Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment

Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by JoeAltmaier on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:46AM (#20715646)

With you until the last point. When newly planted forests mature, a lost tree is not generally replaced. Trees around the 'gap' grow into the gap and take the sunlight, getting larger in the process.

In this way a stand of small trees becomes a much-less-dense stand of very large mature trees.

Don't know how it affects the analysis - is a mature forest more carbon-dense than a newly-planted one?

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Re:Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment by phaemon on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:14AM (#20715968)

Yeah, I did oversimplify that. I guess I was really saying, that if your trees live for 100 years, say, it's not like the whole forest disappears once the 100 years are up.

And, of course, if it's used for forestry, the trees will be continually removed and new ones planted.

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