Forests Are Losing Their Ability to Hold Carbon | A new USDA report finds forests could become a major emitter of carbon by 2070

silence7@slrpnk.net · 1 year ago

Forests Are Losing Their Ability to Hold Carbon | A new USDA report finds forests could become a major emitter of carbon by 2070

silence7@slrpnk.net · 1 year ago

Basically, if we stop adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, temperatures stabilize.

The US actually passed climate legislation last year, and it looks like the renewables build-out is going to proceed quickly enough to start displacing fossil fuels over the next few years

Positive reports tend to look like modest incremental improvements, but we’ve been getting a lot of those.

SmokeInFog@midwest.social · 1 year ago

Thanks, I really do appreciate it. I will say that the if in that first link is doing an Atlas’ level of work, though, and it’s the point where my optimism has dropped the lowest