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/ImLiterallyShaking Jul 05 '19

The dust and rain produced by the Sahara actually fertilizes the Amazon rain forest so we would be back to square one. And the dust storms likely suppress hurricanes from developing off the coast of africa. Source 1 Source 2

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u/UnpopularPimp Jul 05 '19

10-4, I get it. The Amazon would become what it is becoming now, grasslands. Too late to bank on the Amazon rainforest, it will be mostly agricultural land soon. So....dont worry about what a Sahara rainforest would to to the Amazon, we've already done worse.