My solution to combat planet CO2.

Global Warming & Climate Change Forum

I have probably the most simple solution that should win me the Pulitzer Prize and it's so dog gone easy it's rediculus.

Plant more trees! Maybe even more Kudzu! If you don't know what Kudzu is let me know.

Why? Because our planet lives on CO2. That's right the planet lives on CO2.

Any Junior High student knows that plants take in CO2 and produce O2 commonly refered to as Oxygen.

This is probably the biggest reason to NOT clearcut the Rain Forests.

The cool thing about this is that everyone can do their part. Plant a tree, grow a garden plant some flowers etc.

So what'd ya think, am I on to something?

That would help because plants consume CO2. Today it was announced that Richard Branson and Al Gore have teamed up and are offering a $25 million prize to anyone who can figure out a way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere. They have not yet told us how much unwanted CO2 is in the atmosphere, so I wonder how much they want to remove.

Only problem I can see is not everyone has acres of land to plant forests, woods, trees or even a few plants. But anyone who has the space it can't do any harm.

Don't need acres and acres, just need everyone to do their part.

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has indicated that stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations at "moderate" levels might require cutting fossile fuel use by 60 to 80 percent worldwide. Kyoto member countries might have to cut much more in order to balance the rising emissions of developing countries such as China and India which Kyoto exempts from compliance. China is building 562 new coal fired power plants, at the rate of one every five days.

I don't know why any green minded person would not boycott Chinese products.

if you own a 200ftx200ft plot of land.. plant a tree!

it'll work baby!

That is an effective solution if it can be implemented. But the fact is that if everyone will do their own piece of work then all the contributions will combine together to present a great solution.

I agree that is a good solution. There is lots of unused land in the world (I got the chance to travel through russia this summer... yeah, they got more land that they will be ever able to use).

Planting trees will help, but to really solve the problem as it is presented, we need to stop using electricity and stop driving cars.

We don't have to stop using electricity just change the way it is generated.

Um...the U.S. still pollutes more than China, so any boycott of China would constitute a boycott of any U.S. productions.

Planting trees is a good solution to it, but don't forget that trees are only a method of carbon sequestration, it's only a temporary solution, so it'll finally go down to efficiency, technology development, and revolutionary government policies.