WELCOME TO SWEET AUGUST 2011 ...VOLUME 1

STOP GLOBAL WARMING ?

PLANTING  A TREE WOULD BE THE OBVIOUS CHOICE..!

“ The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.

The next best time is now”

-Chinese proverb

If you were to pick one simple thing to do to help stop global warming, planting a tree would be the obvious choice.


Or would it?


True, a single tree can absorb more than one ton of Co2 over its lifetime. This is a great thing .Yet a few qualifying points demand attention. It’s not the Ronald Reagan was right when he said , “Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do.” (Um no.) It’s that when trees decay, they release Co2 back into the atmosphere (though some remains in the soil). So once a tree has been planted, someone needs to watch over it , and when the time comes, salvage it for lumber or dispose of it in a landfill rather than mulching or burning it.

If you live in a tropical area, you’re in a great position to start planting. Tropical forests filter pollutants quickly and, with their deep roots, draw up water that evaporates into the atmosphere, helping to foster protective cloud cover that reflects sunlight back into space. In temperate parts of the globe, such as the U.S. and Europe, one result climatologists fear is that all those trees you plant will absorb and retain heat from the Sun, contributing to a rise in the temperature of the Earth’s surface of up to 10◦F by the year 2100 in those regions.

Enough with the bad news. Trees are not just vital for us, of course, but for fungi, insects, and other creatures great and small. Anything that encourages earthlings to appreciate and want to protect nature more rather than less-and looks so pretty in the process-has branches that reach far past tomorrow.

If you can’t get to patch of earth with a sapling, make a contribution to an organization that plants trees. Dig it!

-Source : from Global warming survival handbook 77 Essential skills to stop Climate change.****

By LinlyDollar