Trees control the exchange of CO2 and Oxygen keeping the carbon stored and allowing us to breath.
Trees store the carbon and they recycle the water, keeping our planet cool.
Trees evolved to keep the land cool enough for a huge diversity of life to be created and survive.
Trees are natural air conditioners & it can be 10 degrees cooler under a Tree,
you can feel it instantly.
Global warming has been caused by the excessive emissions of Carbon into the atmosphere through the
burning of fossil fuels and the clearing of the Trees.
Fossil fuels are made up of the carbon of Ancient Forests,
that are dug up for energy and burnt into the atmosphere.
Trees have the ability to sequester (absorb) and store carbon in massive amounts,
but as the forests get thinner, more carbon is emitted into the atmosphere
and there are less Trees to sequester it back into safe storage.
Trees store the carbon and they recycle the water, keeping our planet cool.
Trees evolved to keep the land cool enough for a huge diversity of life to be created and survive.
Trees are natural air conditioners & it can be 10 degrees cooler under a Tree,
you can feel it instantly.
Global warming has been caused by the excessive emissions of Carbon into the atmosphere through the
burning of fossil fuels and the clearing of the Trees.
Fossil fuels are made up of the carbon of Ancient Forests,
that are dug up for energy and burnt into the atmosphere.
Trees have the ability to sequester (absorb) and store carbon in massive amounts,
but as the forests get thinner, more carbon is emitted into the atmosphere
and there are less Trees to sequester it back into safe storage.
Planting billions of trees across the world is one of the biggest and cheapest ways of taking CO2 out of the atmosphere to tackle the climate crisis. "This new quantitative evaluation shows Forest restoration isn’t just one of our climate change solutions, it is overwhelmingly the top one,” said Prof Tom Crowther at the Swiss university ETH Zürich, who led the research. “What blows my mind is the scale. I thought restoration would be in the top 10, but it is overwhelmingly more powerful than all of the other climate change solutions proposed.” Forest restoration
"The planet has already warmed by 1.1C since pre-industrial times and, based on current commitments by countries under the Paris agreement, is on track for an average 3C temperature rise." Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a biologist and climate scientist at the University of Queensland, said. "Heatwaves in states such as Queensland could occur seven times a year and last for 16 days at a time, and unprecedented fire seasons such as the 2019-20 fire disaster become a regular occurrence."
Land clearing has exploded Australian is facing an escalating environmental disaster. In eastern Australia the destruction of trees and plants on farms, known as land clearing, has exploded. Our native vegetation is a key part of how we can stop the climate crisis, so why are we cutting down so many trees?" Anne Davis The Guardian. She claims that the tree clearing happening in NSW & Qld over the past few years is the equivalent of 46million ton of CO2 of emissions or 3 large coal fire power stations. Australia is a Deforestation and Extinction hot spot according to WWF. Anne Davis 2019
"Photosynthetic carbon capture by trees is likely to be among our most effective strategies to limit the rise of CO2 concentrations across the globe (1–3). Consequently, a number of international initiatives [such as the Bonn Challenge, the related AFR100, and the New York Declaration on Forests (4, 5)] have established ambitious targets to promote forest conservation, afforestation, and restoration at a global scale. The latest special report (1) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggests that an increase of 1 billion ha of forest will be necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C by 2050. However, it remains unclear whether these restoration goals are achievable because we do not know how much tree cover might be possible under current or future climate conditions or where these trees could exist."
- “The global tree restoration potential” by J.-F. Bastin, Y. Finegold, C. Garcia, D. Mollicone, M. Rezende, D. Routh, C. M. Zohner, T. W. Crowther 05 Jul 2019: Vol. 365, Issue 6448, pp. 76-79
- “The global tree restoration potential” by J.-F. Bastin, Y. Finegold, C. Garcia, D. Mollicone, M. Rezende, D. Routh, C. M. Zohner, T. W. Crowther 05 Jul 2019: Vol. 365, Issue 6448, pp. 76-79