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Originally Posted by Knalus
The big thing that was just touched on by the article about absorption of atmospheric carbon, is the question of what plants and ecosystems do the best job of removing CO2 from the atmosphere? Can we encourage increased absorption and/or protect the best absorption areas?
This issue is probably the single biggest possible way that Alberta in particular can help with CO2 emissions. People have, often, mentioned that our contributions to the global CO2 balance sheet are minuscule, and they are technically correct, but the percent of land area that Alberta has is NOT minuscule. Especially when you can take Alberta's learnings and multiply it by the area of Canada. If we want to be serious about Climate Change, then we should be actually serious about it, and learn everything we can.
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Yeah.. but that is all released again with a forest fire or when the tree's decay. So it is not necessarily going increase the amount of carbon absorbed.
I think innovating carbon sinks that can be placed strategically would be better. But that does not solve the Methane issue really.