Posted on 03/15/2020 8:55:29 AM PDT by rktman
London’s leafy streets and gardens have long been prized for their beauty — and more recently their ability to counteract carbon emissions and improve air quality. But the value of urban trees can also be measured with money. A new report from Britain’s Office of National Statistics estimates tree cover saved the capital more than 5 billion pounds ($6.56 billion) from 2014 to 2018 through air cooling alone. Additionally, by keeping summer temperatures bearable for workers, trees prevented productivity losses of almost 11 billion pounds.
The estimates underline just how vital the role trees play is in making cities comfortable and functional in a warming world — particularly in London. An unusually long, hot summer in 2018 pushed cost savings estimates to their highest level to date.
Part of the study’s purpose is to promote planting trees and maintaining green spaces, according to Hazel Trenbirth, a member of the ONS' Natural Capital team, which looks at cost savings of greenery across the U.K.
“Britain’s trees have a value that goes far beyond what you can get from chopping them down,” she said.
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The Chinese have already stolen this IP from the Brits and are planting trees of their own!! Just blatant theft of Intellectual Property. What will the World Trade Organization do about this???
Some people think that everybody who came before them knew nothing and they know everything.
Does the really important information come later? That is, all those tree will reduce Mother Earth’s temperature by 0.0000001 degrees one hundred years from now.
Who in their right mind would even THINK of the cost/benefit and ROI of TREE???
In air cooling? Do they mean air conditioning? Because there isn’t much need for air conditioning in Great Britain... ever?
And solar arrays. Don’t forget clearing forests for solar arrays.
Oh yeah there is. I’ve been there wishing for some good old fashioned ‘Murican AC before.
Here’s my aside...
One thing I love about the Dollywood theme park at the base of the Smokies is that there are a ton of trees and flowers around.
If you’re hot, grab a bench under a tree. Better yet, grab one near the guy doing his amazing sculptures out of sand.
Kudos to the developers of the park for not knocking down everything in site.
June 70° / 56°
July 74° / 59°
August 73° / 59°
People in places like Savannah, GA or Dallas, TX would be freezing under these summer time temperatures.
WHAT! I hadn’t considered that part. LOL!
Yeah, the averages are nice but due to grrrrreta and her ilk it sometimes falls outside those numbers. And it ain’t pretty. :-)
When your city starts ripping up streets to plant trees and add bike lanes, be sure to point out that it’s blatant cultural appropriation!
I am old enough to remember when most towns in America were full of trees.
Few towns had medians except for in front of government buildings. The trees go next to the roads not on them, and bicyclists were expected to learn hand signals and yield to cars and pedestrians.
You’re imagining your fears rather than a return to the sanity which prevailed before the late sixties.
The U.K. has a humidity problem that proper air conditioning helps keep outside, where it belongs. Sadly, apart from some newer office buildings, high-end retail shops and fancy hotels, few locations there do A/C as God and Willis Carrier intended.
Of course, the French are right across the Channel, making the Brits look like titans of indoor climate control.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. What happens to all that carbon when the trees die? If those trees in London were the only trees on the planet, there would be nothing to worry about but there must be millions if not billions of trees on earth.
That’s rather out of date. A/C is now pretty much standard in new public buildings, offices, theatres, stores etc. It’s only in private housing that it’s still relatively uncommon.
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