Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for October 08, 2021

I think I shall never see a sight more lovely than a tree!!!

I remember an SCTV episode where Dave Thomas plays a Scot and Rick Moranis plays a rabbi. The rabbi’s response to, “Hey Jew, had enough holidays yet?” is, “Hey English, why don’t you cut down a tree and put it in your living room?” I know this has nothing to do about climate change, but still enjoy a slice of Canadian humour… eh? (Don’t even get me started on Kids in the Hall!)

Unfortunately, they’re flammable, and will release much of the carbon as they’re being killed by fire.

But then, every winter, these machine’s carbon-eliminating devices will fall to the ground rendering them useless fo at least 6 months. Damn, you, climate change! How dare you foil our intentions yet again!

Of course if there was less poverty in the world (I mean if a handful of people didn’t have 95%+ of the wealth) then there’d be less deforestation too. Win, win.

Tax the rich and corporations to make them pay their fair share – instead of the insanity of putting their fair burden on the shoulders of everyone but them. What a concept.

Oh hey, capitalism sucks. Must be a day that ends in ‘y’.

Not just trees! Grasses and shrubs are better adapted to many ecosystems and retain a huge amount of carbon in the soil.

I did something that is a double-headed plan for reducing CO2…I quit mowing a plot of land that I almost never used for anything, and am letting it go back to a mixed growth forest. Less exhaust from my mower, less use of fossil fuels, and the Pines, Cedars, Oaks, and Spruce trees are spreading like crazy! Sure, it’s only about an acre or so, but every little bit helps. Plus, I like the fact that there are more birds and other wildlife coming back…

Unfortunate. The just-plant-trees error is a bad penny that keeps turning up.

Fortunately, there is enhanced weathering of silicates. The result, alkaline earth carbonate and silica, is rock. It does not need to be buried and it’s down for good. Please also see https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/163140/

How will we make money on them? Typical reaction!

I think that I shall never see…

A billboard lovely as a tree.

And if the billboards do not fall,

I’ll never see a tree at all.

— Ogden Nash

Yes, we know how to reverse climate change. The mega corporations just haven’t found solutions they can monopolize and price gouge.

Nikola Tesla story all over again….

How many trees have been cut down in your neighborhood in just the last ten years? How many have been replaced? Multiply by millions – there’s your problem.

I hope he put that plan that he ripped up in the second last panel into the recycle bin.

“But it probably pumps harmful byproducts into the air…” Technically, they do—and of course Republicans jumped on that, deliberately ignoring the bigger picture.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/84021/killer-trees-not-exactly

(excerpt) In 1981, President Ronald Reagan claimed that trees produce more air pollution than automobiles, fueling a spate of jokes about “killer trees.” He was mostly wrong, but not completely.

It is true that forests emit volatile organic compounds and reactive hydrocarbons such as isoprene, a chemical that contributes to air pollution. Although isoprene is harmless by itself, the gas reacts with other substances in the atmosphere to form certain types of fine aerosols and ground-level ozone. (Ozone near the ground causes health problems, damages crops, and contributes to climate change. In the stratosphere, it is beneficial because it prevents harmful ultraviolet rays from reaching Earth’s surface.)

“What Reagan neglected to indicate is that unhealthly levels of ozone wouldn’t form without nitrogen oxides (NOx), pollutants emitted when gasoline and coal are burned,” explained Bryan Duncan, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the deputy project scientist for the Aura satellite. Since sunlight is ubiquitous and forests emit large quantities of volatile organics in the summer, it is the amount of nitrogen oxide that determines whether ozone forms over cities on hot summer days. That NOx is most often supplied by vehicles. (end excerpt)

Not sure how well added oxygen will do for us since we would still have too much CO2.

Must be a Republican owned company!

Unfortunately we passed the point where photosynthesis can keep up close to the years ago. Sucks to be earthlings

We need to talk A LOT about reducing human overpop without killing anyone who’s now alive and isn’t a psychopath.

Oxygen isn’t the Only byproduct.

Some of them also produce delicious Fruit.