On December 30th of 2015, the world was presented evidence that the ice at the north pole was melting, being a whole 50 degrees Fahrenheit above average. An unlikely factor that comes into play when talking about climate change is the conservation of our tropical rain forests, since it accounts for nearly half of the warming on earth. While the promise was made in Paris last year to reduce carbon emissions, a more beneficial approach on top of that would be to pull carbon out of the atmosphere (which is exactly what rain forests do.) By regrowing and protecting the millions of acres of rain forest, we can see the result of massive absorption of carbon into the trees while continuing to grow. This is more likely to happen now than trying to cut out usage of fossil fuels completely, which would stun the world's economy.
My thoughts when reading this article were definitely in favor of this method, because despite believing that the fossil fuels we use are severely detrimental and downright terrible, I have trouble foreseeing that our advanced society would be willing to "go backwards". I believe that this would make for a good project topic, like the one for our class, simply because it is a problem that is world wide and would make a difference upon our implementation. We would not have to plant trees by any means, but simply plant grass, shrubs, and other botanic species ( that also don't require too much water due to our drought ).
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/11/climate-change-solutions-rainforest-melting-polar-ice-caps
My thoughts when reading this article were definitely in favor of this method, because despite believing that the fossil fuels we use are severely detrimental and downright terrible, I have trouble foreseeing that our advanced society would be willing to "go backwards". I believe that this would make for a good project topic, like the one for our class, simply because it is a problem that is world wide and would make a difference upon our implementation. We would not have to plant trees by any means, but simply plant grass, shrubs, and other botanic species ( that also don't require too much water due to our drought ).
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/11/climate-change-solutions-rainforest-melting-polar-ice-caps