CO2 and trees, the natural CO2 removal system

[We Never Know]

This is a spin off of a reply on another thread.

Trees are a natural source of removing CO2 yet....

"Roughly 15 billion trees are cut down each year, the researchers estimate; since the onset of human civilization, the global number of trees has dropped by roughly 46%."

Global forest survey finds trillions of trees - Nature.

Doesn't a 46% drop in trees mean a 46% drop in their removal of CO2.
So we produce more CO2 but yet keep destroying natural CO2 removal systems in trees then we keep complaining CO2 levels are rising. Pretty stupid isn't it?

Edit...
Trees and oceans are natures two best CO2 removal systems. We keep destroying billions of trees every year, keep polluting the oceans and burning more fossil fuels. Why are we humans this dam stupid?

Trees remove CO2. So do oceans.
-We have reduced global trees by 46%. Less CO2 is removed
-More CO2 means a warmer planet
-A warmer planet means more ice melting causing sea/ocean level rise
-Rising sea/ocean level means it will remove more CO2
-Yet we keep polluting oceans and cutting trees

 

[Subduction Zone]

Only if trees are the only plant life on Earth would it be a 46% drop.

Are there other plants in existence besides trees? And of course there is the reaction of CO2 with various minerals on the ocean floor that naturally removes CO2.

Short answer :

No.

 

[We Never Know]

Only if trees are the only plant life on Earth would it be a 46% drop.

Are there other plants in existence besides trees? And of course there is the reaction of CO2 with various minerals on the ocean floor that naturally removes CO2.

Short answer :

No.

Fields of grass/crop doesn't remove near the CO2 as forest of trees do

Trees remove CO2. So do oceans.
-We have reduced global trees by 46%. Less CO2 is removed
-More CO2 means a warmer planet
-A warmer planet means more ice melting causing sea/ocean level rise
-Rising sea/ocean level means it will remove more CO2

Kind of like a natural solution for the 46% reduction of trees we have caused don't you think?

 

[Audie]

Fields of grass/crop doesn't remove near the CO2 as forest of trees do

Trees remove CO2. So do oceans.
-We have reduced global trees by 46%. Less CO2 is removed
-More CO2 means a warmer planet
-A warmer planet means more ice melting causing sea/ocean level rise
-Rising sea/ocean level means it will remove more CO2

Kind of like a natural solution for the 46% reduction of trees we have caused don't you think?

Pretty simplistic, as if all trees
are the same size with the same
growth rate and life expectancy.

You are plain wrong about frorest
v grassland. There is considerably more
primary production in grassland than forest.

But neither is meaningful for carbon
sequestration without due consideration
for how quickly the carbon dioxide is
cycled. One season v 500 years is
meaningless.

As for the ocean thetes a finite capacity
for dissolved gases, depending a bit on
temperature. The warmer, the less in both
photosynthesis and capaciyy for C02.
For deep long term sequestration in
oceans look to linestone production.

On land you need coal.