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 also looks like it would do wonders for my compost pile.
9500 years old my foot. It doesn’t look a day over 9400.
Thanks, Lucy.
You’re welcome.
yah,conifers even in minnesoota are deceiving..I grew up a little inland fron there and when a seed takes root on a granite outcrop they are really neet trees,kinda banzi type of things...and a natural soft conifer tree like that is as hard as oak,tight rings
~ That's a delightful comment! thanks!
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