KCUR Newflash: Trees Killing Earth?!?

Not really.

Sorry, we know that social media demands that we "trust the science" but this report seems kinda sketchy and like something that a good Kansas wildfire could dispense with quickly. 

Here's the data which seems to argue that voting against lady candidates or driving the wrong kind of car is what really sparks impending skyfall . . . Check-it:

"New research clarifies that deploying trees against global warming backfires in parts of the U.S. and Canada, including much of the Great Plains.

"Trees darken the ground. So a place that otherwise would reflect more sunlight and send some of its heat straight back into outer space instead soaks up that heat. In some regions, this outweighs the trees’ potential carbon storage."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Trees are spreading across the Great Plains. They're actually making climate change worse

We normally think of trees as being good for the environment. But in parts of the Midwest and Great Plains, they're heating up the earth as woodlands take over grasslands.