How Much Air Can A Tree Hold?  

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Trees: Gets all the fame for absorbing carbon dioxide Sea weed: I am a joke to you

what are all these tree vids in my sub box

I spent several minutes trying to come up with a good tree pun.... #TeamTrees assemble! This is an extremely cost-effective way to plant trees!!!

0:18 "RAID AREA 51" down bottom lol I liked the planty jokes, wonder where you grow them haha

my subscriptions are overrun by trees right now. Hooray!

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Great video!! The stadium size of CO2 fit into a tree is a great visual! It is a really great campaign. You mentioned that trees are 50% Carbon by weight, but I think you forgot about the water weight in trees. They are around 50% water weight, and then it's accurate to say they are 50% carbon of the dry weight.

I'm really glad this channel also discussed the larger picture of climate change and planting trees in context. Fighting climate change will require a lot more than simply planting trees; we need to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. In addition, planting many trees won't be as effective if we don't ensure the trees survive for a long time. A dollar a tree might make the global problem a bit too simplistic. Nevertheless it is a commendable effort to plant so many trees. Love your channel!

minute earth: "all ad revenue for this video will be donated to TeamTrees" youtube algorithm: * *D E M O N E T I Z E D* *

Why is every channel uploading videos about trees all of sudden. Is today a international trees day? Edit: Never mind. #TeamTrees

Mother Earth: “This does.... put a smile on my face.”

1:02 Fun fact: In Austria there is an art project where they have planted trees inside a soccer stadium. Now they have no idea where to put them and it's on discussion to use (diesel fueled) trucks to carry them around the country so that they can be planted in a different locaton. That's what I call sustainable!

Tree:Get get over here Carbon: Ok ): Tree:This is great but I got to leaf

Vsauce:how long can a toddler stay in a refirgerator

Nobody: Americans: 1 Stadiums's worth!

Three tree jokes? That's unTREElievable

Keep up the good work ☺🌳🌲🌲

Thanks for the help guys! #TeamTrees

All together we can make a treemendous difference 💪

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa team trees 🌲🌳🌴🌱🌿🌸🌼🌻☘️🍀🍃🌾🍄🌹🌷💐🌺☘️🍀🎍🎋🍃🦜🐁 Whispy woods!

Me, my mom and my brother was planting an apple tree! I'm more than happy to do this when I know almost 100% why we're even doing this!! 🐛🌳🌱

Give a raise to the artist for putting Whispy Woods at 0:58

I got 20 RU-vid notifications from different creators about trees at the same time ! This has potential ! #TEAMTREES +1🌲

0:56 is noone gonna talk about whispy woods?

All those tree puns are treeriffic :)

this sounds TREEmendously important I guess i could SEED(k) to save money to help save trees that would be OAK-KAY

The most economical way to deal with the co2 is to turn it into something stable that we can sell. Wooden objects and constructions that is built to last is one.

wow! so happy to find this video so early!

Those puns are so TREElling. They always make my day.

I love trees !

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Trees! Love trees.

1 million trees reached!!!

The puns 😂

Let it grow, let it grow! You can't reap what you don't sow. Plant a seed inside the earth. Just one way to know it's worth. Let's celebrate the world's rebirth, we say let it grow

I think the idea of planting trees is noble, and necessary. Just ponder how many have been lost to fire recently. I have seen the sickly trees that The Arbor Foundation sends out. You are better off gathering seed and sowing them, or starting your own arbor group. 👍 You might even have access to a master gardener program member. What a great school program.

There’s so many puns 😭 in every video 😂

My favorite fact about trees is they are immortal. With no outside, interference such as fire, insects, and humans of course, they could potentially live forever. Forever! Who's planet is it again?!? Lol They can also communicate and share nutrients through thier roots helping out neighboring trees. How friendly is that! :)

This is a great video

Those puns were great

0:56 I just realized in the bottom right corner Alex is eating a mackintosh apple

There is a little thing which people miss: cutting trees makes room for new trees, that will absorb more carbon as younger trees grow faster. And just cutting the tree does not immediately release the carbon it stores - if it is used for example in construction, then it will likely keep storing carbon for another 100 years at least. Probably more, assuming the building will be maintained correctly, termites won't attack that building and it will not be destroyed by accident (in a fire, for example). The wood that goes into furniture will probably last at least 10-20 years as well (people do not change furniture that much). And if its not the cheapest furniture available, but something with solid build, nice design and good resale value, that furniture may last very long as well. So we should keep out wood industry going and actually encourage use of wood everywhere where possible. We should not cut the natural forests with high biodiversity, though, as this usually releases more carbon in the long run - because a lot of animals that live there will die off, and they are built of carbon too. But many forests that are the source of our wood were actually planted (or re-planted) by humans and they do not support that much biodiversity, meaning cutting & replanting them is not going to cause serious changes.

I like the tree puns

I initially had doubts that reforestation was the best way to mitigate climate change, but I researched into the issue more and actually see how it makes sense. I made this post for those who have similar doubts. TL;DR In short, planting trees is actually one of the most cost effective sequestration methods (temporary or permanent), and is actually quite compatible with methods of long-term carbon sequestration. It does not solve the problem directly, but reforestation will be very helpful to give us time before disaster strikes. By the time the trees have grown, our CO2 emission rate will likely be plateauing or dropping, and by then our technology will be able to efficiently sequester the (now solid and concentrated) carbon. In the best case, if we successfully reduce emissions early enough then it will prevent a disaster from happening at all. In the worst case, it will give us more time and weaken the blow until emissions inevitably drop even without intervention. Why not reduce emissions? It's correct that it's far more important to prevent emissions of CO2 in the first place. But we all know the main problem is that there are strong economic pressures against that goal. It costs about $10 to $30 of energy to produce 1 ton of CO2 from fossil fuels [1]. The same amount of energy costs more in renewables, especially if upfront research or deployment costs are included. Also, intervening in the energy industry (via taxes, tax credits to competing renewables, etc.) will directly conflict with the interests of big corporations. But sequestering carbon while it is being emitted conflicts less with their interests. Perhaps the average citizen will have to pay for the sequestration, but they wouldn't use less energy from their provider, so they shouldn't have direct reasons to object to sequestration. I'm not saying that we should give up on transitioning to renewables. I'm just saying this transition can be slow, and we can't afford to be slow now. In a sense, we need to buy "extra years". Attempts to achieve this does not necessarily conflict with a transition to renewables. Emissions eventually will stop rising Of course, emissions rise because countries develop and standards of living improve [2]. But this actually cannot go on forever. Assuming that people don't increase their emissions indefinitely (unlikely as awareness of climate change rises), there will be a certain standard of living with the maximum emissions / person. Poorer communities will use less technology, and richer communities will use more efficient technology. Emissions will stop rising once the human population stabilizes and all countries reach this standard, which admittedly might take a long time, but it means that we should not expect indefinite growth. In fact, I speculate that it will plateau at 2 times the current emission rate. Scientists predict [3] a 30% increase by 2050, and while that's bad 30 years is a long time and global population / standards of living may be stabilizing around then. With decreased availability of fossil fuels and more economic capability to look to renewables, emissions should eventually should drop even without intervention. This means that the "extra years" do not just delay the inevitable. With enough time, the crisis will end even if we do not intervene (though not intervening will definitely hurt). Sequestration is pretty cost efficient It actually costs about $20 to plant enough trees to eventually absorb one ton of CO2, including the management costs [4]. This is pretty similar to the cost of energy for one ton of CO2. The Earth should have enough unused land to support 900 million hectares of forest [5]. If we account for albedo effects [6], we get in the ballpark of 150 billion tons of CO2 when fully used, or about 4 years of "extra time". We frankly don't know of a better method of sequestrating carbon after it mixes with the air. We do know pretty efficient methods of storing the carbon after it's extracted from the air, though. We already have carbon capture & storage mechanisms that are designed for power plants. These can be used on a biomass power plant to sequester carbon from trees. The carbon can also be converted to superfluid and buried underground. This sounds advanced but we already use this technology today, albeit for a different purpose (extracting oil). There is plenty of capacity to store a huge amount of CO2 this way [4]. By cutting trees and performing sequestration, we can buy even more time; I speculate 10 to 15 years of "extra years". These "extra years" will be useful in the transition to renewable power, and once the transition is in full force the "extra years" directly reduce the ecological impact of the CO2. [1]: www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/02/climate/pricing-carbon-emissions.html [2]: www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46347453 [3]: climatenexus.org/climate-change-news/rcp-8-5-business-as-usual-or-a-worst-case-scenario/ [4]: cen.acs.org/environment/greenhouse-gases/Capturing-carbon-save-us/97/i8 [5]: newatlas.com/trees-reforestation-climate-change/60446/ [6]: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2016GL071459

Thanks MinuteEarth very cool

Wow! After I watched Mr. Beast I'm like "Why everyone doing dis?" I just realized everyone is working together I think... #TEAMTREES

Those puns were so sappy.

Seeing this makes me immensely happy.

0:55 is that whispy woods?

Gotta love the todo list at 0:19

Great video!

What a load of hot air

Wow everyone is in on this!

Wait I know this one.. As much air as tree would hold if a tree could hold air Nailed it 🤓

very informative

Proud Ecosia user :)

I subbed when I finished the video We all should because one sub can change the world!

How are there people that disliked this video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice video

Cyanobacteria can do the job in a smaller footprint, but costs more to establish and if you want to maximize the biodensity you need to use some energy for recirculation. There's also a nutrient cost, but you should be able to connect such a system to wastewater treatment facilities and utilize their excess nitrogen. You could also read direct flow from Farmland. Effectively solving both the issue of algae blooms - which doesn't really do any good since the decomposition will kill fish resulting in more carbon released and absorbed - and the issue of global climate change.

20000000 trees in a 4m grid make 320 square km, roughly the land surface of Malta. Impressive!

Can't wait for #TeamBees

Puns? Alex: yess and I oop!

Those were a lot of puns.

1:01 I see you Whispy Woods.

Go trees!

kirby: hold up

We should reduce the amount of carbon that power stations release. There is already technology available for that. The gas will pass electrified mesh, causing it to be positively charged, then a pair of metal plates with a negative charge would attract the gas molecules. This aimple system can make the gas exhaust *cleaner* than the air around it. Singapore has already implemented this system and it has shown its effectiveness.

The interesting part is nobody proved the carbon dioxide concentration needs to be reduced. To stabilize it to current levels an increase of about 3% in plant biomass is necessary. Ocean life plays a huge role in this cycle too.

So the next thing we'll collect 20 million dollars for is proving the Riemann hypothesis

Sooo many youtubers making vids about trees including MinuteEarth #TeamTrees

0:19 TO DO *End poverty & hunger *Reduce CH2 in air *Prove Reimann hypothesis *Mars colony *Invent hoverboard From Back to the Future *Storm Area 51 the last 2 points are really important

I planted 3 plants today😊

By the way, what do you think of Project Vesta? They plan on mining and distributing olivine on a bunch of high energy beaches to soak up co2 over time

Can/did you or someone in the team tree make a video about how big is the area for trees is enough to feed one person, in the sense of food and oxygen? Note: rather than number of tree, it should be about the area trees can cover because their energy come from sunlight.

People keep coming to our house wanting to cut down our bushes and trees in our front garden which I prune myself and would only let a as qualified tree surgeon near if they did need management I couldn't do.

This was actually in a minute. First Time!

This event is nice and all, I even wish to donate. Unfortunately here in the NL most people don't have credit cards (me included) and there's no other way to donate. Maybe they should've thought about that.

Here's some piece of ironic geopolitical stance regarding this campaign that people should know about: Here in Brazil, the land of burning Amazon forest, "Sorry, you can't donate in this country or region yet". xD No, I'm not kidding.

How long did it take to come up with all those tree puns? Lol they were tree-tastic or tree-mendous lol I'll leave the tree puns to the tree-experts! Cat related puns: They were paw-some, purrfect ok I can't think of any more it took me ages to think of those,so don't judge me ok? I love ur vids I think u are an amazing you tuber!

That's what i call making carbon out of thin air

im searching up #teamtrees and liking an sharing every video

TEAM TREES

Questions - on how big area will it be planted? Forestry plants millions of trees on relatively small areay every year. Will this create new forest? Will it be protected? Will it be on private or public land? What will it replace? I have many more. You din't mention anthing about that in a video.

AAAAAAHHHHHH BAD TREE PUNS ok it's from my roots of humour dudunchiey

I considered donating until you started with all those tree puns

Great video like always. You're such an inspiration for my own channel. Thanks a bunch!!!

Just donated!

Within a span of 15 min, $20,000 has been donated.

Lets make this vidio go viral

Trees: exist Humans: RECEIPTS NEEDS TO BE MORE LONGER THEN THEY NEED TO BE

Go teamtrees!

bing's image of the day is a stadium full of trees

what about when the trees die and decompose? then all that carbon gets released again?

OHHH GOD THE PUNS

20 million trees is ONLY 0.002% of the total trees we need!! And even achieving the 100% which looks impossible, wouldn't be enough at the current pollution level so we'd still need to change ALL those consumer habits and industries!!! C'mon man! You sound way too happy and positive for the real message you're giving.

i can confirm minute earth went to the raid 0:19 at the bottom

#TeamTrees 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

I thought the tree puns ended with Lemmino. I was wrong.