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Using remote-sensing data on forest cover change in the European Union (EU), Ceccherini et al. 1 report an abrupt increase in harvested biomass (69%) and in harvested forest area (43%) on the basis of a comparison between two periods, 2010–2015 and 2016–2018, in a single decade. They demonstrate a spike in harvests in 2016–2018, and use the short-term rise to infer a long-term trend of increasing harvests, causing them to question the viability of European forests remaining a terrestrial carbon sink in the future. They then suggest that the recent expansion of wood markets around the globe may portend sustained growth in the area harvested for forest products in the EU, and that this might adversely affect goals to mitigate climate change in the coming decades. We feel that this argument is misinformed and, together with their analysis, leads Ceccherini et al. 1 to several errors in their conclusions …