GLOBAL WARMING ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION - BLOG STORY

When we moved to the house in Knoxville, Tennessee, there was a deck at the back of the house with some cover on top consisting of narrow inch-by-inch parallel wooden strips placed at distance two inches apart. The deck was practically unusable because it was too hot in all three seasons but the winter, and it was not much fun to sit in the winter outside. I decided to plant a wisteria and let it climb on top of the deck cover and create a shade. Not only did I enjoy a shaded deck, now the room on the second floor next to the deck is much cooler because the sun light instead of reflecting from the deck and heating the room (as it was before I planted the wisteria), now is absorbed by the green wisteria.

Recently, this created a train of thoughts in my head. We complain these days about global warming and we blame for this the carbon dioxide emitted from the coal burning steam plants that produce electricity. However, nobody thinks about alternative ways to reduce the global warming. At the same solar radiation, if the earth were covered with more green plants, it would be heated much less. On the other hand, the green plants would be breathing in carbon dioxide and using the solar radiation to produce more oxygen.

So, instead of imposing sanctions on the coal burning plants for emitting carbon dioxide, and looking for alternative ways to produce electrical energy, we should be planting more forests and green plants, instead of continuing to cut existing forest. If we are really smart, we should cut less forest and when we indeed need to cut, we should demand from the cutters to plant twice or three times more forest to compensate for what they have cut. Thus, the global warming, we complain about, could be a result of the deforestation, and could be compensated with replanting the forest back.