How Do Trees Extract CO2?

How exactly do trees extract CO2 from the atmosphere? And in general, how do they fight climate change?
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Table of Contents:
0:22 Graph of Temperature Anomaly vs CO2 in atmosphere vs Fossil Fuels
1:05 Structure of Cellulose in trees
1:43 How do trees extract CO2
2:48 Let's plant 20,000,000 Trees! Support the Arbor Day Foundation
Made by Teddy Tablante
Background Understanding:
Molecules
Animation built using Blender 2.79b
Post with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects
Sound editing with Reaper
Work Cited:
Wikipedia contributors. "Cellulose." "Wood." "Photosynthesis." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Visited September, 2019
science.sciencemag.org/conten...
Data of CO2 ppm
www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/tr...
Data of Temperature Anomaly for each year
climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/...
Data of Fossil Fuels Burnt
ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels
Global Tree Restoration Potential
science.sciencemag.org/conten...
#TeamTrees #ClimateChange #CO2

[@JaredOwen]

Yeah for #TeamTrees!!!! Thanks for another good video😁

[@anas8183]

Thank u

[@javierbaca5300]

Did you know phytoplankton is responsable for most of the oxygen in the world. Their population grows best on paths of whales. So criminalizing with scary fines and enforcing whale fishing will do a lot. It would be interesting if we found a way to make phytoplankton on ships and get them dispersed around the sea. Kind of a catalytic converter for a car, but with the ships leftovers maybe. I wouldn’t doubt that corals also die from whales changing their routes, since I used to have 35 corals on a tank and my house was out of electricity 2 or 3 for up to 18 hours a few times in a few years. My tank was a real small one so temperature changes fast, The water reached the death level temperature several times, but no coral ever died. My tank was also ultra small for what it had in it. My fish died from over salination as a heat wave evaporated a inch or 3 out of the tank because I live in a desert, but my corals actually reproduced, I multiplied my population of corals. Never replenished the fish as I knew they would die, so it was a coral tank with no fish that supposedly make it helthier. I feed them 1/3 of what the reef man told me but 3 times a week instead of once a week, They grew fast. I also read that this also feed most of the lower chain, which feeds what we eat from the sea. Also most medicines now come from corals and they only use a bunch full. Wouldn’t surprise me pharmaceutics killing them, but hopefully its just lack of phytoplankton since it has decreased in population, as the whale population has decreased and evaded human routes. I mean dont get me wrong I love trees, and we have nut trees for a living. Been planting since my grandfather, but I cant help but notice the importance of such a small living thing.

[@akiltn6698]

​@@javierbaca5300thanks

[@siddharthnair7030]

Amazing content presented in a great way

[@harshvatwani2202]

Really appreciate the effort put in. Big thumbs up 👍

[@SouravTechLabs]

I have a weird question. See, we plant trees and that takes more than a decade for a tree to absorb tonnes of CO2. So, Why can't we just photosynthesise in labs 10x faster and store them somewhere?

[@BranchEducation]

That's a great question! I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that the issue deals with scale. Building a lab to perform the photosynthesis of 10,000 trees would cost $$$$$, but just planting 10,000 trees would cost $$.

[@Aaron-hh8nx]

@@BranchEducation ooh

[@wayneeligur7586]

@@BranchEducation CO2 emissions are the lowest in many thousands of years steadily going down. The optimal level for plants is 1000 PPM The extinction level is 150 PPM. The green new deal is not based in science and your graph [shown [ @ 00:32] is very deceptive. A suggestion: redo this video with accurate research and see Patric Moore''s lectures. I'd like to know where you got the statistics for this video? you should reference your sources as any well done, presentation does !

[@TheDiner50]

@@wayneeligur7586 Hardly is that is true. The emissions we say we produce is lower then they actually are. Diesel gate or any number of examples show that companies and people lie about emissions. It is reported false or the emissions happens off site. (electric cars burning coal) Any of the vehicles I interact with are all emission cheating. Tuned to save on fuel and longevity of the machine. Lorries tuned to make more power cheaper at expense of emissions. Since tax on fuel and this forced emissions stuff cost companies and the working people to much money. Big industries that can create clean energy sell it off and buy cheap fossil energy. Really unless the consumers are going to pay more and really demand change from companies to not cheats, lies and the making of money for the 1%. Well, there is no reason to care about any of this. They make stuff up to look good. Government politics and culture need all a reset. All are full of corruption. But for that to happen soon we are talking about killing and hole world cause as on the streets heads rolls and good people is going to die in the cross fire. And the ones in power can shut off our communications and sensor us. :) #TeamTrees is a scam too. Burn wood and the emission collected turn back into the air. You need to stop taking the stuff from the ground. You can not burn fossil fuel and claim planting tress make you neutral. You do not do anything good before removing fossil energy. Agen why claims of emissions are bullshit. We are better now but far from being fucking honest. Scams and lies. Corruption. You need to plant trees and rely on that energy. And not cheat or lie about where you get the energy. Swedish by the way. Love to cheat emissions as they are scams and just corruption. I make sure to not be wasteful and make vehicle last longer and such. I rather think about airports heating there buildings with diesel to keep the big windows towards the run way. And how much diesel go into flying and how they cheat taxing that fuel. Never flying. Never wasting nature more then I need to. The culture of us all need to change and turn back to farm age.

[@wayneeligur7586]

@@Kuumin perhaps, start with patric moore? then find more info? don't rely on just one person, or places like this deceptive channel..

[@obuyWw]

amazing! thank you for the knowledge

[@MrBoredom]

Team tree - We will plant 1 per every 1 dollar donated. Our goal is to plant 1 million trees! Current goal - 21 million dollars donated. Team tree - (nervous) 👍

[@Scafatiello]

NICE video... good explanation

[@nirajkarki3922]

Wow very clearly defined

[@nickolas.h]

Great and very informative video. Thanks #plantmoretrees 👍🏻💚🌲🌳

[@sophiejulien8402]

very good video !

[@guccitarot2305]

I just saw this in person today, view my channel for the video. I thought someone threw out a cigarette by the tree, and upon looking closer the tree was blowing out warm air , in the morning cold. Amazing ❤️🌲

[@bharathypa7679]

Superb ,and also be posted a video about electromagnetic waves please!

[@alexdenilak8508]

hi, what kind of tool do u use to make a video for you tube

[@RichardVobes]

So trees need co2. We better make more of it then!

[@CiroSantilli]

Ahhh, I was expecting some insanely amazing protein structures to show here like in HarvardX :-(

[@robertwolfiii8711]

Thanks for forest inventory

[@slabs379]

Wish I could donate :( I litterally can't give money to anything outside of iran

[@chrisheijstek9178]

Have you tried a VPN?

[@slabs379]

I can't get money to any PayPal or any accounts I make, I'm already using a VPN for connecting to youtube

[@slabs379]

I can still help by actually planting trees my self, giving money is not the only way of helping the planet

[@spacemans4060]

slabs 37 it’s alright, you don’t have to donate. It’s understandable that not everyone can.

[@kelvinsurname7051]

You can use the webpage.

[@oisiaa]

Plant BILLIONS of trees. Every country on earth should get on board.

[@Decorboys]

Please make video on solar panels 🙏🙏

[@averyboccella2390]

I'm sorry, but what exactly happens when the tree dies? does the co2 go into the ground, or does it go back into the atmosphere as it rots?

[@PacknVac]

The tree uses the C02 already harvested to grow. So essentially the C02 once in the air is now wood.

[@pilotavery]

@@PacknVac it becomes food for animals who eat carbon.

[@rods6405]

The tree either rots, eaten by bacteria or other critters(termites) and the CO2 one way or another goes back into the atmosphere plus heat is generated! Or It goes into (my) fireplace and keeps me warm during winter! So heat plus C02 into atmosphere Or We use it for furniture or building stuff and as long as we keep using the stuff and not trash it the CO2 and the heat are stored!

[@There-Is-No-Virus]

Sorry but this is WHAT a tree does, not HOW it does it. Maybe we do not fully understand the process?

[@thatcoconut2642]

EXACTLY

[@supreetb6453]

Yea.

[@xlbbman]

I'm confused of your use of how. The video show that the carbon is stored in the tree as glucose. How is this not explaining how trees extract co2 from the atmosphere? Is the question more specific?

[@boghinovel]

@@xlbbman he kinda haves a point descriptions on what stuff do is not an explication on how stuff kinda works it should kinda tell how exactly the co2 is extracted and how dose the process actually work as in this case in short terms if i remember correctly light kinda smashes the co2 molecule as an fission process like nuclear reactor kinda and then to kinda learn how fission works and then the big picture will be more clear kinda

[@mckinleygreer4980]

But he clearly said through photosynthesis 😑

[@idfalnhouse]

Nice

[@PravdaSeed]

🌻 thanks 🌻 💚🌍💚🌍💚

[@Life_42]

I love trees!

[@hui20kumar21]

Hey Alec, Make a Video on Why Tides happen?

[@BranchEducation]

Who is Alec? Also there are a lot of KZbin videos on this already.

[@hui20kumar21]

@@BranchEducation Your name is What? There are a lot on this but nobody explains like you do? Give me your contact number please?

[@BranchEducation]

@@hui20kumar21 check our about page. details are there.

[@hui20kumar21]

@@BranchEducation I don't want email.

[@ophello]

Finally living up to your name.

[@EditWavesProductions69]

We have studied that trees inhale oxygen and exhale CO2 at night. How does that work ?

[@ailefy9898]

I wish he was my science teacher

[@khaldoonsaid4184]

Would you allow us to add subtitles in our languages?

[@anandsuralkar2947]

Why is it so low poly just use shade smooth filter if u make those in blender

[@jayjoe1818]

Walkable Cities and bikeable cities also have big help not car dependent cities 🙂

[@notmyname69642]

we luvv environment!!!!!

[@finaruliviu7701]

another 4 trees 🌲🌲🌲🌲

[@jagaprathi3334]

Hi bro

[@ananyasakhre8408]

did u guys reach ur goal i am from 2021

[@daniellewilson8527]

I thought this was going to go into the Kreisler cycle, RubisCO, how UV light plays a role in redox reactions in the chloroplast…this was comparatively lacking in info. It disappointed me that you didn’t go deeper into the how.😢

[@lucasqwert1]

It's not as detailed as I wanted it to be. But for a 3 minutes video it's ok.

[@melb5996]

An interesting approach to nature. The marvellous everyday tree comes to save the planet by getting rid of that ‘nasty’ CO2. Another way to look at it is this amazing CO2 is proving tones of food for our wonderful trees and plants?

[@AI4Productivity]

In Pakistan, we plant about 7 trees for 1$. Govt has done a billion tree plantation and another campaign is being observed now.

[@zaviq6076]

This makes me think cutting down trees could actually be beneficial to the environment as long as you plant more. Or do grown trees consume more CO2 then growing ones?

[@kalatiolatai7098]

I'm not too sure but you're asking the same question that I've puzzled by for years. Now this is only my logical answer and not actual fact, But I'm sure fast and tall growing trees help the environment much more than slow and short trees. To further help you understand my view; a whole acre of bamboo will do more for the environment than a whole acre of Bonsai trees. Simply because Bamboo grows about a foot a day, and Bonsai trees grow about a foot a century. But this is just a thought, in my opinion this makes sense

[@halfpipefreak]

Every forest needs mother trees, meaning large old trees. Sending information via the rootsystem and mycelium fungal connection. Without older trees the forest is weaker and more suseptible to disease and all other types of infestation. The mother trees can actually give other trees nutrience when they need it to survive. Also a forest without any huge trees is plain boring right.

[@TheTonyMcD]

Look, I'm all for planting trees, but let's not pretend here. Planting trees has many benefits. Logging has devastated natural environments and the habitats of many endangered species. Planting more trees will provide more habitat for a more diverse and healthier ecosystem. I have no problem with, and very much encourage people to plant trees. BUT, planting trees will not do a damn thing at all to combat climate change. Even planting 20 million, even if you planted 20 million every single day, even if you covered the entire surface of the planet with rain forest, none of it will make any significant impact on the amount of carbon that we have and continue to pump into the atmosphere.

[@theredranger9723]

So cars help make more oxygen and feed trees? Electric cars can do that too right?

[@DannyCuyto]

Will trees grow bigger today with more CO2 in the air?

[@tyfyh622]

no why would they? Do people grow taller if they have more food around them?

[@rods6405]

@@tyfyh622 Yes they will numb nuts. People grow fatter trees will grow fatter FFs

[@jesussaves5468]

I learned in school that what we breathe out, the trees breathe in what we breathe out, I guess that school was wrong!

[@KiranNokia]

Good one! Trees do produce CO2 in the night I heard somewhere, is that harmful or help the Global Warming in any way?

[@tyfyh622]

Imagine if you as a human, had a job planting trees (or making an O2 factory), will your existence be harmful or help the Global Warming - since you consume 02.

[@gauriblomeyer1835]

How many trees can be planted in the little desert Sahara and how many billions of t CO2 would disappear every year ?

[@Arun.k592]

Nice make more videos on base of cpu

[@BranchEducation]

Thanks! Yeah, more of my upcoming videos will be on CPUs.

[@whtlyg7377]

Intelligent design. more evidence that proves there is a Creator who made the heavens and the earth. Thank you!

[@blackopal3138]

20 million trees to reduce carbon is like trying to feed the world with a single rice plant. But, maybe all we need to do is funnel the carbon from the upper atmosphere down to the oceans faster. Could we do that? lol

[@saivarunk9262]

So invisibly, trees and nature around us is battling with the destruction we all are making everyday in name of development!

[@darvingrosario9235]

Dora iliouu wya?

[@aeebeecee3737]

team tree: 21,333.753 $

[@Virgoslovemore]

who else is here after hearing about the 100 mil from daddy musk? :3

[@theredranger9723]

It’s like God knew we would have cars one day and designed trees to recycle the air… Hmmm

[@pushing2throttles]

Plant millions of trees...2 problems. 1.) That will help with about 5% of climate change. 2.) Be careful of biodiversity.

[@COVIDisA_HOAX]

BAN ELECTRIC CARS NOW....STOP STARVING TREES OF CARBON

[@X-mass]

Yes, but in dark trees takes O² and gives CO²

[@086himavelaga3]

It is not really true, trees also need to respire, do they release Co2 in the morning also, but night there is no photosynthesis going on at night more percentage of CO2 is released into air

[@rods6405]

Yes but they store more CO2 than they emit! So they are a carbon store!

[@ptasptasznick9305]

Great, but one key factor is missing. Each tree after dying will decompose and give back it's carbon content. That is why trees only store CO2 for prolonged period of time and don't reduce CO2 content when you look at them in bulk. You would need to cut down such tree and then bury it so deep and air-tight so CO2 can't find way back to atmosphere...

[@slavicstriz8715]

There is new research sowing that climate change got worse during the lock downs .. because less car making co2 .. that co2 was need to help remove methane out of the atmosphere. Methane is a lot worse of a green house gas. So that interesting 🤔

[@ragnorockcookie2868]

But you are missing a important peace. Trees make the air humid and they also make it possible for there to be rain

[@NMIBUBBLE]

Piece?

[@iskabin]

That's not true. Trees need water to grow, they net negative in humidity, meaning they take more water than they release. Trees don't make rains, rains makes trees.

[@ragnorockcookie2868]

@@iskabin it's actually kind of a combination of the two. If it wasn't for trees we would never have rain further along the main land. They're more like a way for rain to extend itself further towards eria that would never see rain if it wasn't for trees. That's why America is becoming more dryer. But a lot of rain clouds can't extend them selves further into the land

[@iskabin]

@@ragnorockcookie2868 Why is that? How could they extend the rain when they are taking water for themselves?

[@ragnorockcookie2868]

@@iskabin did you three things absorb store and release water, they also nurish the ground for other fana of plants to grow. When it's dry they release the humidity and create clouds that will travel further in land allowing for plants that are further from the sea to grow absorb and release again the water. That the cycle of rain

[@vishal33377]

Hi American brother

[@dannyg.4421]

You dont sound american at all lmao

[@vishal33377]

@@dannyg.4421 what you say

[@BranchEducation]

Wait- I don't sound American? What do I sound like then?

[@vishal33377]

@@BranchEducation I don't understand what you say

[@dannyg.4421]

Sorry I was making a joke to mast ocean because he kinda sounded Soviet or something in comment. I never heard some one say american brother before

[@kadec100]

go directly to the midle of the video to get the answer

[@dimaisatree]

I still don’t really understand it. Why is it so confusing???

[@adenosinetp10]

wish our body gets Carbon from air instead of eating other organisms...

[@dogecoinx3093]

I think watering grass is more effective at growing carbon from CO2

[@ketogenicdietrecipes4162]

Did you completed this mission?

[@Aaron-hh8nx]

You a scientist?

[@valeriosserasidis428]

Maaaaaasive tree, KEeeeeey wth with that? Once i heard it, it's difficult to concentrate and listen to the meaning of the video

[@mykchann1750]

but like the trees team trees plant are way too simple, it is actually bad for the food chain, creating dead forest with one species of trees but no animals in it, it is a really good idea to plant trees but they should make the trees planted more diverse

[@justinernest2363]

They did not actually explain how the co2 is absorbed from the atmosphere 🙄

[@rods6405]

Through the Stomata look it up FFS!

[@Roman-qs7md]

How about lobby the government to pay carbon credits to trees already standing

[@Roman-qs7md]

To people who own land with trees

[@rods6405]

@@Roman-qs7md thats me

[@Omardeeb-]

The point of the video to is show how it happens. The video never show how...

[@gacharose1738]

Trees breathe co2 exhale oxygen. 5 trees per person.

[@murillopaiano6144]

It was not enought explanation

[@DerRoteBaron3]

This video does not answer the question. It does not explain the photosynthesis in detail

[@iskabin]

So, the more CO2 we put in the atmosphere, the better for the trees! Want a greener planet? Go take a ride in a v8, yay!!

[@Rebecca-xt2wi]

Bro

[@bradplaysgames782]

E

[@kareemmj]

100m prize

[@husseinmahdi4282]

shhhh..don't tell anyone about that

[@Bysilverr]

haha same

[@bismillahkazimi5565]

So complicated 😂🤣🤣

[@atomknife9106]

Who's here to win the Elon competition?

[@Peter14523]

The science lies. We need more co2. DINOSAURS VERY HAPPY WITH a lot more than what we have today. PATRICT MOORE OF AUSTRALIA WROTE A VERY INTERESTING BOOK . .- NOT SKY AT NIGHT. GUY.

[@metal0n0v]

Reduce carbon dioxide? Are you trying to kill trees?

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[@sub2laddi853]

Cool… And first

[@BranchEducation]

First to the first.

[@tyfyh622]

say it to rusia and china

[@AristotleFreeman]

The donation help the people who founded a worthless company to get money from subjects. A truth I tell you for free. TRI Tra Tralala Have a nice Tri Ter Tee...

[@dynamicresistance]

The starlink vid was amazing, this one however.. why are we afraid of 400ppm? plants would THRIVE at 2000, when the ice melts the earth has defense mechanisms and will cause another ice age to compensate. Versus water vapor co2 is nothing as far as contribution to temp, and most of these temp changes people are propagating are simply nighttime temps arent getting as low, which throws the average. In all probability any large events will be caused by the SUN and polar field migration or LLSVP release. Not to say that we shouldn't be better, planting more trees and stopping rainforest devastation, slowing our demand on meat so they stop over farming cattle would be some fixes, not carbon credits and taxation which is the goal of any political party speaking about climate change. The green agendas facts are wrong and that makes everyone look silly when speaking to their talking points. I would love to see this video redone with as much detail as the starlink one getting down and dirty into the science of photosynthesis! Much love to TeamTrees! johnenglander.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CO2%20550my%20Extinction%20Chart%20from%20Ward.jpg