How Do Trees Extract CO2?

How exactly do trees extract CO2 from the atmosphere? And in general, how do they fight climate change?

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Table of Contents:
0:22 Graph of Temperature Anomaly vs CO2 in atmosphere vs Fossil Fuels
1:05 Structure of Cellulose in trees
1:43 How do trees extract CO2
2:48 Let's plant 20,000,000 Trees! Support the Arbor Day Foundation

Made by Teddy Tablante

Background Understanding:
Molecules

Animation built using Blender 2.79b
Post with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects
Sound editing with Reaper

Work Cited:
 Wikipedia contributors. "Cellulose." "Wood." "Photosynthesis."  Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, Visited September, 2019

science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6448/76

Data of CO2 ppm
www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/graph.html

Data of Temperature Anomaly for each year
climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/

Data of Fossil Fuels Burnt
ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels

Global Tree Restoration Potential
science.sciencemag.org/content/365/6448/76

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