Sir lastnail wrote on May 21
st, 2019 at 10:01pm:
where do you get this sh.t from ?
The Chief Scientist of Australia do you?
"Australia has 149 million hectares of forest. Of this, 147 million hectares is native forest, dominated by eucalypt (79%) and acacia (7%), and 1.82 million hectares is in plantations[i]. Grassland covers around 440 million hectares of land in Australia"
"The amount of carbon taken up every year by dry forests in Australia depends on the weather conditions and age of the trees. Science tells us that the range for forests with continuous canopies is about 0.5-2 tonnes of carbon per year for each hectare. "
"In other words, over the long haul, more carbon stays in the tree sink than in the grass sink.
Some Australian native eucalyptus forests store up to ten times more carbon per hectare than Australian native and introduced grasslands – both above and below ground."
"Using data from a study of semi-arid Australian grasslands by the Queensland Department of Primary Industry[iv] that accounted for the amount of live grass above ground found that about 5 tonnes of carbon could be stored per hectare of perennial grass year, assuming little grazing. This compares to carbon stocks of mature dry sclerophyll forest that contain about 100 tonnes of carbon per hectare (with wide variability)."
https://www.chiefscientist.gov.au/2009/12/which-plants-store-more-carbon-in-aust...So we have 589 million hectares of trees and grasses. If we assume a conservative 1.0 tonne per hectare we have sequestered more than Australia's 556.4M tons CO2e (2017 figures).
Or perhaps you would like satellite confirmation? From the Japanese IBUKI satellite -
Enjoy.