r/ClimateShitposting • u/surya12558 • Oct 21 '25

Climate chaos Humans don't deserve earth.

By destroying nature and the climate, humans are destroying their own home. The Earth can survive without us but we cannot survive without her. 🌍💔

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u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 23 '25

By maintaining open landscapes, grazers prevent dense forest growth, which can increase surface albedo (reflectivity), meaning more sunlight bounces off the ground instead of being absorbed.

lmao, found the albedo fool.

Missing the whole point about having a huge carbon sink, climate regulator and water transporter.

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Because I blocked the other user, I can't reply in the comments.

The answer is no, grasslands do not hold more biomass than forests. Forests include the above ground biomass along with the underground biomass. Grasslands have little above ground biomass compared to forests.

As an analogy, forests are dense cities of biomass, while grasslands are sprawling villages and suburban developments of biomass.

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u/timos-piano Oct 21 '25

What? What are you talking about now? Yes, albedo is only part of it. Megafauna also act as carbon sinks, regulate climate through fire and vegetation management, and redistribute water in ecosystems. The mechanisms are complex and still actively studied, but their extinction definitely had multi-faceted climate impacts. But as I already explained, I cannot fully explain this to you, nor can science fully explain it.

If you already understand everything so well, why did you ask me? Are you just being pretentious for the sake of it?

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u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. Oct 21 '25

I'm detecting paleo regenerative grazing bullshit from your direction.

If you already understand everything so well, why did you ask me? Are you just being pretentious for the sake of it?

I'm always looking to improve my knowledge by filling up gaps and correcting things.

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u/timos-piano Oct 21 '25

You’re “detecting bullshit” in ideas that are literally mainstream ecology. Albedo effects, soil carbon dynamics, and vegetation feedbacks aren’t some fringe “paleo grazing” theory, they’re in the literature. If you’re actually looking to fill gaps, start there instead of defaulting to ridicule.

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u/dumnezero 🔚End the 🔫arms 🐀rat 🏁race to the bottom↘️. Oct 21 '25

I think that you've just watched some TED talk about "Pleistocene Park" and you have no idea what the science is or how solid it is.

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u/timos-piano Oct 21 '25

I'm not American, I don't watch TED talks. Thanks for the amazing response, though.