's mass is underground, which is why I don't say all), the carbon they captured will be released over a course of years after they die, and carbon capture rates aren't static and will sharply decline at a certain point. To keep such a project going requires continual replanting, much of which can be accomplished by the trees themselves if the project is done properly.

Most tree based carbon credits are pure scams and were always intended to cheat the system. Done honestly, we could still use trees for carbon credit but you'd need a LOT more trees per unit credit (compared to current scheme rates if they were even honest) and the project would have to estimate likely potential carbon losses and bake those into the valuation.

Fox News? If you don't believe Fox News, then take some quadruple strength Fox News! If that doesn't work, I have entire reams of propaganda to show you!

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Holy hell that's dystopian as fuck.

I only played Altmer or Argonian through all of my TES games. I feel like I should give it a revisit and get my kitty on.

I gave someone some somewhat joking advice to use "dogs" as a gender neutral alternative to "guys". I ended up trying it just for fun and it stuck.

I curl mine up like a butterfly's proboscis.

And all these years, I thought Nick Adams was a parody account. Fucking hell

Edit: after reading his Wikipedia article, I've decided Nick Adams is himself a parody of your average American conservative, whether or not it's intentional.

Now I'm wondering, if your priest plays with your weiner for you, does god consider that instant forgiveness or do you still need to see your priest in confession? Does it count if he hasn't confessed to another priest? What if those priests played with their weiners together? If all the priests are giving each other handies, is there no (dong related) forgiveness for anyone?!

Although god gets upset if you play with your weiner, it becomes okay after you tell your priest about it...but the forgiveness doesn't stick. You have to tell that priest after every time to be forgiven.

/Catholicism