Ugh!! Is this satire? I mean autumn is usually what happens here and is normal! Sept.-Nov. Leave turn brown and go dormant...if it was a real 'die-off' adult trees etc. wouldn't return in the spring....
alarmist
BWAAAAHAHAHA! This site is better than the Onion ever thought of being.
Are you sure this isn't a satire?
"Besides, how else would you explain the fact that the die-off does not occur in tropical locations, where heating oil use is virtually unheard of?"
And the seasons there aren't summer-fall-winter-spring, but dry and wet?
I think our leg is being pulled, and we're so used to outrageousness, that we missed it.
Just in case you are being serious here is the sites disclaimer:
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This website is a spoof.
I agree---the evidence is mounting that NASA is full of idiots. No wonder they can't get the Shuttle fixed, or successfully do the calculations necessary to get a satellite to Mars.
Cheez--vegetation naturally starts to go dormant as the weather turns drier and warmer in mid to late summer. My lawn here in Washington is doing exactly the same thing.
Is this really from some satirical source, like The Onion?
The skeptic says the "die-off" is a result of cold temperatures, and the counter-argument is that the die-off doesn't happen in the tropics? Did I get that right? Is there some hidden logic in that counter-argument, something I failed to see?
"While there have been anecdotal reports for many years of this die-off phenomenon, those reports have been restricted to local regions. We have, for the first time, documented the global scale of the event, which covers much of the Northern Hemisphere during the months of September and October"
Comments from Dr. nhoward14 (not an actual doctor):
This event has historically been referred to as "fall" or "autumn" and was previously assumed to be related to the shortening of time of available sunlight and lower air temperatures leading foliage to enter a so-called dormant state.
Thanks to the availability of this new satellite imagery, we can prove that the actual cause is the burning of fossil fuels which typically increases during this time of year.
Some have argued that this phenomenon has been going on for centuries and long before heating oil consumption became popular among humans. I counter this argument by saying that pre-historic males, i.e. pre-1960's, were full of hot air and would repeatedly use the hot air to subjugate women and minorities. That hot air formed the original "greenhouse" which is, of course, being exacerbated by the burning of fossil fuels today.
[extreme sarcasm off]
Is there someplace we can get a look at those memos?
LOL. "I think the NASA scientists should investigate the possibility that this die-off is directly related to decreasing levels of sunlight and the resulting cold temperatures as winter approachers". Cute satire.
I was buying the article up to the last paragraph. It certainly sounds real though.
Folks, this is satire. I love it. It reflects the actual state of global warmining "science". Very funny. BTTT.
This may be connected with that white organic coating that occurs in the region each winter. More studies are called for
This is just more proof of Bush's incompetence; if John Kerry (who, by the way, won the war in Vietnam)then I'm sure this never would have happened. Just ask him.
Oh wow, had me going for a while. Very well done parody!
<< The relatively rapid change in vegetation characteristics was observed from late summer through the fall, when the multi-million dollar NASA instrument recorded a distinct change in vegetation color from green to various shades of yellow, brown, orange, and red. >>
Sure sounds like a pretty fall was had by all!
Especially by the public-trough-snorting NASA hoggs as they madly scrambled about in their ceaseless attempt to rationalize and justify that boondoggle agency's status as having squandered more than any other organization in all of recorded history, of the confiscated wealth of the world's most innovative, creative, productive and industrious men (IE: Americans) -- in the achievement of Absolutely Nothing!
(Why, next thing you know they'll all be on TV leaping about like kindergarteners at the site of some of their actually-functioning contractors, at the cost of only Twenty Billion or so, having landed a dinky toy on Mars!)