@breadandcircuses

Just cycling beside a woodlot after being out in open farmland one gets a reprieve of 3-4 degrees.

Every bush and tree is natural solar-powered a/c at work.

And for those curious, that temperature drop is quite real—and far less from the shade provided than from that vegetation drawing down solar energy and storing it in hydrocarbon form.

Imagine a large tree burning top to bottom - that’s the heat energy captured and stored in a single one of them.