RE:RE:climate changeTheeRook wrote: Destruction of the Rain Forests causes global warming. Since the start of civilation people started cutting down the trees for fuel and construction. Everywhere where thee are no trees there are deserts.
When deforestation occurs, much of the carbon stored by trees is released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, which contributes to climate change. In the last decade, the largest amounts of deforestation occurred across the humid tropics, mostly in Africa, followed by South America.
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The trees of tropical forests, like all green plants, take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and release oxygen during photosynthesis. They also carry out the opposite process—known as respiration—but when forests are growing, photosynthesis exceeds respiration, and the surplus carbon is stored in tree trunks and roots and in the soil. This is called “sequestration.”
When forests are cut down, much of that stored carbon is released into the atmosphere again as carbon dioxide (CO2). This is how deforestation and forest degradation contribute to global warming.
Tropical deforestation
deforestation, real pollution are things we humans should address and fix, not picking one odorless, colorless, tasteless gas CO2 as the target boogeyman to vilify.