New article in @nature: '#EcosystemRestoration can help mitigate #ClimateChange at low costs' 'Conserving ecosystems & restoring 30% of converted land could mitigate 71±4% of extinction debt & sequester 465±59 gigatonnes CO2—49% of CO2 since Indus. Rev.' nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Oct 14, 2020 · 4:11 PM UTC

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I hope you have a certain number of peer reviews about what you tell and show. Otherwise, there could be no scientific foundation for it.
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....and approximately double our remaining carbon budget to a 1.5C pathway (depending on calculation method, but the order of magnitude is right)
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Any evidence you personally know of that supports pseudoscience of #ClimateChange? I think not. That is how pseudo science spreads Phrenology. Cold hard butter in the morning melts by lunch time due to glow ball warming of 1 degree per hour. hellosemi.com/hypercube/pmwi…
Am I wrong, or is the entire boreal forest missing (in a global study dealing with climate change mitigation)?
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This is a highly problematic perspective-shows such unawareness on environmental racism, new studies on non-forest/savannas. They should have themselves seen their results as alarmingly wrong when almost all of Mississippi basin/great plains showed as low priority for restoration
RT @robinjroth Restoration beyond tree planting is a critical nature based climate solution! BUT it should be done with Indigenous knowledge holders - returning biocultural diversity and capturing carbon! 👍🏿 🌿@fionaharvey @IndgLed_Conserv @UNBiodiversity @ICCAConsortium
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Those 30% need to be interpreted in the proper context. Carbon sinks have positive and negative cycles. During the negative cycles sinks actually release CO2. So, overall contribution drops from ~30% to ~15%. Nevertheless, this is good news.
So, this new paper in Nature has a rather misleading statement in the abstract. It says ecosystem restoration could "sequester 299 gigatonnes of CO2—30% of the total CO2 increase in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution". 1/3
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