Posted on 10/17/2024 4:39:53 AM PDT by dennisw
Planting over 16,000 trees.
Increasing the tree canopy is a priority because trees provide shade, lower the ground surface temperature and offset carbon emissions by capturing carbon dioxide. For nearly two decades, Miami-Dade has struggled to reach its goal of 30 percent tree cover.
Gilbert explains that rampant development and hurricane damage have made meeting this a Sisyphean task. The fact that the county isn’t backsliding is an achievement, she insists—it’s currently hovering around 20 percent. This year Miami-Dade will invest a record $7 million in tree planting, with an emphasis on low-income neighborhoods, which tend to have the least shade.
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
Wonder who owns the tree nursery.
I’m all for planting a trillion trees, that’s good for the air and the water too. Don’t bury them, use them for lumber massive amounts of lumber, grow fruit trees ,nut trees too, use the sawdust to feed cows with it at 70% of their feed. It’s been done with great success. If you have excess wood turn that into ethanol,or protein or starch/lipids via GMO microbes that eat cellulose,and hemicellulose and excrete any of those bioproducts. Hooch,feed for chickens and pigs, or biodiesel. It’s a shame to just bury the wood to make the greencommies happy.
The trouble with Hurricanes hitting Florida is not trees, but that the land is flat - to the extent of only being a handful of feet above sea level.
100 to 400 billion stars.
3.04 trillion trees in the world
If you plant one tree, and much later it dies and rots into the ground, you could have nice soil to grow food on.
If you erect one solar panel, and it gets damaged in a storm, you have soil that is so poisoned from the fragments and chemicals, you cannot grow eatable food on it.
Wonder how much that person makes a year...
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Miami-Dade County, Florida records show Jane Gilbert held one job between 2023 and 2024. One of the most recent records in 2024 lists a job of Chief Heat Officer and a pay of $169,452.50. This is 123.3 percent higher than the average pay for co-workers and 136.2 percent higher than the national average for government employees.
Miami-Dade County, Florida Employee Salaries 2023
https://openpayrolls.com/county/miami-dade-county-fl/2023/page-592?__cf_chl_tk=RNd5Xh2nO9ipLuj6mAfSADZikWWPGbgkAbP9brjmRDU-1729171506-1.0.1.1-_1m.39BkafGLipQcunZJ3cUn8TmzsguUIV7dZ5Ronzw
https://openpayrolls.com/employee/jane-gilbert-306
Then there is the fact that you can still grow things under solar panels
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Just do not eat them, or you will be eating the chemicals and degraded particles that are leached off the surface of the panel during a rain/snow storm. Toxic heavy metals for one.
Cows eat contaminated grass from the contaminated soil leached off the solar panel. Human drinks the milk, eats the butter and meat, wonders why he’s having a health problem.
Remember as you cite those ‘facts’, the solar panel is made in China where there are no environmental restrictions, and lying about almost everything is a way of life politically.
The whole FR news feed menu is climate change. Is there a less relevant topic?
Planting trees will have no effect on the overall climate, but when planted in urban areas they will mitigate the urban heat island effect— make cities cooler in the summer. For that, and for esthetic reasons, it is worthwhile.
I have four FEMA piles of tree debris from Milton sitting by the street. There’s also bundles and garbage cans of debris for Waste Management that I hope will get picked up today.
Hurricanes have trashed the yards of my neighborhood. There’s probably only 30% of the tree cover that we had before Ian.
There are a number of shingle roof failures in my neighborhood. I suspect that the shingles were shaded and did not heat bond together.
Second, quit wasting money stifling the U.S. economy and productivity.
Third, if you really believed mankind could impact the climate you'd be raising hell about coal plants in China and India.
A heat czar! Kinda cool title. I’d enter to The Heat is On by Glenn Frey for press conferences. That said I would do the exact opposite of what the position was envisioned by leftists.
It’s so hot that the oceans are evaporating faster than they can inundate the shorelines.
The effort should not take a special job/office for someone to oversee. Meetings between and coordination amoung exsisting city officials should be sufficient for the task.
“Alternative Approaches Favored by Gates
Carbon capture technologies (crazy-stupid pumping of CO2 underground. The Biden administration has blown millions on some pilot projects)”
Carbon capture is being required by regulation.
“Base load affected facilities that follow the CCS pathway must meet a second phase standard based on 90% capture of CO2, using CCS, by 2035”
“Baseload affected facilities that follow the low-GHG hydrogen pathway must meet a second phase standard based on co-firing 30% low-GHG hydrogen by volume by 2032 and a third phase standard based on cofiring 96% by volume low-GHG hydrogen by 2038”
“must”
Imagine what your future electric bills would look like under Kamala and her successors.
Vote for Trump and a Republican Congress to make sure America has a bright future.
“Base load”
The solar and wind top-up generating facilities the Greedy Greenwich types are investing in will not have to participate.
Trees are great at all those things, except CO2 capture. A plain grass lawn is much better since grass grows so much faster and most of a tree is dead wood.
“counteract the CO2 emissions from their private jets”
Greta may be fooled, but Mother Nature will not be fooled.
Jet CO2 emissions linger in the atmosphere for hundreds of years.
Power plant CO2 emissions get largely removed from the atmosphere within days.
The (amount of CO2) TIMES (the time it lingers in the atmosphere) is what matters (about a tenth of what the greenies think it does).
“Chief Heat Officer...pay of $169,452.50”
enough to make one hot under the collar
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