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Forests don’t just absorb CO2 — they also take up methane
(www.nature.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Huh...
It's almost as if forests have evolved to be part of a complex system...
Almost as if there was an entire era in the history of the Earth that was dominated by plant growth and evolution, potentially even directly in response to the existence of an atmosphere notably rich in carbon compounds...