Re: Bush, Hurricanes and Global Warming

Offbreed wrote:
> Terry Collins wrote:
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>> Naah, that carbon credit *** is a crock of lies. The problem with trees
>> as a carbon sink is that once they die, they start releasing all that
>> carbon they have sequestered.
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> Usually, the dirt in the forest just keeps getting deeper from the
> leaves and needles. Sure they rot, but the carbon chemicals mostly just
> change form from leaf to worm *** and bug ***. Lots of carbon in
> forest soil, that's why it's usually black. <G> Turning carbon in the
> trees into paper and houses makes a lot more sense than trying to leave
> it all "naaaaatchraaaaaal", though.


In a short time frame, yess a tree is a sink for CO2, but over its life
& decay time, it isn't. The bugs that feed on the dying tree are actualy
a nett source of CO2, so they put the carbon back into circulation.

Isn't the biggest living thing a fungi mass in the SE USA?

If you want to consider the soil, then you need to look at what the tree
took out of the soil in the first place, plus the leaves that carry the
carbon to the soil are usually munched by stuff that puts out CO2.


"Sequester Carbon! Build Another
> House!" Think it would fly?
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> I agree that forests don't take much CO2 out of the air, per acre, but
> we have a lot of acres of forest.

Maybe. what is your land clearing rate? In Oz, our forests tend to be
where peeps want to plonk their arseholes or scream they need to clear
to make better farms to create more produce to dump on the ground.

We have a major salinity problem in this country from rising water
tables, but still they are clearing massive amounts of trees for the
short term $$$$.

And for the carbon credit forests here, they went and cleared good bush.!

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> Back a long time ago, while cutting trees for a living, I considered
> building a brush hut to live under on the job site, using leafy branches
> from the trees I was cutting. Know something? There wasn't enough to
> make it worth while.

Yep, most of the bush huts here were made from the bark stripped of the
tree trunk. Brush shelters were only good for wind breaks.
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> A tree might look like it has a lot of leaves on it, but I suspect
> there's more green per acre in a pasture than a wood lot

The pasture is only at one level. A forest can be at many levels from
ground cover to the emergents over the canopy.
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