Makes little sense because trees die and decay, releasing their stored carbon. We released the carbon from liquid fuels and thats how we should reset, back to liquid carbon that wont go anywhere.
Isn't that how ecosystem should work? Tree dies, new one grows on the spot. X amount of carbon should be locked in a Forrest ecosystem as long as it lives; trees, other vegetation and organisms. Some of it will eventually fossilize for good.
Apparently dead forests release less carbon into the atmosphere than expected:
"Overall, we discovered that after a tree die-off, the loss of carbon in the soil results less from increased respiration by microbes but more from the fact that trees are no longer sequestering photosynthesized carbon into the soil," Moore said. "There seems to be a dampening of the carbon cycle rather than a big pulse of carbon release. So even if the forest now goes from a sink to a source of carbon dioxide, it's not as dramatic of an effect as we thought it would be."
Trees replace themselves, so the decomposition is balanced by new growth. So even if decomposition releases all of a tree's carbon, adding a trillion trees would take a large amount of carbon out of the atmosphere.
