Is there anything that doesn't scare them?
Posted on 01/09/2008 5:53:10 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
Flat, scrubby, too wet to walk on but too dry to fish, Minnesota's vast peatlands have long been regarded as good for almost nothing, including sightseeing.
But now, in an age of climate change, the bogs are the target of a security alert.
Experts fear that a warmer climate will speed the decomposition of peatland vegetation, which has been slowly decaying for 4,000 years. Carbon is naturally released as a byproduct of that decomposition, and the addition of an untold amount would cause the climate to warm even faster than it already is.
"Northern peatlands are the wild card in global warming," said Eville Gorham, a retired University of Minnesota Regents' professor of ecology who has studied peatlands around the world.
The Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group will include peatland protection and restoration measures among the several dozen recommendations for blunting climate change that it will forward to Gov. Tim Pawlenty on Feb. 1. The strategies include raising the water table in peat country, preventing drainage, restoring areas that have been drained and urging that "best management practices" for other lands also apply to peatlands.
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Run for your lives!!!!
We’re goners.....
You really know it’s over when peat bogs are the ticking time bomb that will end the world. I wonder if Hallmark has a card for this...
A good coat of spar varnish will help keep the carbon in!
Better just pave them over to keep that nasty CO2 locked up.
Ireland harvests it and burns it in home fireplaces.
I know its a real global warming catastrophe when the peat bogs catch on fire but I never thought they would decay faster and cause out of control global warming. This decay smells like someone wants some grant money. I will put this one beside the Global Warming Cow flatulence cause.
I think you’ve nailed it.
Yep.
The peat your talking about is a little more consistant to being cut into bricks so they can be used for fire.
The bogs up north are really nothing but an overgrown lake that has died many moons ago and grew over. I would bet that a good many mob hit has been hid under those bogs. All you got to do is chop a hole in the top and shove whatever you want to get rid of under and the peat would close up over the it.
I know of a bog that has a D8 cat in it. They were trying to get a pipeline across and the dozer was the tie for the dragline that was used to lower the pipe into the trench. The Dozer broke thru and after it was over they sounded the thing and found out it was down 89 feet. Its still there if anyone cares to try and get it out.
I believe this might prove the graphs that illustrate the increase in carbon actually follows the heating process verses being the causative factor. Of course when your job as an environmental reporter depends on ‘Chicken Little’ news, we will just ignore these little discrepancies.
~~Anthropogenic Global Warming ™ ping~~
Is there anything that doesn't scare them?
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Coalfields of the future!
Right; in about a half billion years!
Airlift some quikrete ready mix and spread using crop dusters...then let it get hard!
Robbing Peat to pay Al.
OMG! What about the falling sky? What about the Big Bad Wolf? These things get put to the back burner while we mess around with this Global Warming(TM) fairy tale!
I think it might be staffers for the Big Bad Wolf who are behind these Global Warming(TM) rumors.
Now we know who is causing global warming...MINNESOTA !!!!
They are sooo full of hate ‘up there’, we should’a known.
:)
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