hurricanes and trees

Trees 

• Hundreds of millions of trees were destroyed or badly damaged from Hurricane Katrina and have become an unexpectedly large contributor to global warming
• In fact, trees killed by Katrina will release about as much global warming pollution into the air as all the trees across the nation soak in over the course of one year, according to a study by Jeff Chambers, a Tulane University biology professor.
• One of the planets best defenses against global warming are trees because they collect and store the carbon dioxide that we put into the air.
• But when trees are killed, they decompose and start releasing that carbon dioxide back into the air, which then becomes part of the problem instead of helping Global Warming

 From Hurricane Katrina there were about 320 million trees killed which released around 105 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.   If the Earth continues to have hurricanes, will the population be able to keep up with planting new trees?   As the older trees die and get killed are people able to plant new trees and can the new trees absorb enough carbon dioxide to save the earth?  I think that in time this bell curve will turn and that the new baby trees will be able to help the earth and the global warming issue.  We have many elderly trees that will die on their own or by catastrophes, however the younger trees will grow and multiply on the earth. 

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