Do you have some data showing that the amount of carbon stored in Siberian forests has a more significant warming effect than the methane escaping from the warming ground?
More carbon in the ground is also good, and in arctic permafrost can store much more carbon than trees.
Russian and Canadian forests are bigger than tropical forests, but they are much less productive, contain much less life and therefore much less carbon than tropical forests. That's why restoring the native grasslands (which were destroyed by humans) would be an improvement.
pvaldes|5 years ago
More carbon in trees = good. Maybe we could have a chance.
I think that is not so difficult to understand the concept after so many decades talking about it.
Russia has a 23% of the forests in all the planet. Bigger than Amazonas.
chr1|5 years ago
Russian and Canadian forests are bigger than tropical forests, but they are much less productive, contain much less life and therefore much less carbon than tropical forests. That's why restoring the native grasslands (which were destroyed by humans) would be an improvement.