3.+COOLING+OR+FOOLING?

**Global Warming, caused by the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, is a serious environmental problem. Many believe planting trees, trapping CO2 and providing shade in urban areas, can be part of the solution. However, recently some have doubted how effective tree planting is as a solution, saying it distracts from more direct solutions.**

**After reading Greg McPherson's Urban Tree Planting and Greenhouse Gas Reductions and Joe Parrino's Cooling or Fooling? Environmentalists split on Tree Planting as a Climate solution, write a full two-page essay on the connection between urban forestry and global warming. You must directly quote from the articles, with proper citation, at least twice in your essay. A suggested essay outline is provided below. **

**INTRODUCTION: **

**Why is global warming a problem? What negative effects do scientists expect from global warming? What impact will Global Warming have on arboriculture? **

**PARAGRAPH 2:**

**Why do environmentalists believe tree planting will reduce global warming?**
 * **Carbon Sequestration**
 * **Shade & Energy Costs**
 * **Economic Benefits of Tree Planting**

**PARAGRAPH 3:**

**Why do some doubt that tree planting will reduce global warming?**
 * **Effects are temporary**
 * **Tree planting more effective in certain environments than others**
 * **Seedling take 40 years to achieve peak sequestration**
 * **False sense of security**

**PARAGRAPH 4:**

<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","Book Antiqua",Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;">**What is your opinion about the debate?**
 * <span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","Book Antiqua",Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;">**How will this affect you and the field or urban forestry?**
 * <span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","Book Antiqua",Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;">**Which side presents the best evidence? Why?**

<span style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype","Book Antiqua",Palatino,serif; font-size: 18px;">**CONCLUSION**

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