These plants are the primary architects of “blue carbon” sinks, coastal ecosystems that can sequester carbon at rates up to three times higher than terrestrial forests.
I don’t think plants of any type should be called carbon sinks. It gives people the false idea that trees are some kind of solution to carbon released by burning fossil fuels. That carbon is just going to go back into the atmosphere when the tree dies and decays.
If it’s not shoving the carbon back underground for hundreds of thousands of years, it’s, at best, a carbon bucket on a wobbly table.
You are right that a big amount gets released back when a tree dies, but it also feeds microorganisms which live in the soil and which enrich the soil itself, increasing the carbon content of the soil. Also, especially in wetlands and coastal areas plant material can sink underwater and get preserved on the sea floor, leading to sequestration, and explaining the higher sequestration rate compared to terrestrial forests.
The only real carbon sink is ocean algae that sinks to the bottom of the ocean when it dies.
Trump will realize that climate change is real, but it won’t be something small like this. It will be something big like a huge heat wave. Scientists already believe there will be a super El Nino this year that will that produce drastic weather.
Why the fuck is everything “Trump” or a USA related? It’s not even talked about in the article.
China has 4x as many coal plants as the US and opened 50+ last year alone. The last one the US opened was in 2018. I didn’t vote for Trump, I don’t like Trump at all, but everything isn’t Trump or the US fault. Believe me, there’s enough bad shit the US is doing currently on its own.
The article is about climate change. Trump doesn’t believe in climate change. The US isn’t the only contributor to climate change but Trump should participate in attempting to stop it.
He’ll be dead by the time it’s bad enough to affect him personally.
Let’s see if scientists are correct about a super El Nino this year. The resulting weather events might be something which has never occurred.
Even if it does, he’s sufficiently insulated, literally and figuratively, that it won’t personally affect him. The White House kitchen won’t be running out of food, nor the air conditioning fail in his buildings or jets.
Climate change affects the economy. Agriculture is especially affected but fires, floods, and tornados are very destructive.
