As for alleged red herrings you just seem sore you didn't state your initial case in better fashion.

Cupric,

Well, duh ! Of course. Three times, of course, for each of your points. Why go to extremes in order to try to prove a point ?

Massive infrastructure would be required, but eventually for massive returns, and probably forever. The sticking point in my Grand Schemes would be to persuade Aboriginal people to work on them. But the possibility will always be there.

Joe

//As Rahm Emmanuel, mayor of Chicago, said once: "Every crisis is an opportunity." It seems that global warming has been the cause of increased rainfall across northern Australia. Hence, far more possibilities for tree-planting, especially by unemployed people in remote Aboriginal communities from one side of Australia to the other, for ever.//

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY-P3D63Z18

Can't hurt to try. Still, I have my doubts that it will be a particularly effective solution to climate change.

Toni,

Of course not, it wouldn't be a 'solution', but it can't hurt to try to find ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, while our economies are elsewhere adding to it. We'll always need furniture timber, and vegetables, so why not make use of environmental changes, at the same time as we try to reduce CO2 emissions ?

Alternatively of course, we could stay sitting on our quoits and lament the evils of capitalism. Your choice :)

Joe

The professor linked to at the beginning of this thread predicted that hurricanes would become MORE frequent and MORE powerful.

He was remarkably accurate so long as we ignore the fact that they aren't becoming more frequent and that they aren't becoming more powerful. </sarc off>

UK Forestry Commission believes that planting trees will help reduce climate change and says how,

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-869ga8