2019-10-25

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🌲🌲🌲 Go to https://teamtrees.org 🌲🌲🌲 #TeamTrees We reached 20 million, but let's keep on planting!

Trees can take an astounding amount of carbon out of the air, which is good, because we need to do that times a trillion.

Thanks also to our Patreon patrons https://www.patreon.com/MinuteEarth and our YouTube members.

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carbon: element that makes up half of tree wood by weight

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Credits (and Twitter handles):

Script Writer: Alex Reich (@alexreich) and Peter Reich

Script Editor and Video Narrator: Alex Reich (@alexhreich)

Video Illustrator: Ever Salazar (@eversalazar) and Arcadi Garcia (@garirius)

Video Director: David Goldenberg (@dgoldenberg)

With Contributions From: Henry Reich, Kate Yoshida, Ever Salazar, Peter Reich, Julián Gómez, Sarah Berman, Arcadi Garcia Rius

Music by: Nathaniel Schroeder: http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder

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References:

Le Quéré, C et al. Global Carbon Budget 2018. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 2141–2194, 2018

JF Bastin, JF et al.The global tree restoration potential. Science 365 (6448), 76-79

Pillsbury NH; ML Kirkley. 1984. Equations for total, wood, and saw-log volume for thirteen California hardwoods. Res. Note PNW-RN-414. USDA, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 52 p

B. W. Griscom et al. 2017. Natural Climate Solutions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 114, 11645–11650.

Roe S et al. 2019. Contributon of the land sector to a 1.5C world. Nature Climate Change (in press)