Are plants a viable option to solve global warming?

Subject: Are plants a viable option to solve global warming?

Date: Tue Apr 24 09:51:19 2007
Posted by diego
Grade level: 10-12 School: No school entered.
City: kalispell State/Province: montana Country: U.S.
Area of science: Earth Sciences
ID: 1177433479.Es

Message:


Could plants sequester most of the CO2 in the atmosphere if they were planted 
everywhere? If I plant trees in my backyard will they sequester CO2 for long 
periods of time? And when they decompose will they let into the atmosphere all 
the CO2 they had sequestered?

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