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Originally Posted by Byte1
Sorry, but that has not been proven.
Kinda like saying, if we have more trees it will cause more shade and make the world cooler. Or since we have so many airline flights every day, there is more wind.
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This is NOT in ANY way critical of the post, merely an addition to it. Trees help keep the earth cool by providing shade and by evaporative cooling. Where water from the roots is drawn upward to the leaves by capillary action. It is pretty obvious that cities made up of concrete and DARK asphalt streets are warmer than their surrounding countryside. Also, it is why people in cities in the summer flock to parks for picnics and etc.
As far as the planet's warming goes........there are other considerations. The clear-cutting of old-growth forests is never GOOD even if small saplings are planted to replace them. The clear-cutting of the old-growth Amazon rainforest in Brazil is especially detrimental to the planet due to the sheer HUGE area involved.
Forests and the oceans are the earth's mechanisms for removing from the atmosphere the large EXCESS CO2 produced by the vehicles burning fossil fuel. (as opposed to the cleaner system of Electric Vehicles) The earth's problem and by extension mankind's problem is the rapid destruction of forests and the acidification of the oceans.