Crucially, the idea that net zero would halt global warming relies on the fact that natural carbon sinks continue to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
This removal of this CO2 is classed as a natural process & is therefore not [counted as human activity]
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03504-6
This removal of this CO2 is classed as a natural process & is therefore not [counted as human activity]
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03504-6
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If anything those natural sinks are getting double (or more) counted. Those tree plantations that burned had already been counted. Meanwhile those natural sinks are getting annihilated by global boiling *and* direct human action.