As most of the United States is contending with extreme heat, wildfire smoke or flash flooding, and a growing number of Americans say climate change has 'made things worse' in their lives, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has an answer to those who worry that his caucus's promotion of expanded fossil fuel production might exacerbate climate change: Plant trees.
. They argued that the initial study made erroneous assumptions about the feasibility of planting trees in areas that are currently covered in other plants, such as grasslands. They also pointed out that planting trees in areas where they don't grow naturally could destroy ecosystems, with negative consequences for biodiversity and freshwater supplies."National tree-planting schemes have, historically, come up short,".
And, of course, even if the most optimistic scenarios were realistic, they wouldn’t solve the problem if we keep producing carbon emissions. "Reforestation might buy us up to a decade of time," Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at the Breakthrough Institute, a think tank in California, ."It doesn't really fundamentally change the story: We still need some pretty massive reductions in our emissions. ... You're going to max out pretty soon if you only try to use forests. Tree planting is not an alternative to mitigation.", saying they were endorsing tree planting only in comparison with other ways of capturing and storing carbon, not reducing emissions.
“The authors stated in the abstract and in the main text that tree restoration is the most effective solution to climate change to date. This was incorrect,” they wrote. “They meant that they know of no other current carbon drawdown solution that is quantitatively as large in terms of carbon capture. They did not mean that tree restoration is more important than reducing greenhouse gas emissions or should replace it.
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