Posted on 10/19/2014 8:47:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Research ecologist Nathan Stephenson crawled around magnificent Giant Forest, checking young giant sequoias for damage from California’s three-year drought.
Though the older sequoias have survived past climate warmups, no one knows how these natural treasures will hold up this time. Climate warming is moving faster than it has in the past, scientists say. Some researchers worry that the Sierra will lose some trees that were alive before the time of Christ. They acknowledge it’s possible the giant sequoia will not survive as a species.
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Yes, I noticed. It's warming up so fast, we are breaking all sorts of worldwide cold records.
I wear a cross made from extinct walrus tusks. So totally before the time of Christ although Jesus has always been and always will be.
That poor 4,000 year old Bristlecone Pine in the White Mountains of California.
What warming?
The earth quit warming in 1998. We are, in fact, in the beginning stages of a mini ice age.
The Earth quit warming in 1933.
The “warming” touted by the scammers in the ‘90s was simply the total absence of data from a large portion of the coldest part of the northern hemisphere, due to Russian technicians walking off their unpaid jobs.
We are not in any “ice age” nor can we be, since the waters of our oceans are nowhere near warm enough to produce one.
We are simply in the same pattern of decline that began in 1933, due to changes in the sun.
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Someone said there was no taproot on sequoia.
The sequoias are watered every day by the moisture that is driven over the sierra from the San Joaquin valley by prevailing winds.
There is scarcely a day that the giant cumulus clouds can’t be seen blowing over the central/southern sierra in the early afternoon.
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The sequoias grow in the crevices and fissures of the massive granite batholiths that form the main structure of the Sierra.
Their root systems rarely go more than 10’ deep.
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Remember, the root system can cover over an acre in size too. That’s a large area, 12-14 feet deep, to anchor the tree. But even given that, they do fall over.
They are survivors. I love it up there.
Me too. Not far from my home.
Actually, technically we are in an ice age now. We are in a interglacial period in the current ice age. The last glacial period was about 13,000 years ago. The current ice age has been going on much longer than that.
Before the current ice age it was MUCH warmer and lasted a very long time.
cllimate changes, over a 2,000 year period are miniscule, both in their severity and their duration...a 20 year drought, a 10 year cold snap...these slide off most species like water off a ducks back. There have been SERIOUS climate differences over thousands of years and they will continue. For mankind to think that they can do ANYTHING about it is the height of arrogance.
From what I have read about them it seems that their tap root is not as important as the fact that their roots intertwine with other sequoia's roots so the underground webbing they produce is what makes them strong.
No, we are not in any ice age.
We are in the waning days of the sun; its time is almost done.
The ice age was the direct result of the hot ocean that remained after the 40 days of constant world wide volcanic eruptions spoken of in Genesis.
Our oceans have cooled considerably since those days, and there will be no more ice age.
We will continue to cool though, as the sun’s radiation is diminishing.
Stick around, the fun is soon to begin. (Matthew 24 is the program that was handed out)
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