Climate Change # 1

This is part of what I’ve read and learned about Climate Change so far...

Trees absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) and, according to data, there are around 3 trillion trees in the world. In spite of this, more or less some 38 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide is still emitted to the atmosphere yearly. The United States, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, Russia, India and China are among the largest per capita CO2 emitters. These CO2 emissions are among the greenhouse gases trapped in the atmosphere for many years even centuries contributing to global warming, and the volume of the emissions is increasing annually.

While planting more trees may be one of the solution to global warming, a young hardwood can only absorb 48 pounds of CO2 per year. Hence, it would take at least 1.5 trillion new trees strategically spread throughout the world to counter the effects of CO2. Were not yet talking about other greenhouse gases like methane, nitrous oxide and trioxygen, and also chlorofluorocarbons, hydrochlorofluorocarbons and halons. Meanwhile, the greenhouse effect is already here with the worsening bushfires, continuous El Niño and La Niña cycles, extreme storms and floods, and other natural phenomena like weird hailstorms and rapid ice melting in and around the polar regions.