And Yet Even More Wrist-Slitting News on Climate Change

Gil Friend points us to a New Yorker ad from Architecture 2030, a group working toward green architecture, something I fully support. They rightly point out:

Home Depot is funding the planting of 300,000 trees in cities across the US to help absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions... The CO2 emissions from only one medium-sized (500 MW) coal-fired power plant, in just 10 days of operation, will negate this entire effort.

There are a mere 151 coal-fired power plants in development in the United States.

Thus, the planting of all the trees we can is completely meaningless in fighting global warming so long as we continue to demand more energy use and are happy using coal to fulfill our insatiable lust.