After decades of pushing to plant tree after tree after tree, planting millions and billions of trees, with carbon offset companies saying they will use (some of the money) to plant trees, we’re now getting pushback from the Cult of Climastrology about planting trees
Climate change: UK forests ‘could do more harm than good’
Mass tree planting in the UK could harm the environment if not planned properly, a report warns.
Badly-planned trees would increase greenhouse gas emissions, say the government’s advisers on the economic value of the natural environment.
The report comes from the Natural Capital Committee (NCC), which says planting trees into peat bogs would prove a serious mistake.
Peat locks up vast quantities of carbon – but trees dry out peat.
This can release more greenhouse gases than the trees absorb.
One NCC member, Prof Ian Bateman from the University of Exeter, said: “The mantra has to be ‘the right tree in the right place’.“
“We would be crazy to undertake the massive scale of planting being considered if we did not also consider the wider effects upon the environment including impacts on wildlife, benefits in terms of reducing flood risks and effects on water quality, improvements to recreation and so on.â€
Soooooo, trees aren’t proper for everywhere?
The report adds that carpeting upland pastures with trees would reduce the UK’s ability to produce meat – which may lead to increasing imports from places that produce beef by felling rainforests.
Huh. Why are they suddenly coming out softly against all those trees?
(Vox) During his State of the Union address on Tuesday, President Trump didn’t breathe a word about climate change, the most serious threat to our security, health, economy, and natural world.
He did, however, mention his surprising new support for trees.
“To protect the environment, days ago, I announced that the United States will join the One Trillion Trees Initiative, an ambitious effort to bring together government and the private sector to plant new trees in America and all around the world,†Trump said.
As soon as Trump mentioned his support of the Trillion Trees Initiative, Warmists started finding ways to poo-poo it. Here’s Mother Jones
Trump’s Plan to Plant a Trillion Saplings Misses the Forest for the Trees
As a means to address climate change, it’s a complete cop-out.
CNN
Gizmodo
Trump’s Vow to Help Plant a Trillion Trees Is Worse Than Stupid
The Verge
If Trump came out in favor of gun control and abortion on demand, leftists would find reasons to be pro-gun and pro-life.
