Can Trees contribute to climate amelioration?
The year 2021-22 will go down in the books of history as the post-COVID year. Though many strains of the novel corona virus remain among the population we have adapted and evolved biologically. The war is not won but mankind fought together to win battles against COVID. The year has also borne witness to some dramatic climatic events across the world. Many places across the world have recorded some of the highest temperatures and most erratic precipitation patterns ever recorded in history of those places. This long term shift in temperature and weather pattern is known as climate change. Let me start with my journey of understanding climate change. Working as a system engineer after my bachelor, climate change came in as part of my general awareness. If I remember correctly the brief understanding included that the earth was getting warmer (process known as global warming), and humans had to keep the temperature below 2 0 C rise in global average temperature to the pre-industrial er...