Posted on 10/13/2019 5:52:40 AM PDT by rktman
“400 and some parts per MILLION in our atmosphere, so your .04 is still too high!”
0.04% = 400 ppm
I noticed Matt drove his car out to the “ghost forest”.
Try walking next time Matty...
Surely he bought some carbon credits out of serious guilt right?
TIME = Those Idiots Memories Erased
https://parks.state.wa.us/1113/Ginkgo-Petrified-Forest
Are “Ghost” forests new?
What about “Ghost” reefs?
The reef as we know it today is built on the backs and bones of many millions of years of coral as the ocean levels have changed, islands have formed and land has settled.
The current formation that we know and love is about 6,000 to 8,000 years old and sits on the platform of a much older reef. The formation, location and depth have changed as the continental shelf and sea level have changed and will likely continue to do as sea levels change and the earth’s crust shifts.
“...sea levels were at an all-time low. With sea levels 160 metres lower than they currently are...”
https://sailing-whitsundays.com/article/history-and-evolution-of-the-great-barrier-reef
Looking for all those guns you lost in that accident?
Right? What was I thinking?
In fact, just change the words "pesticides" to "global warming" and "birds" to "polar bears" and the BS is identically false...
You have to give communists credit... They never stop regurgitating (almost word-for-word) the strategies and plans that have worked in the past...
This crap will never stop until the vermin are completely exterminated...
Pretty stupid claims made in that article. Around here ghost forests are a common side effect of weather trends. Im not anywhere close to being one of the senior members of this board but there are many places that Ive seen areas where whole forests have grown and been drowned out in the same spot more than once.
Theres a large bay near here. There were no islands in it when I was a kid. Do you remember when the Great Lakes dried up “due to global warming” and we all died? During that time a couple of sand bar tips rose up, maybe a foot or so, and became tiny islands with trees and all. When water levels began to rise “due to climate change” the islands held together pretty well with all those trees stitching them together. Then the cormorants and pelicans returned after having been gone for decades. They crapped such a thick layer on to everything out there that everything died and the lake swallowed them pretty quick but dont fear cuz Super Ecoman is here. He used his superpowers to sign a bill to make the taxpayers dump riprap not just around those submerged “islands” but all long the sandbars leading out to the submerged “islands”.
Its a con and a lucrative one if played on those with short memories.
I stand corrected!
Or sit...whatever.
The long term direction of hurricane frequency has been dramatically lower. Between 1915 and 1965 there were 19 major hurricanes. Over the next 51 years, 1966-2016, there were just 7.
The first period is before the 20th century warming began. This is what you call an “inconvenient truth.”
The Ministry of Truth, Winston’s place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.
Just imagine how horrible it would be if we still rode horseback and each of us had several head of cattle, over the last century.
I can insert a reality anecdote into the thread.
Back in about ‘96 I visited a News Group concernd with Bromeliad culture. A graduate student came on and asked if someone would help finding the northern most point for the existence of Spanish Moss, Tillandsia usenoides.
That seemed like a worthy project. I had recently searched the Nc Outer Banks and found the plant growing in the wooded area behond the big sand dunes.
The internet and e mail were new and easy. I looked on the map for all federal installations up the coast north of the North Carolina line. I knew the plant existed pretty much up to the Virginia line.
In research, I learned that Spanish Moss ws known to exist on the Del Marva penninsula just south of the area now wxperiencing Ghost Trees. I received mail from the federal installations including The Black Water area. The reports from the installation enviromental officers were negative but enthuiastic in participation in the endeavor.
Just south, a report came in from First Landing State Park in Virginia at the southern coast of the Chesepeke at Cape Henry. The park reported massive growth of the plant that extended nearly to the bay. They claimed to be the likely most northern point for the growth of Spanish Moss, Tillandsia usenoides.
I got a collection permit from Virginia and visited the park to make the specimen collection. All were very willing to be part of the effort. One third of the specimen collected was submitted to the Smithsonian permanent collection. Other portions of the sample were submitted to DNA analysis.
Now, the point of all this is that climate change including cooling and who knows what else killed off Spanish Moss in the wet lands of the southern DelMarVa penninsula. There is none there but a few miles south across the mouth of the Chesapeake bay it thrives.
Now the point of all this. Spanish Moss has been determined perhaps the most successful plant species in existence. It grows uninterrupted from First Landing in Virginia all the way south to southern Argentina.
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