The impact on short-term climate change is negligible. If the timeframe you're looking at is the next 50 years, it makes almost no difference to climate change

The impact on short-term climate change is negligible. If the timeframe you're looking at is the next 50 years, it makes almost no difference to climate change because climate change is affected so greatly by natural cyclic factors such as solar flare activity. However, it will most likely have a devastating effect on long-term climate change, because any damage to the ecology is cumulative and symbiotic. We do depend on plants to turn the carbon dioxide we exhale into the oxygen we need to respirate, after all.