How does the destruction of the Rain forest affect Global Warming?
As others have said, trees absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, so fewer trees means less carbon dioxide is absorbed. There is actually a (extremely controversial) theory that claims that climate change is caused entirely by deforestation, and that if the earth had the degree of forest cover it had in the past we would not be experiencing climate change at all because trees regulate their growth partly based on CO2 levels and would be able to absorb excess CO2 produced by human activities by changing their growth patterns. Going back into the realm of proven science, however, rain forest destruction also affects global warming because trees don’t destroy CO2, they store it. They are technically carbon neutral over their lifetimes: when a tree dies, the CO2 is released back into the atmosphere by burning or rotting. In a wild forest, the carbon released by dying trees is relatively insignificant. Large forest fires are rare in wild forests (especially rain forests!) and when a sing
