TREES HELP SAVE OUR PLANET
For more than 4 billion years, the greenhouse effect has kept our planet’s temperature at a friendly level. Gases found in the atmosphere act to trap heat and keep our planet insulated, able to sustain itself. Problems only began to arise when scientists noticed that certain practises and human activities contribute to the modification af this process.
Over the past fifty years, production of gases that are responsible for this entrapment has risen sharply. The problem is that these gases have nowhere else to go and continues to build up over the years. by building up, they cuase the atmosphere to become more efficient in trapping heat, causing climates to turn warmer leading to global warming.
Global warming has caused the increase in sea level, significant disruption of the planting and harvesting of crops leading to problems in the economy on a local and national level. Other disasters including abrupt weather changes such as heat waves that last longer and accur with more frequency, stronger storms and hurricanes, extinction of certain plants and animals, the growth population of mosquitoes and many more disasters that continue to occur in our planet.
As in habitants or Earth, we shoud all do what is within our power to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas being released. Trees help reduce the greenhouse effect, by providing shade and shelter from the elements, reducing our reliance on air conditoning and CFC as well as artificial heat sources that emit other greenhouse gases. Tress also trap CO2 in the atmosphere. A single tree will absorb approximately one ton of carbon dioxide during its lifetime. One acre of trees removes 2.6 tons of CO2 every year. The bigger and healthier the tree is, the more CO2 it sequesters. The lesser the number of trees , the less CO2 will be absorbed. Therefore, helping trees grow and keeping them healthy is one-step to help save our planet.
Tags: global warming
Women Healthy | sapto | 
September 12, 2008 1:37 am
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