Is a colonial-era drop in CO₂ tied to regrowing forests?

arstechnica.com

cross-posted to:
science

Is a colonial-era drop in CO₂ tied to regrowing forests?

arstechnica.com

@jeffw to

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and [email protected] • 7 months ago

cross-posted to:
science

Carbon dioxide dropped after colonial contact wiped out Native Americans.

You must log in or register to comment.

Chat

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and [email protected]

[email protected]

Create a post

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

781 users / day
1.92K users / week
4.26K users / month
10K users / 6 months
5.46K subscribers
7.35K Posts
31K Comments
Modlog

mods:
@[email protected]