Posted on 04/22/2008 12:19:43 PM PDT by grundle
Scientists used to believe the oldest trees on the planet were in North America with ages in the 5,000-year range.
Hooey, for a new discovery in Sweden has completely debunked this consensus, resulting in a total rewrite of climate history while bringing into serious question global warming theories espoused by Nobel Laureate Al Gore and his sycophant devotees.
Think green media members will be falling over themselves to report this new finding?
While you ponder, consider the evidence supplied by the British Telegraph Thursday (emphasis added): Story Continues Below Ad ↓
The world's oldest tree has been found in Sweden, a tenacious spruce that first took root just after the end of the last ice age, more than 9,500 years ago.
The tree has rewritten the history of the climate in the region, revealing that it was much warmer at that time and the ice had disappeared earlier than thought. [...]
It had been thought that this region was still in the grip of the ice age but the tree shows it was much warmer, even than today, [Prof Leif Kullman at Umeå University] says.
“Spruces are the species that can best give us insight about climate change,” he says.
The summers 9,500 years ago were warmer than today, though there has been a rapid recent rise as a result of climate change that means modern climate is rapidly catching up.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
It looks like Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree
The part of the tree above ground dies off periodically but the roots survive. So it’s the part below ground, not above, that’s survived all this time.
Hard to see that this proves anything one way or another.
What really is annoying, is that facts and truth are nowhere to be found in the dominant media.
Just sent that to a couple enviro-wacky friends I have. They are really clueless when it comes to this stuff. They think if you don’t believe in global warming it means you’re for oil in your rivers and smog all over the air.
Stories like these will never see the light of day.
If trees are as scarce in Sweden as the photo implies, it’s a miracle it wasn’t chopped down a couple thousand years ago.
It looks like it would make a really sad looking IKEA coffee table.
Bill, haven't we seen this somewhere already?
The earth contains its own historical recorders. Sediment deposits, ice cores, tree rings, etc, in order for charlatans like Gore and his Global Warming/Socialist Cult to be refuted.
Thank God.
Look as good you will not when 9500 years you reach.
Egad.
YEC INTREP
also known as the "Little Spirit Cedar"
They have a pic and info on their main page but I can't get there from here
I’m being suspicious as with Piltdown Man——maybe they’ll find a fake cricket bat buried around there close by——where’s the rest of the forest? And do the Swede lumberjacks know about this weed yet?
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