McCarthy spoke while smoke from wildfires in Canada lingered in the atmosphere. When asked about his intentions to stop more fires and other tragedies brought on by climate change, the speaker offered a Republican-favored solution: Get a trillion trees to grow.
The concept has a few well-known supporters. Despite his opposition to climate science, President Donald Trump declared in 2020 that the United States would join a global project to plant a trillion trees. The chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee has proposed legislation to plant a trillion trees as "a comprehensive, practical solution to the climate issues we're facing today."
The MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative and Climate Interactive created the En-ROADS global climate model, which was used in the investigation. Additionally, it discovered that even if a trillion trees were planted, just 6% of the carbon dioxide that the world needs to stop producing by the year 2050 in order to achieve the Paris Climate Agreement's target of keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) beyond preindustrial levels would be sequestered.Planting a trillion trees is not a serious solution to the climate crisis," Jones asserted. It's too late; it's too little.