Global carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising by 2.3 parts per million per year (NOAA). In 2017,the US emitted 5.1 billion metric tons (or 11 trillion pounds) of carbon dioxide was added to the atmosphere as a result of energy-related use (USGS). How many of your best trees would we need to plant to negate this amount of CO2 added to the atmosphere in 2017? Show your work.

a. decomposes use carbon from dead organisms as fuel for cellular respiration, returning carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.

the framers of the constitution insisted that federal judges be nominated instead of elected due to their desire to have judges above the shifting whims of the masses.

the hope, whether achieved or not, was that federal judges would only be beholden to the law and that by not having judges be elected, they would be protected if that law dictated an outcome that ran counter to popular opinion.