[Windguy]

I believe the planet is dealing with two evils, not one. We have to consider the evaporation rain cycle as one problem and the greenhouse effect as the other problem. What then happens is both multiplies together, instead of just adding together to create this monster of an effect that has made climate change so noticeable of late.

Of what Wowbagger has stated the heat in the atmosphere isn't really a problem for most plant life. But adding the oceans heat and the excessive CO2 and you do get a toxic mix to plants. That's because plants won't survive a change in rain conditions. There is small problems concerning temperature alone such as frostbite and burning (you mainly see this on extremely hot summer months where grass turns black).

In theory it is also possibly provable to show deforestation can cause the oceans to heat up as higher humidity levels will slow evaporation over the planet and therefore it is like a marathon runner that stops sweating, he'll heat up inside. The only real proof of that though is to see if there has been a marked reduction in the overall rainfall right across the planet.

So both can be proven to be the cause of the heating of this planet, and ever since La Nina has been around, it shows how much deforestation does affect the planet. So if we go on a massive replanting drive we could help offset and slow down AGW enough so we can stick to the normal reduction targets without drastic actions beyond that.

Here is a basic graph of what I believe is happening, not based upon any scientific data though, yet. All I am trying to show by it is the more trees and the colder the ocean the lower the humidity and more chance of rain you get. Obviously a dry day doesn't rain, but will help speed up the evaporation rain cycle. You can see the differences, but over the entire planet trees probably make up 10 to 20 percent and the ocean makes up to 70%. So those averages won't be anywhere near as noticeable except for the speed of the evaporation rain cycle, which the rainfall drop has been blamed purely from AGW. It also shows how North Queensland doesn't get that much hotter than NSW around summer time as the monsoonal season has less humidity around the hottest times of the day.