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Why not plant trees? https://forestsnews.cifor.org/10316/make-it-rain-planting-forests-to-help-drought-stricken-regions?fnl=en https://forestsnews.cifor.org/103

Why not plant trees? https://forestsnews.cifor.org/10316/make-it-rain-planting-forests-to-help-drought-stricken-regions?fnl=en https://forestsnews.cifor.org/10316/make-it-rain-planting-fo...

mdorazio 9y ago
They are [1]. Planting trees alone is not enough. [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-tree-plant-soldiers-reassign-climate-change-global-warming-deforestation-a8208836.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-tree-pla...
RosanaAnaDana 9y ago
So trees don't change the 0 sum aspect behind cloud seeding: if the rain falls in one place, it can't rain in some other place. The primary reason why plants (read: anything photosynthetic) have a role to play in where it rains is the same principle behind cloud seeding. Plants, when they don't have sufficient nutrients to run photosynthesis and make new plant material, release unused photosynthesis as short chained hydrocarbons, usually ethane and some derivatives. Idea here is that it gives them a place to land the electrons from photosynthesis without tearing themselves apart when nutrients aren't readily available. These short chained hydrocarbons go on to play the same role as the silver compound used by China; they form the 'seeds' for droplet formation. Neither method does anything to address the fact that there is only so much water in the atmosphere (although that is changing with a changing climate).
echevil 9y ago
China is probably planting more trees than any other country in the world. http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/20305/20160321/china-reforestation-nasa-deforestation-efforts-pollution.htm http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/20305/20160321/china... “Based on the images captured by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), it was revealed that 1.6 percent of the total land surface of China became heavily forested in a span of only ten years from 2000 to 2010.” http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1854/20162559 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1854/2016... “China is investing immense resources for planting trees, totalling more than US$ 100 billion in the past decade alone”

Why not plant trees? https://forestsnews.cifor.org/10316/make-it-rain-planting-forests-to-help-drought-stricken-regions?fnl=en https://forestsnews.cifor.org/10316/make-it-rain-planting-fo...

mdorazio 9y ago

They are [1]. Planting trees alone is not enough. [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-tree-plant-soldiers-reassign-climate-change-global-warming-deforestation-a8208836.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-tree-pla...

RosanaAnaDana 9y ago

So trees don't change the 0 sum aspect behind cloud seeding: if the rain falls in one place, it can't rain in some other place. The primary reason why plants (read: anything photosynthetic) have a role to play in where it rains is the same principle behind cloud seeding. Plants, when they don't have sufficient nutrients to run photosynthesis and make new plant material, release unused photosynthesis as short chained hydrocarbons, usually ethane and some derivatives. Idea here is that it gives them a place to land the electrons from photosynthesis without tearing themselves apart when nutrients aren't readily available. These short chained hydrocarbons go on to play the same role as the silver compound used by China; they form the 'seeds' for droplet formation. Neither method does anything to address the fact that there is only so much water in the atmosphere (although that is changing with a changing climate).

echevil 9y ago

China is probably planting more trees than any other country in the world. http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/20305/20160321/china-reforestation-nasa-deforestation-efforts-pollution.htm http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/20305/20160321/china... “Based on the images captured by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), it was revealed that 1.6 percent of the total land surface of China became heavily forested in a span of only ten years from 2000 to 2010.” http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1854/20162559 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1854/2016... “China is investing immense resources for planting trees, totalling more than US$ 100 billion in the past decade alone”