Global Warming = Hoax?

Actually they might not do

Trees themselves account for a very small percentage of the worlds greenery, with most of it being various forms of grasses or weeds all of which also produce oxygen

Also bearing in mind that many trees spend a lot of the year without leaves anyway

So if trees did produce the same amount of oxygen as CO2 we wouldnt suffocate anyway as they are far from being the only source of oxygen, and nature does seem to have a thing about balance

But if you go back and read what I wrote properly you will also see I didnt “tell you” anything, I simply put it forward as a distinct possibility, one you are as unlikely to be able to disprove as I would be to prove it

But unless trees collectively produce more than 15% of the planets oxygen their CO2 contribution matches it

Well if I thought it produced “more” I would have said that earlier

I do think its quite possible the two could pretty much equal out tho

But that said, nature is about equilibrium and balance, thats the whole point of an ecosystem after all

And as other forms of plany will produce little to no CO2 but loads of oxygen compared to trees I suppose to keep the balance it is quite likely that trees do produce more than they scrub from the air on average as it would hardly mean we ended up gasping for air lol

Basically I dont have a clue, theres possible logical arguements and practicalities to both extremes, but I’d be inclined to guess they were more likely to balance themselves out pretty much

I cant, I really dont think its as transparently obvious as you seem to

Trees arent CO2 scrubbers, its not their designated purpose and if it were they would all be ever green and would never loose a leaf to avoid the counter productivity of that

Firstly I dont even know if CO2 is lighter or heavier than air, so how much CO2 a tree would actually come into contact with just isnt known to begin with

As leaves are a solid molecular mass, AND as I dont know what percentage of the leaf breaks down into CO2 how much one tree would produce, nor how much would come into contact with it when it did have leaves (seeing as its the rotting leaves that cause the CO2) is also unknown

So, they could have the bulk of their leaves when theres very little CO2 for them to come into contact with, and then have no leaves to clean the air with when theres loads of CO2 around them because its their deciduated foliage thats causing the CO2 to begin with

So for trees to be a good CO2 scrubber they would either need to grow in the sea of in volcanos (which they dont) or have leaves all year round to scrub the CO2 their own leaves produce, because by the time they are causing the CO2 they arent capable of cleaning the air anyway

So as I said, it could go either way on balance, but I would guess they about equal each other out on average whereas other forms of plants dont cause as much CO2 but still clean the air, so maybe its lawns or stinging nettles rather than trees we ought to be planting

Well someone could also have still walked to france as little as 2000 years ago allegedly

But the romans crucified him because he kept dodging ferry fairs or summats like that :lol: :lol:

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