None of that contradicts what I’m saying on any meaningful timescales. You’re literally quoting 1-2 decades. That is short term.
And frankly, it’s obvious. Carbon in any form takes up space. If a forest continually sequestered carbon in solid form (in excess of its wood content, which is easy to measure and plateaus VERY quickly!), every forest that was more than a couple decades old would be sitting on top of a layer of carbon hundreds or thousands of feet deep. It would have to be.
Even the healthiest forests are lucky to have a dozen feet of soil with meaningful carbon content, and most of them it’s a couple feet.
There is nowhere else for that carbon to go except the atmosphere.
And eventually - in hundred, or a few cases a thousand or so years - all those trees die due to climate changes or fires, and they’re gone. Back into the atmosphere.
And frankly, it’s obvious. Carbon in any form takes up space. If a forest continually sequestered carbon in solid form (in excess of its wood content, which is easy to measure and plateaus VERY quickly!), every forest that was more than a couple decades old would be sitting on top of a layer of carbon hundreds or thousands of feet deep. It would have to be.
Even the healthiest forests are lucky to have a dozen feet of soil with meaningful carbon content, and most of them it’s a couple feet.
There is nowhere else for that carbon to go except the atmosphere.
And eventually - in hundred, or a few cases a thousand or so years - all those trees die due to climate changes or fires, and they’re gone. Back into the atmosphere.