Super Bowl Plants Trees, Saves the World

Everybody wants to get in the world-saving act regarding global warming. The French shut off the lights at the Eiffel Tower (for five minutes), and the Super Bowl is planting trees to offset it's CO2 production:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's red mangrove trees versus greenhouse gases at the Super Bowl in Miami on Sunday.

The National Football League is hoping to tackle the game's heat-trapping gas emissions by planting 3,000 mangroves and other trees native to Florida, but the plan could be more of an incomplete pass than a touchdown when it comes to global warming, experts said.

"It's probably a nice thing to do, but planting trees is not a quantitative solution to the real problem," said Ken Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution at Stanford University.

The NFL began planting the trees in August and will finish in May. This year's Super Bowl features the Chicago Bears against the Indianapolis Colts.

The NFL claims the trees planted in Miami, and at the last two Super Bowls, make the games "carbon neutral" because the trees will eventually absorb carbon dioxide (CO2), the main greenhouse gas, emitted at the events.

And the B.S. included in Friday's UN report can be used to fertilize the trees. It's a win-win!