As long as I have a fire I guess

[WiltonRanch]

Tree roots will decay much the same as you or I, if we are planted a few feet under ground not much of us or the tree roots will gas off to the surface, hence the carbon sink or the fancy word carbon sequestration!

Though perhaps some, politicians and activist types would gas off faster cause they primarily full of crap and hot air.

[chuckChuck]

The carbon cycle operates in equilibrium with relatively slow changes over time unless there is a super volcano or maybe an asteroid. So the carbon cycle absorbs and releases carbon so sinks like Canada's forests, soils and wetlands absorb and release carbon in a continuous cycle.

In the last 200 years humans have altered the landscapes with deforestation, drained wetlands, adopted intensive agriculture and dumped trillions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere from fossil fuels. If sinks were absorbing all the fossil sources of carbon on a global scale, then CO2 levels in the global atmosphere would not be rising. And Canada's sinks are not likely capturing significantly more carbon than they are releasing in the carbon cycle.

Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/carbon-dioxide-now-more-than-50-higher-than-pre-industrial-levels

"Prior to the Industrial Revolution, CO2 levels were consistently around 280 ppm for almost 6,000 years of human civilization. Since then, humans have generated an estimated 1.5 trillion tons of CO2 pollution, much of which will continue to warm the atmosphere for thousands of years.

CO2 levels are now comparable to the Pliocene Climatic Optimum, between 4.1 and 4.5 million years ago, when they were close to, or above 400 ppm. During that time, sea levels were between 5 and 25 meters higher than today, high enough to drown many of the world’s largest modern cities. Temperatures then averaged 7 degrees Fahrenheit higher than in pre-industrial times, and studies indicate that large forests occupied today’s Arctic tundra."

[chuckChuck]

[AlbertaFarmer5]

CO2 levels are now comparable to the Pliocene Climatic Optimum,

Have you ever wondered why scientists label the historical warm periods, which also coincide with high CO2 levels, as climate optimums?

Yet today we call it climate armageddon?

Do you know what optimum means?

[shtferbrains]

Go green or die!

That describes what a significant portion of the population now believe.

Our Prime Minister may fit the profile?

[sumdumguy]

I’d like to see the city guys burn wood, straw, cow dung, whatever just to keep warm —- but they’ll feel good about their climate - or will they?

[Guest]

Have you ever wondered why scientists label the historical warm periods, which also coincide with high CO2 levels, as climate optimums?

Yet today we call it climate armageddon?

Do you know what optimum means?

It’s hilarious how shit he posts flies right over his head??

[AlbertaFarmer5]

It’s hilarious how shit he posts flies right over his head??

Chuck and his accolytes manage to contradict themselves in almost every thread, often even in the same post such as this one.
Yet no matter how often he makes a fool of himself, always bounces right back with just as much grossly misplaced confidence and enthusiasm to do it all over again.
Whereas anyone else who possesses any shred of self dignity would shrink back under the rock they crawled out of, after being exposed as a completely uninformed hypocrite at every opportunity.
But not our chuckchuck, he's always eager come back and keep digging the hole deeper.

[TSIPP]

I’d like to see the city guys burn wood, straw, cow dung, whatever just to keep warm —- but they’ll feel good about their climate - or will they?

It was getting chilly in the house at diner time so I fired up the wood stove, this afternoon I’ll cut up some more deadfall with the new Husqvarna.

[WiltonRanch]

Chuck and his accolytes manage to contradict themselves in almost every thread, often even in the same post such as this one.
Yet no matter how often he makes a fool of himself, always bounces right back with just as much grossly misplaced confidence and enthusiasm to do it all over again.
Whereas anyone else who possesses any shred of self dignity would shrink back under the rock they crawled out of, after being exposed as a completely uninformed hypocrite at every opportunity.
But not our chuckchuck, he's always eager come back and keep digging the hole deeper.

Perhaps he’s right about the facts and figures he professes but there is no modicum to it but always to the extreme and a confrontational bent to it always. Even if we may push him the others who think like him here for most part have enough sense to be a bit civil and take a breath. There’s times when we agree but when the well is poisoned by this behaviour there is no true conversation but a confrontation.