RealClimate: Can planting trees save our climate?

„n recent weeks, a new study by researchers at ETH Zurich has hit the headlines worldwide (Bastin et al. 2019). […] Unfortunately, it’s also too good to be true. Because apples are compared to oranges and important feedbacks in the Earth system are forgotten. With a few basic facts about the CO₂ increase in our atmosphere this is easy to understand. Mankind is currently blowing 11 billion tonnes of carbon (gigatonnes C, abbreviated GtC) into the air every year in the form of CO₂ – and the trend is rising.“

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