And insects and bugs that will kill the trees as well, as we see with the mountain pine beetle. It's not killed off in the winters because the winters are no longer as cold as they once were.
There is an NRCan document I was able to find that talks about human activities around managed forests and the removal of 20 tonnes of CO2, but then the natural disturbance accounted for emissions of 98 tonnes and therefore an increase of 78 tonnes. Canada has 347 million hectares of forests, almost 900 million acres. Each hectare will absorb six tonnes of CO2, but every year millions of trees die. They admit that.
I think forests have never really been accounted for in the numbers because they both absorb it and then release it at the same time, so it's kind of a wash at the end of the day.
Would you agree with that statement?