[suoduandao2]

I don’t understand. There’s no net increase or decrease of atmospheric carbon in the scenario you describe

[tyre]

The effects of climate change are not instantly reversible. Imagine shifting weather patterns dry up a wetlands. Removing carbon from the atmosphere does not recreate that biome

[yakubin]

CO2 doesn’t disappear from the atmosphere the moment you plant trees. In fact, burning wood is worse than burning coal here, because, for the same amount of energy provided, burning wood is going to emit more CO2 than burning coal.

[ponector]

Is it? Energy output is directly related to carbon content. More energy density from coal mean more co2.

But coal is much much worse due to toxic pm2.5

[olddustytrail]

Not from a carbon perspective. Forestry isn't cutting down ancient forests and then randomly thinking it would be nice to plant some new ones. Trees are a crop. They are planted, left to grow, and then harvested, in a cycle.