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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (1152842)7/28/2019 10:01:14 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 1570842
 
" 50 years from now carbon production will be substantially reduced "
50 years from now, temperatures will be warmer. I'm not arguing against trees; I've planted plenty mice elf.They aren't the solution; the solution is to quit using fossil carbon.

" Trees suck carbon out of the air for 20-50 years at a time."
And then? They either burn, or get turned into products that burn, and that carbon goes right back in the air, instead of being buried in the ground. Are you envisioning a 10,000 year old Mt. Everest of logs?



Arctic wildfires continue to burn, releasing record amounts of CO2



NASA satellites have documented numerous wildfires burning in Alaska and Canada's Yukon Territory. Photo by Aqua and Terra MODIS data through NASA Worldview, processed by Pierre Markuse/ Flickr
2 days ago

According to Mark Parrington, senior scientists with Europe's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, the Arctic's fires have released approximately 100 megatons, 100 million metric tons, of CO2 since June -- a total Parrington said on Twitter "is getting close to 2017 fossil fuel CO2 emissions of Belgium."

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The Arctic's on fire and now it's going to be hit by a heat wave ...

thinkprogress.org

1 day ago - The Arctic's on fire and now it's going to be hit by a heat wave. Things aren't looking ... Someof the fires also appear to be burning in peat soils — as opposed to forests — which burn for longer and can release significant amounts of carbon, speeding up global warming in the process. In a memo released ...
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