{"id":3604,"date":"2021-11-08T12:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T01:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3604"},"modified":"2021-11-08T12:25:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T01:25:15","slug":"more-trees-less-grass-no-food-viv-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=3604","title":{"rendered":"More Trees, Less Grass, No Food. Viv Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelsmithnews.com\/2021\/11\/from-the-magnificent-viv-forbes-more-trees-less-grass-no-food.html\">https:\/\/www.michaelsmithnews.com\/2021\/11\/from-the-magnificent-viv-forbes-more-trees-less-grass-no-food.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trying to bury carbon dioxide deep underground is another fashionable green fantasy. It consumes big dollars for taxpayer subsidies but coal and gas producers will love it as it wastes energy and will increase demand for reliable energy. Artificial carbon capture is an unnecessary waste &#8211; the grasslands, forests, crops and continental shelf of Australia sequester far more carbon dioxide than Australia emits from all energy, transport, agriculture and mining sources.<\/p>\n<p>Australia has 440 million hectares of grasslands \u2013 that 4.4 M sq km is larger than Europe\u2019s total area of 3.5 M sq km. We also have 147 million hectares of native forests, 1.8 million hectares of plantations and 4% of the world\u2019s global forest estate. Australia has the world\u2019s sixth largest forest area and the fourth-largest area of forest in nature conservation reserves. We are not short of trees.<\/p>\n<p>Australian forests absorb 940 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually, over double our domestic and industrial emissions of 417 million tonnes <em>per annum<\/em>. Add to that the absorption of CO2 into our massive area of grasslands, crops, soils and continental shelf waters and Australia does more than its fair share of CO2 sequestration (which means our grasslands and forests are starving for more CO2).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.michaelsmithnews.com\/2021\/11\/from-the-magnificent-viv-forbes-more-trees-less-grass-no-food.html Trying to bury carbon dioxide deep underground is another fashionable green fantasy. It consumes big dollars for taxpayer subsidies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[513,1699,258,1697,1698],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3605,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3604\/revisions\/3605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}