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Latest Global Warming Scare Theory: Climate Change Is
"Killing Trees"
Global Warming is killing trees according to some scientists.
The solution? Cut them down of course
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Trees, which thrive on CO2, are now being killed off by global
warming, according to a a new study published Thursday in the
journal Science.
“If current trends continue, forests will
become sparser over time,” co-author Philip van Mantgem,
an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, said in a press
conference call.
"This would be a setback in the fight against
global warming because thinner forests with small, young trees
store less carbon, so more heat-trapping carbon dioxide would
cycle into the atmosphere."
So lets get this straight. There are less trees
because the climate is warmer. And the climate is warmer because
of increased CO2 emissions from human activity. Trees thrive
on CO2, but that doesn't seem to matter anymore, it is now apparently
killing them.
Though he agrees that Western ecosystems are changing
due to climatic shifts, Michael Goulden, an ecologist at the
University of California, points out that the study was fundamentally
flawed to begin with.
“The authors’ argument is based on rejecting the
alternatives and showing that warming was correlated with increased
mortality,” he said. “The direct evidence that warming
caused the change, or even that the observed warming was sufficiently
large to have caused the mortality change, is not there.”
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Indeed, previous
studies have shown that plants and trees will actually
grow more rapidly with higher levels of CO2.
During seven years of exposure to carbon dioxide concentrations
1½ times higher than today's, test plots of loblolly
pines have indeed boosted their annual growth rates by between
10 and 25 percent, found the researchers.
Scientists in Europe and the United States have also concluded
that old growth forests store
more carbon dioxide than they release. They are
not carbon neutral, as previously believed.
It is estimated that estimated that 1.3 billion metric tons
of carbon are absorbed by old growth forests annually.
Trees are not only carbon-sinks, they also pull water out of
the ground and release it into the air, creating low
clouds that promote cooling.
However, all these facts have not stopped climate change alarmists
from suggesting that in order to save the planet we also need
to rip out its lungs by cutting down old growth forests.
Since trees absorb carbon dioxide - that evil
gas that we breathe - but then begin to give it off as they
age, why not just cut down all the trees and turn the planet
into one big landfill? That's effectively what atmospheric scientist
Ning Zeng recently told
New Scientist magazine, urging
the process of "thinning forests and burying
"excess wood" in a manner in which its didn't decay
could sequester enough carbon to offset all of our fossil-fuel
emissions."
"Over its lifetime, a tree shifts from being
a vacuum cleaner for atmospheric carbon to an emitter. A tree
absorbs roughly 1,500 pounds of CO2 in its first 55 years. After
that, its growth slows, and it takes in less carbon. Left untouched,
it ultimately rots or burns and all that CO2 gets released,"
reports
Wired Magazine.
Oh the horror! More trees, plants and crops growing
and feeding the world due to increased levels of CO2 in the
atmosphere! We can't have that can we!
The solution: "Clear the oldest trees and
then take out dead trunks and branches to prevent fires; landfill
the scrap."
And you can trust the government and global corporations
to re-plant fresh trees and not use the land to build a new
multiplex cinema or a shopping arcade. Seriously, just trust
them.
Wait a minute, I thought humans were responsible
for CO2 emissions? No - now trees are evil and we must get rid
of them. Obviously God got it wrong.
Global warming is a
phenomenon that has not been observed since 1998
and will
probably not be observed for the next 10 years,
according to scientists who are being forced to respond to evidence
of global cooling, but who assure us the
deadly menace of man-made climate change will return.
Al Gore and his sycophants are proposing that
to fight a non-existent problem, we must effectively poison
and rape the earth in order to help save the earth.
In light of this contradiction, it's necessary
to question who are the real environmental threats to the planet?
People driving SUV's that emit the natural, life giving gas,
the very thing we exhale, and the food that trees and plants
crave, CO2 - or the folks that want to rip out the world's most
precious and ancient woodland forests?
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