#carbonsink — Public Fediverse posts

Really proud of this paper coming out today in science, of which the last author is one of my colleagues. He had started thinking about this 15 years ago : one could suppose that the warming climate could lengthen the growing season for trees, and therefore increase their carbon uptake. The colleagues were however able to show that the warming climate has a negative impact on the growth rate of trees, which largely offsets the benefit of longer growing season on future forest carbon storage.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8866
#Forests #ForestCarbonStorage #CarbonSink #ClimateChange #AcademicChatter #Science

RE: https://scicomm.xyz/@mustapipa/117137230074004940

If economics can be said to speak, it needs to shout LOUDLY about proper green regeneration (rather than plant-a-tree make-work): “Scientists found that natural #forest regeneration delivered substantial carbon and #biodiversity benefits and could be up to 96% cheaper than traditional tree-planting programs.” 🌳🪾🌲🌴🎄

Fabulous news - thanks so much for sharing! 😀🙏🏻

#regeneration #forestRegeneration #costBenefit #carbonSink #RoI

"Land management categories should be disaggregated in emissions reporting and targets".
"Targets should acknowledge the need for Geological Net Zero, meaning one tonne of CO₂ permanenty restored to the solid Earth from every tonne still generated from fossil sources."
"By adding to cumulative emissions, any entity, country or corporation adds to the total passive carbon sink that needs protection for the foreseeable future."

Allen et al. (2024). https://rdcu.be/d9Rnm

#accounting #accountability #accountancy #fossilFuels #climateChange #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #footprint #targets

"Earth’s forests reached a tipping point. They had grown dense, lush canopies at the start of one of Earth’s most intense episodes of greenhouse warming. But those canopies began to thin."
"The structure of a forest – and importantly its canopy – controls the amount of light that reaches the forest floor, the temperature, water habitat and amount of carbon the forest can store, making it one of the clearest indicators of ecosystem function."
"Forest canopies opened, exposing the ground to more sunlight and altering the movement of water through the landscape."
"As temperatures climbed, heat and drought overwhelmed the benefits of higher carbon dioxide levels. The canopy rapidly thinned as trees died, and it remained much thinner for over 100,000 years."
"Ancient soils gave way to coarser river deposits".

Regan E. Dunn writes: https://theconversation.com/ancient-forests-took-100-000-years-to-recover-from-the-last-global-warming-period-similar-to-today-wyoming-fossils-reveal-what-happened-289462

#forests #ecology #climateChange #degradation #droughts #deforestation #forest #carbon #carbonSinks #carbonSink #footprint #soil

My #PhotoArt tribute to #BigLonelyDoug - one of the biggest #DouglasFir #trees in the world.

Learn more about this lonely #OldGrowth tree:
"It has the third highest tree score and third widest diameter of any known Douglas-fir in Canada, following the Red Creek Fir in the nearby San Juan Valley and the Bonin Giant in the Coquitlam River watershed in British Columbia's Lower Mainland"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lonely_Doug

#SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #BCForestryReform #ProtectForests #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #PortRenfrew #Pacheedaht #Dididaht #TreeLovers #fir #EarthNeedsGuardians #nature #CarbonSink #Climate #BanCorporateLobbyists #StopCorporateWelfare #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCNewDeathParty #CapitalismKillsEverything #Environmentalist #PhotoEdit #VisualArt #ThickTrunkTuesday

56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly
#Science #Environment #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Plants #EarthHistory #CarbonCycle #GlobalWarming #SoilCarbon #CarbonSink #CarbonSequestration #The14
https://the-14.com/56-million-years-ago-the-earth-suddenly-heated-up-and-many-plants-stopped-working-properly/

My friend, Jane, from Lake Cowichan, was the first senior citizen activist who was arrested in 2021, at Fairy Creek Blockades. She messaged before heading out to meet up with me at HQ camp. She told me she's never been arrested for protesting anything before but due to seeing too much ecocide still happening in her golden years - declared, 'Getting arrested for protecting Mother Nature is now on my bucket list"🌲💦 💗🦅🌲🦉🌲 Jane stayed at HQ camp for 2 nights & on her 3rd day, headed out to chain herself/walker to a tripod hardblock. Jane was arrested, along with 12 others that day, after several hours. Jane is a wonderful human being, a musician, a fibers artist, a Mother & Grandmother, who loves nature very much.

#RadicalSeniors #AwesomeElders #ClimateAction #Activists #AsianMastodon #AncientForestDefenders #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #blockade #FairyCreekBlockade #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #OneEarth #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform #environmentalists #ecological #ClimateChange #CarbonSink #BCOldGrowth #ProtectTrees #SilentSunday #Cascadia #RadicalSeniorCitizens #DirectAction #Resistance

It should be criminal to kill trees that are older than man-made cathedrals. The man-made cathedrals still get more protection status than ancient trees that are older than mankind. That is so very foolhardy & myopic of man.

#OldGrowthCedar #AncientCedar #ElderTree #YellowCedar #ClimateAction #Activists #AsianMastodon #ForestDefender #BritishColumbia #StopDeforestation #StopEcocide #SaveOldGrowth #WorthMoreStanding #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #OneEarth #TreesOverGreed #PNW #StandEarth #EcoJustice #AbolishRCMPCIRG #BCpoli #BCNDP #BCForestryReform #Landback #environmentalist #ecological #ClimateChange #CarbonSink #BCOldGrowth #Trees #SilentSunday

Just finished skim reading this study on urban lawns and grasslands soil carbon sequestration. It is an important meta-analysis contributing to addressing urban climate emissions.

"High soil carbon sequestration rates persist several decades in turfgrass systems: A meta-analysis." (OpenAccess)

I did a fair amount of reading on Soil Organic Carbon from turf grasses when I researched my literature review on Synthetic Turf in 2021, and this article pulls a lot of information from numerous studies together..

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722070747?via%3Dihub

#SoilCarbon #CarbonSink #CarbonSequestration #Lawns #Turfgrass #Emissions #ClimateSolutions #ClimateCrisis