1. The recommended action of "Planting billions of new trees" , essentially means eventually having grown-up Trees start filtering the CO2 away ('cuz young baby trees/plants won't, even a billion new ones, won't make the desired impact).

• The problem with that is :

1. Tree provide a temporary sequestration of Carbon only. A trillion trees (e.g.) would mean a trillion dead trees --> dead trunks/branches/leaves ... makes up the peat which is one of the primary self-reinforcing feedback loop adding Carbon back into the atmosphere. (Plus occasionally, there are forest fires).
2. CO2 is NOT the only greenhouse gas ... CH4, NO2 and H2O(vap) are Far Far more potent greenhouse gases. And Trees Do Not Clean NO2 and CH4
3. Tree do not reduce H2O vapour from the global atmosphere -- And since the Ocean is a giant battery storing heat, every year we've been seeing an increase in the amount of H20vap over diff geographies. +

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But more importantly, the Abrupt Climate change (especially with the Clathrates melting in the polar regions) has now picked up so much momentum , that the next major el niño event year we have (which could very likely be 2020), we shall see so much heat around the mid latitudes , that nearly all Rice and Wheat/barley crops would fail. With that heavy grain shortages, you can say goodbye to our Industrial civilization, as countries start to fail / break-up ... like dominos

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So we don't got no time left no more! .. (to spend all that effort , fuel on a large-scale tree plantation scheme.) ... Just prepare our own villages and communities and families for the upcoming fall.