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iamroot@discuss.tchncs.de to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 1 year ago

Extensive afforestation and reforestation can brake global warming

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Extensive afforestation and reforestation can brake global warming

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iamroot@discuss.tchncs.de to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 1 year ago
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The Paris Agreement calls on us to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. To reach this goal, we need to reduce CO₂ emissions and remove existing CO₂ from the atmosphere.
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  • jgkawell@lemmy.world
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    It’s good to plant trees, but beware of folks using it as cover to avoid more important work like actually reducing fossil fuel usage: https://art19.com/shows/the-climate-deniers-playbook/episodes/5322de3f-ffc0-4258-a890-c648f59bc195

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      Climate change requires every solution and then a couple more. There is no “less impactful than” with climate change mitigation/reversal. We need all of it and then some.

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        The problem is not with people focusing in reforestation. It’s with corporations using the funding of reforestation to greenwash or “balance” their more harmful practices. The point is that they need to stop doing harm. After that, how they choose to do good is a secondary issue.

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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: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world.  About 1C of total warming.  Second chart:  about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability.  Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases.  About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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