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 ...
If you hate heat, don’t live in Florida.
Genetically modifying lumber industry crop trees so their roots last centuries in the soil might be possible.
“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.”
The houses survived Milton’s winds quite well. I live very close to where Milton came ashore.
My neighbors across the street had a big pine blown down. Their backyard gets waterlogged and waterlogged soil will not reliably support large trees.
A couple in the neighborhood were required to plant ten hardwood trees in order to get a certificate of occupancy. Their $7,500 investment was blown over. Silver buttonwoods don’t stand up to hurricane winds well. My silver buttonwoods are now all destined to be shrubs.
And that is what companies like Weyerhaeuser do...”manage forests”...unlike state or fed govt “forestry depts” who just want things “natural” ie, burning or overgrown.
“trees...when planted in urban areas they will mitigate the urban heat island effect— make cities cooler in the summer.”
I remember the great street canopies of elms in my youth in upstate New York.
I would like to see elms genetically modified so such canopies can be recreated.
Nation’s First Chief Heat Officer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_heat_officer
Most chief heat officers are hired by cities, counties, and other forms of local government. The position emerged in the early 2020s, with several cities in hot climates appointing chief heat officers to try to mitigate the increasing effects of climate change by increasing shade, providing for cooling centers, planting trees, and coordinating anti-heat work.[1][2][3] Early heat officer positions were created in Los Angeles, Miami-Dade County, Melbourne, Athens, and Freetown.[4] The initiative to create the positions was organized by the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center.[5][6]
Sisyphean - adjective
Sis·y·phe·an
of, relating to, or suggestive of the labors of Sisyphus
specifically : requiring continual and often ineffective effort
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