Vegetation Effect

Temperature is one of the three major influences on global patterns of plant growth. The Earth’s surface land temperatures are represented on a scale between –25 degrees C and 45 degrees C with the darkest regions the coldest and the lightest the hottest. Along with available sunlight and water, temperature determines whether the land will support dense forests, grassland, or nearly barren desert. Conversely, plants influence how hot the surface of the land can become. In areas where vegetation is dense, the land surface temperature never rises above 35 degrees C. The hottest land surface temperatures on Earth are in plant-free desert landscapes where the dark regions are the most verdant and the light regions, corresponding to the deserts are the lightest.

Land surface temperature is a measurement of how hot the land is to the touch. It differs from air temperature because land heats and cools more quickly than air. Hot land does however heat the atmosphere and thus contributes to global warming.

It is an objective of the current invention to convert desert landscapes to dense vegetation and thereby moderate the heating effect of these deserts on the atmosphere, which in turn will reduce global warming.