minus-squareholyshitflapjacks@lemm.eetoAsk Science@lemmy.world•[Solved] Trees supposedly take 30 years *before* they absorb CO₂. Why?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·1 year agoThe mass of a tree is composed of carbon fixed from CO2, so it doesn’t make any physical sense for a tree to grow at all without absorbing CO2. This is nonsense, trees begin fixing CO2 the moment they start growing. linkfedilink
The mass of a tree is composed of carbon fixed from CO2, so it doesn’t make any physical sense for a tree to grow at all without absorbing CO2. This is nonsense, trees begin fixing CO2 the moment they start growing.