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Re:How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth ... by dorgo on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:35PM (#21085810)
Is the tree thing viable? Can we plant enough trees and keep them long enough from burning or rotting?
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Re:How climate change is melting, drying and flooding Earth ... by SolarNet on Thursday September 26, 2019 @06:54PM (#21086492)
As long as it doesn't get too hot from emissions first. If we get up to +3C or +4C we are talking about loosing habitability in large parts of the world for trees (and probably humans).

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/07/how-t...

It's just land the size of the United States to erase our last 100 years of emissions. Trees have the side benefit of being neutral or useful in many contexts. There is plenty of room.

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