Posted on 08/01/2017 7:44:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
They're called "ghost forests" — dead trees along vast swaths of coastline invaded by rising seas, something scientists call one of the most visible markers of climate change.
The process has occurred naturally for thousands of years, but it has accelerated in recent decades as polar ice melts and raises sea levels, scientists say, pushing salt water farther inland and killing trees in what used to be thriving freshwater plains.
Efforts are underway worldwide to determine exactly how quickly the creation of ghost forests is increasing. But scientists agree the startling sight of dead trees in once-healthy areas is an easy-to-grasp example of the consequences of climate change.
"I think ghost forests are the most obvious indicator of climate change anywhere on the Eastern coast of the U.S.," said Matthew Kirwanker, a professor at Virginia Institute of Marine Science who is studying ghost forests in his state and Maryland. "It was dry, usable land 50 years ago; now it's marshes with dead stumps and dead trees."
It is happening around the world, but researchers say new ghost forests are particularly apparent in North America, with hundreds of thousands of acres of salt-killed trees stretching from Canada down the East Coast, around Florida and over to Texas.
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You can completely trust your governments to get the science right. Ignore stories like this one that came out yesterday. This must be FAKE NEWS.
Australia Weather Bureau Caught Tampering With Climate Numbers
They’re vital, thriving habitats in their own right.
Great point, Sal. They are SO vital that government and industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to restore the San Fran Bay salt evaporators to their original salt marsh habitat.
See, for example, South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project and South Bay Salt Pond Tidal Marsh Restoration Project which says "The project design will enhance habitat for endangered and migratory birds and improve water quality in the Bay through increased filtering of pollutants." Sounds like a good thing to me. This being an EPA document, they simply couldn't help themselves: "...and [the project] is anticipated to keep pace with sea level rise."
If salt marshes are so good that we must do that here, why, exactly, does the author hate salt marshes?
So Salt Water is a Killer! Who knew:-)
Acid rain.
In the San Francisco Bay area and in coastal areas of North Carolina land subsidence has been occuring due to pumping of groundwater. A secondary effect is that in these areas, pumping also results in sea water intrusion where salt water replaces freshwater. Coastal tree roots in salt water can not provide fresh water to the trees and they die. This is not a new phenomena; it has been recognized by hydrogeologists for decades; what’s new is that global warming is being blamed for the effect as it fits the climate change narrative pushed by the environmentalists.
It’s an exaggeration to think Quebec will be producing bananas. For the foreseeable future, continued gradual warming means Chicago will be like Nashville, and Quebec like Albany. We’re talking 1 or 2 degrees Celsius. Some might think more warmth in the northern latitudes is a good thing. The problem isn’t the direct effect of CO2 as a greenhouse gas, but the sensitivity of the earth’s climate system to that effect. Basically, does the earth’s climate system amplify the greenhouse gas effect?
As for earthquakes, according to Al Gore, glacial rebound is among the effects of climate change. The glaciers have been retreating for some time. The retreat now reveals Viking villages of that predated the Little Ice Age (i.e., during the Medieval Warm Period). To what extent AGW adds to the inevitable glacial rebound that accompanies the retreat of glaciers, I don’t know.
This is kind of like asking to what extent has human activity accelerated the erosion associated with Niagara Falls. The falls have been continually moving since the year of the flood (literally). Have we, through our activities in the region drained by the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence impacting this process? Maybe.
Need to remember those.
Pine beetle infestation?
I sure would settle for pineapples in central Minnesota! <:)
Have the boat piers and subways of NYC become inundated yet?
Lies. And more lies.
Any day now there will have to be a sudden rise in ocean levels for Algores climate model predictions to be correct.
“Global Warming - Climate Change” world biggest hoax and scam.
Just like Obama causing Global Flooding by pissing in the ocean.
That much can humans contribute.
Elaborate scam to screw off taxpayers off their money!
Earth climate and changes are dependent on Sun’s and Sunspots activity supplying 99.99% of energy. Humans can do schit about it.
Volcano eruptions can produce much more distractions to climate than all humans and SUVs farting together.
CO2 is not poison, it is “food” for plants, which in turn produce Oxygen, that we need to breathe.
STOP the scam, jail all the scammers!!!
God bless and protect Mr. Trump!
MAGA!!!!
The moon's fault.
I don’t claim any great knowledge or expertise here, but as any drinker can tell you, floating or melting ice does not make water levels rise, get a cup of ice water and see for yourself.
When they use the term “polar”’ they never distinguish between the Arctic which is floating, and the Antarctic which is not all floating that’s why it’s a continent I guess.
Point being when Texas size bergs break off and melt, no matter where they come from, they are and were “floating” all the time. They will not affect ocean levels. Second point being the two poles are distinctly different requiring clarification for discussion purposes.
Nuff said, end of rant.
Maybe these frauds should watch some videos other then Al Gores.
Seasons - What Causes the Seasons - Boring narrators......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcquRMaVSKU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLRA87TKXLM
My wife is from Monterey. By the Customs House, on the bay, is a marker showing where the Spanish explorers landed. It’s several feet inland. The water has receded, not risen.
Storms come, storms go. Even very salt-hardy trees such as Sand Oaks and Live Oaks will die due to heavy overwash from a storm surge. This writer is an idiot. We’ve got a brand new island over a mile long and growing that just emerged off of Cape Point on Hatteras Island, but that obviously can’t be allowed to interfere with his bias.
They sure used that to pretend that "acid rain" was killing the alpine evergreens atop the higher mountains here in North Carolina, for years and years. Some people still believe it, but when is the last time you heard anyone ranting about acid rain? It was BS.
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