This is extremely obvious and it's surprising how long it took for this to be noticed. If you clear a section of a forest, the area becomes as hot as a desert because of the lack of shade. This is a "microclimate". The more area you clear, the larger this hot microclimate becomes. This is the reason why there is desertification all over the globe.
Whether you believe it or not, it is just as easy to create a desert from a forest as it is to do the reverse [1], it can even be a passive process [2]. Deserts rain occasionally, and when they do, it becomes a flash flood. If you tame the flash flood [3][5], you can change deserts. There are projects that do this and have proven its effectiveness, while also being able to solve the water crisis in arid lands in Africa [6].
Trees are incredibly important not necessarily for their reduction of carbon dioxide, but because of the microclimate each tree creates. They filter harsh light for the undergrowth, they cool the general area, and they transpire around 99% of the water they get, leading to more clouds and then more precipitation in other areas [4].
The reason why projects like this aren't so popular and aren't subsidized is not because they aren't effective, but because it is hard to make money from actually saving the environment.
[1] https://youtu.be/3RqsUD6fyGk
[2]https://youtu.be/ZSPkcpGmflE
[3] https://youtu.be/zqKaRg3GTqg
[4] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/trees-amazon-make-th...
[5] https://youtu.be/_4oKKs8FfI0
[6] https://thewaterproject.org/sand-dams
Whether you believe it or not, it is just as easy to create a desert from a forest as it is to do the reverse [1], it can even be a passive process [2]. Deserts rain occasionally, and when they do, it becomes a flash flood. If you tame the flash flood [3][5], you can change deserts. There are projects that do this and have proven its effectiveness, while also being able to solve the water crisis in arid lands in Africa [6].
Trees are incredibly important not necessarily for their reduction of carbon dioxide, but because of the microclimate each tree creates. They filter harsh light for the undergrowth, they cool the general area, and they transpire around 99% of the water they get, leading to more clouds and then more precipitation in other areas [4].
The reason why projects like this aren't so popular and aren't subsidized is not because they aren't effective, but because it is hard to make money from actually saving the environment.
[1] https://youtu.be/3RqsUD6fyGk [2]https://youtu.be/ZSPkcpGmflE [3] https://youtu.be/zqKaRg3GTqg [4] https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/trees-amazon-make-th... [5] https://youtu.be/_4oKKs8FfI0 [6] https://thewaterproject.org/sand-dams