In this week's comments update, our story quoting experts who say planting trees "doesn't make any sense" in the fight against climate change has triggered a furious reaction from readers.
"Absolute garbage," said Rory in the story's comments section. "Trees have a massive potential for capturing carbon."
"What claptrap," added David Graybeal. "Someone with a financial interest in an alternative disparages one perfectly good approach."
"Let's plant them anyway" 
Many of the specialists quoted in our story claim afforestation is not a reliable enough method of long-term carbon sequestration since the trees need to be left growing for decades.
Several readers said that shouldn't stop tree-planting schemes. "Let's plant them anyway," said Kevin McGrath. "There are a million other benefits, not least being that they look fantastic!" Line agreed: "Reforestation creates ecosystems that are cooling down big areas, allowing water to be better absorbed by the soil, helping biodiversity and habitat for endangered species. As valid as the concern of speed of carbon-capturing is, nature will benefit from reforestation if done in a considered and sustainable way."
Michael Wigle sympathised with claims in the article that carbon offsetting schemes can be dubious. "Saying you are offsetting carbon by planting a tree is nonsense," he said, but added: "That doesn't mean we shouldn't in...