How does deforestation contribute to global warming?

Question

How does deforestation contribute to global warming?

Answer 1

depending on how these forest get destroyed( fires or cutting) fires release CO2 into the air(green house gases) and with thr trees gone there is less plants that can turn the CO2 back into other things/ take it out of the air. look up the carbon cycle and it will better explain what i am saying.

Answer 2

"Trees and plants take Carbon Dioxide, a Global Warming gas, from the air. bury the Carbon in the ground and release the Oxygen."

You have the wrong idea of photosynthesis. It takes 6 CO2 and turns it into CCCCCC in the Calvin Cycle. The CCCCCC becomes Glucose, which it breaks down into energy. The O2 is released into the air (Although plants DO REQUIRE OXYGEN!. They have to respire)

Plus, I was pretty sure Carbon HELPS the environment? Can someone please explain how what we exhale causes the planet's temperature to rise to catastrophic levels?

Answer 3

yeah aparently trees are the lungs of the earth. But did you know 80% of the earth's oxigen isn't produced by trees? So lets push the tree huger out of the picture and hug the 80% that is producing the oxigen

Answer 4

Deforestation contributes to Global Warming by the temperatures/fire.

Answer 5

Trees and plants take Carbon Dioxide, a Global Warming gas, from the air. bury the Carbon in the ground and release the Oxygen.

The oceans also take in CO2 but there are two differences: First, they do not separate the Oxygen from the CO2, like plants do.

Second, the oceans are "filled up!", saturated, they cannot absorb any more CO2, like they have been doing for 150 years. THAT's why nobody noticed that CO2 emissions were a problem, the CO2 got buried in the oceans or in the soil by plants and trees.

When the forest burn, they not only stop cleaning the air and produce the oxygen we need to survive, they produce a lot of CO2 while burning, also CO which is even more deadly.

So, burning the forest ends our protection and produces Global Warming gases and, also, the heat of burning increases the air temperature (OK, a very small fraction of one degree).

This minute increase of temperature dries the air and the dead wood and prepares it for the next forest fires.

Fires beget fires that beget fires until the forest becomes a desert. Not a good place to live.