Posted on 07/21/2011 8:51:15 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 07/21/2011 8:52:53 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined Monday that whitebark pine, a tree found atop mountains across the American West, faces an "imminent" risk of extinction because of factors including climate change.
The decision is significant because it marks the first time the federal government has identified climate change as one of the driving factors for why a broad-ranging tree species could disappear. The Canadian government has declared whitebark pine to be endangered throughout its entire range; a recent study found that 80 percent of whitebark pine forests in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem are dead or dying.
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Just one of a group of econut orgs that will only be haPPy when a green flag flies over every capitol in this land.
They could care less about trees or people..
Oh yeah, like anyone believes anyone in the “federal government”.
Climate change, my smelly Obama.
You can always expect the phrase “imminent risk of extinction” in every global wa...I mean, “climate change” story.
Where’s the “not this s&*t again” guy?
Was sitting in the doctors office yesterday and NPR was playing. They had someone on discussing this. Apparently there is a lack of some breed if beetle.
This is how they deduced that it is climate change.
My question to them would be, “if it is climate change, how to you propose to fix it?”
My classic response to this claptrap is to look a bit happily surprise and say:
Isn’t that great? We get to see evolution in action!
They don’t know what to do with it. Trust me!
My classic response to this claptrap is to look a bit happily surprise and say:
Isn’t that great? We get to see evolution in action!
They don’t know what to do with it. Trust me!
My classic response to this claptrap is to look a bit happily surprised and say:
Isn’t that great? We get to see evolution in action!
They don’t know what to do with it. Trust me!
My classic response to this claptrap is to look a bit happily surprised and say:
Isn’t that great? We get to see evolution in action!
They don’t know what to do with it. Trust me!
HICCUPS! SORRY.
LOL.. Yup. It’s all about attitude..
LOok at all the Change we’re part of and witnessing?
makes the Industrial evolution look,, cough,, dirty.. grimy.. 8-]
Be Stihl, My heart..
I thought trees added to the carbon imprint—chop ‘em down.
99.9% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I hear they didn’t fair too well during the last Ice Age either.
I thought it was acid rain, oh wait.
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