And in Washington House, Republicans pushing the US to
reduce more fossil fuels have a plan to counter the
effects of climate change and that's planting a trillion trees
. Well, the proposal marks a shift for the
party most associated with climate change denial. A 2019
study that a trillion trees would suck up all of
the heat trapping carbon dioxide that humans have expelled into
the atmosphere over the past 25 years. The study's
authors clarified however, that their plan does not cancel
out the urgent need to reduce fossil fuel emissions.