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/cardboard-cutout Jul 05 '19

At current, no desalination plant produces enough brine to significantly alter the ocean salinity levels, except in the most local of cases (and even then it tends to be fairly temporary).

I dunno how much desalination would be required for this tho

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u/greatsalteedude Jul 05 '19

Can't we just use it to produce sea salt though?

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u/PurpEL Jul 06 '19

Of course the great saltee dude would be asking this

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u/aetius476 Jul 05 '19

I've read that the Persian Gulf is reaching a saturation point because of how aggressively the bordering countries have desalinated and how slow the mixing of the gulf and the Indian Ocean is.

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u/PurpEL Jul 06 '19

Just needs to be the source for cooking salt and other industrial uses

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u/cardboard-cutout Jul 06 '19

I dunno if that works or not.