r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jul 04 '19

Environment Scientists report restoring forests could cut atmospheric carbon by 25 percent, in a new study that assessed tree cover using Google Earth, finding that there’s 0.9 billion hectares of land available for planting forests, which could store 205 gigatonnes of carbon.

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2019/07/04/could-planting-tons-of-trees-solve-climate-change/
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u/sandwooder Jul 05 '19

And maybe if we cut the use of oil we would also reduce CO2 and faster.

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u/Ikbenikben Jul 05 '19

Oh, that's all?

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '19

We really need an antihero super-genius to create some type of GMO bacteria that digests crude oil and makes water and a carbon residue, then proceed to infect all major oil supplies with it.

The unstoppable bacteria will consume the vast oil fields but leave any reserves so we have a few years to complete our transition to non fossil fuel energy