When I was a kid, we were taught that trees consume CO2 and give off oxygen.
Now we are told the exact opposite is suppose to be true.
I wonder what the actual factual scientific correct answer is?
I am sure what we were taught as kids is true. Botany shows it to be so.
A mature forest is carbon neutral. Growing trees generate oxygen and impound carbon. Dead trees decay and thereby release carbon back into the atmosphere.
“When I was a kid, we were taught that trees consume CO2 and give off oxygen.
Now we are told the exact opposite is suppose to be true.”
No one is saying the “opposite”. CO2 is broken down by trees via photosynthesis and respiration then converts the glucose into carbon based matter.