Forest Carbon's Back-End Durability Problem
Ice ages are hugely influential. As the centuries get increasingly colder, trees must retreat to more southerly climes. If the shift takes place slowly over many generations, trees in Central Europe, for example, successfully relocate to the Mediterranean region.
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
For most air pollutants, once the emissions stop, the pollutant will disappear and the impacts will go away. However, this is not the case for CO2, which stays in the atmosphere for centuries.
Howard Herzog • Carbon Capture
According to the IPCC, just stabilizing human influences on the climate would require global annual per capita emissions of CO2 to fall to less than one ton by 2075, a level comparable to today’s emissions from such countries as Haiti, Yemen, and Malawi. For comparison, 2015 annual per capita emissions from the United States, Europe, and China
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