much does that help the global clim- ate situation?
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/11/28/tree-planting-forests.html

That's great. It's good to see that other countries are planting trees. If they take care of them, they should help clean the air while the world finds a cleaner source of energy. The trees should improve the land and provide habitat for wildlife as well.

It depends on where. Every small part helps out. Do you part to.

Yes. What they don't tell you is that the UN pays countries to plant trees. So these countries first deforest land to sell the trees then they go to the UN to ask for money to replant the forest.

Sadly this perverted logic is used elsewhere. The UN pays countries to remove co2 and other pollution. This motivates countries to produce more co2 and pollution so it can be removed in order to collect money from the UN.

It depends on where it is. In the north, trees absorb more heat than snow and increase global warming. The trees will eventually die and decompose to CO2 so wheres the advantage. I like the idea of increasing the biomass even though the impact on global warming is probably nearly zero. You would probably be better off fertilizing the oceans to increase biomass.

We have been planting millions of trees every year in the U. S. for years and years. No one ever mentions that fact. Our forestry management is one of the best in the world.