[Rebelgecko]

Doesn't burning the forest down release a good portion of that CO2?

[DenisM]

My point is that a standing forest doesn’t affect carbon levels. A growing forest or a burning forest does.

So a statement like “forests are scrubbing CO2 and help us against climate change” are false - a stationary size forest has no effect whatsoever.

For carbon to be sequestered it has to go into the ground and stay there.