Climate Change at arborday.org (2024)

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Climate Change at arborday.org? ›

Through the natural process of photosynthesis, trees absorb CO² and other pollutant particulates, then store the carbon and emit pure oxygen. See how planting trees helps fight climate change. Planting the right trees around your home saves energy. Greener communities are cooler communities.

The analysis by John Sterman, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Andrew P. Jones, executive director of the nonprofit Climate Interactive, found that planting a trillion trees would prevent only 0.15 degrees Celsius (0.27 Fahrenheit) of warming by 2100.

Arbor Day sprouted from the mind of a zealous tree lover named Julius Sterling Morton, who had a passion for planting all kinds of trees. The first Arbor Day occurred on April 10, 1872, in Nebraska City, Nebraska. It's estimated that nearly one million trees were planted on this day.

Planting trees is a simple thing everyone can do to reduce carbon dioxide, a principal greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. No matter where you live, you can plant trees...and take a proactive, positive step toward keeping our planet healthy. Plant trees in your yard and around your home.

Trees only capture carbon while they are alive. Trees can die and they can burn, whether due to bushfires or being cut down for firewood. In these cases, all that carbon is returned to the atmosphere, which means the carbon captured during the tree's lifetime has been for nothing.

Unfortunately, trees are still being removed from the earth at a rapid rate the 2015 Nature study also estimates that around 15 billion trees are being cut down each year, many of which are not replanted. At that rate, only 2.5 trillion trees will exist on earth by 2050.

Today, annual tree harvest vs. production on a worldwide scale shows that humans cut down approximately 15 billion trees a year and re-plant about 5 billion.

The Arbor Day Foundation: Began in 1972 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first Arbor Day. Is one of the world's largest nonprofit conservation organizations dedicated to planting trees. The Foundation plants and distributes more than 10 million trees each year.

By contrast, Arbor Day does not promote any political agenda.

The agriculture board agreed, and after some back-and-forth about the title—the event was originally going to be called “Sylvan Day” in reference to forest trees—Morton convinced everyone that the day should reflect the appreciation of all trees, and “Arbor Day” was born.

What is predicted to happen in the next 50 years due to global warming? ›

Future changes are expected to include a warmer atmosphere, a warmer and more acidic ocean, higher sea levels, and larger changes in precipitation patterns. The extent of future climate change depends on what we do now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The more we emit, the larger future changes will be.

The live oak is the most efficient carbon capturing tree, it being able to sequester some 10,994 CO₂ equivalent over its lifetime.

Trees absorb odors and pollutant gases (nitrogen oxides, ammonia, sulfur dioxide and ozone) and filter particulates out of the air by trapping them on their leaves and bark. In one year an acre of mature trees can provide enough oxygen for 18 people.

Eighty percent of Earth's land animals and plants live in forests, and deforestation threatens species including the orangutan, Sumatran tiger, and many species of birds. Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun's rays during the day and retains heat at night.

While most root systems will begin to decompose after the stump has been ground, aggressive roots are more likely to produce sprouts. This is because the tree roots are still alive. Trees are resilient, and like all living things, they will try to survive and reproduce.

We found that planting 1 trillion trees, under optimistic conditions, would remove only 6% of the needed CO2 reduction. And that would require a wildly unrealistic amount of land, over 2 billion acres, which is to say over 2 billion football fields—greater than the total land area of the contiguous United States.

Trees provide so many benefits to our everyday lives. They filter clean air, provide fresh drinking water, help curb climate change, and create homes for thousands of species of plants and animals. Plant a Billion Trees can help us save the Earth from climate change and biodiversity loss.

A human breathes about 9.5 tonnes of air in a year, but oxygen only makes up about 23 per cent of that air, by mass, and we only extract a little over a third of the oxygen from each breath. That works out to a total of about 740kg of oxygen per year. Which is, very roughly, seven or eight trees' worth.

Period! In a world without forests, Earth will have massive soil erosion in all of our waterways, because tree roots conserve soil. Without trees, farmers and gardeners would have no birds feeding on insect pests and no pollinators that rely on forest canopies for some of their life cycles.