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Gee, amazing. The natural enviroment has no problem dealing with variables in the atmosphere.
1 posted on 02/03/2010 8:38:15 AM PST by Upstate NY Guy
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Does this mean the CO2 is being gobbled up and trees are producing too much oxygen?

Oh, the horror..........

2 posted on 02/03/2010 8:40:04 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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Massive frauds do not apply to trees -— you cannot TAX THEM !!!!


3 posted on 02/03/2010 8:40:41 AM PST by EagleUSA
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Quick, let’s fork over billions to the UN for a further study on how this affects developing nations. Let’s start with a new 10 year 400 billion euro case study. We’ll get back to you in 2020.


4 posted on 02/03/2010 8:41:55 AM PST by poobear
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Joyce Kilmer. 1886–1918

Trees

I THINK that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth’s flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day, 5
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain. 10

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.


5 posted on 02/03/2010 8:42:52 AM PST by Red Badger (Education makes people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.)
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Meaning all is working as it should. The designer of this planet knew what he was doing.


6 posted on 02/03/2010 8:42:54 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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It could not possibly be due to the fact the human beings are around to put out forest fires and develop pesticides or anything like that. Scientists would consider such things in their hypotheses, being, you know, scientists and all.
7 posted on 02/03/2010 8:43:15 AM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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Headline Correction:

Forests Are Growing Faster, Ecologists Discover; Climate Change Carbon Dioxide increase Appears to Be Driving Acc'd Growth

8 posted on 02/03/2010 8:45:13 AM PST by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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This is pathetic. In my high school biology course back in the 50s we learned about the CO2-O2 cycle, with animals needing oxygen and plants needing carbon dioxide. This is, we were taught, a self-balancing cycle, since if it tilts one way or the other it encourages more animals or plants, bringing it back into balance. Much of the work, of course, is done by small animals and plants—bacteria, insects, plankton, and the like, that can grow pretty quickly.

I always thought that a good counter-charge to make against these whacko greenies is that by decreasing CO2 they are killing the rain forests. Which, in fact, they are doing, with their biofuel idiocies.


9 posted on 02/03/2010 8:45:25 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Carbon dioxide is plant food? Who knew?

Don't tell the smart scientist types, but the vast majority of life on Earth is in the ocean, and the vast majority of that is microscopic.
11 posted on 02/03/2010 8:49:35 AM PST by Question Liberal Authority ("My...health care plan is a Bolshevik plot... which will destroy America." - Barack Obama)
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Lately I have been reading and researching the Civil War and have been looking at many of the surviving photographs of that time. What was striking to me was how barren the landscapes seemed. Since many trees were cleared for farms, building materials, and firewood, there was a lot more open landscape than you see today. Somehow the forests reclaimed the land without the help of the Sierra Club. Seems like the environmentalists should thank the coal industry for decreasing America's dependence on domestic firewood.
13 posted on 02/03/2010 8:59:49 AM PST by Never on my watch (Liberalism has NEVER made anything better)
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Oh my! What will the consequences of too much oxygen be? Ahhhh, the horror of it all!!!


14 posted on 02/03/2010 9:05:58 AM PST by marvlus
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How can this be I thought acid rain killed all the trees in the east years ago.


15 posted on 02/03/2010 9:06:32 AM PST by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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My 30-acre redwood forest has grown much faster and healthier since we did selective thinning ten years ago.

That’s the whole point of selective timber harvests.

My idiot brother has about 50 acres of untouched redwoods that look awful. They are crowding each other so much that a lot are dying. Being a tree hugger, he refuses to maintain that forest.

Stupid is as stupid does.


19 posted on 02/03/2010 9:11:13 AM PST by EggsAckley
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Back when true science was still taught in schools I learned that CO2 is vital for plants and that plants will thrive in CO2 rich atmospheres. Futuristic space missions were always depicted as using algae or some form of plants to purify the air in the space craft and recycle the CO2 into food.

It stands to reason that any increases in CO2 would stimulate plant growth. By putting out forest fires and practicing reforestation there are actually more tress in many areas than there were 100 years ago ...hence a use for even more CO2. This notion that CO2 is a deadly pollutant in our atmosphere and is driving climate change is pure bunk

20 posted on 02/03/2010 9:14:13 AM PST by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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“Let my poplars go!” Treebeard T. Ent


24 posted on 02/03/2010 9:19:12 AM PST by tumblindice
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As famous aviator and engineer Dick Rutan says:

“CO2 is not a pollutant, it is plant food”


29 posted on 02/03/2010 9:24:26 AM PST by Andy from Chapel Hill
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Gee, amazing. The natural enviroment has no problem dealing with variables in the atmosphere.

Since the first Surveyor satellite was launched in 1968, satellite surveys have consistently logged small year-to-year increases in the portion of the earth that is covered by forests.

This fact has been known for some years. But, somehow, it has never become part of the conversation on "climate change".

35 posted on 02/03/2010 9:59:26 AM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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Most plants are c02 starved. Some plants have a secondary pathway for photosynthesis but it takes more energy to capture the c02. At one time florists pumped co2 into green houses to stimulate growth.
39 posted on 02/03/2010 10:10:44 AM PST by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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Don’t forget, the trees that the paper and lumber industry cut down are replaced by “better” (genetically) trees and the forests are better-managed to promote growth. Bottom line, our forests in the USA are not only healthier than they were when the USA started, there are actually MORE forests. People have been brainwashed that they must “save a tree” ... came from the same crowd that thought banning DDT would “save the earth.” ( How many times can these people be “wrong” and still be “believable”???) As for the trees, if you depend on trees for your living, you don’t cut them down and move on, you replant, replace and take damned good care of them in the process.(Example keeping undergrowth thinned, resulting in less fires, hence more healthy trees). The result is a better, more productive forest ... more growth for the treas and for your tree-growing profits! The MONEY makes the environment better!!! Amazing isn’t it? :-)


42 posted on 02/03/2010 10:25:38 AM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (http://www.thepatriotsflag.com - The Patriot's Flag)
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I notice that they jumped on “it’s the CO2” bandwagon immediately. The fact that the sun’s radiant output increased until about 2002 had nothing to do with it.


44 posted on 02/03/2010 10:37:00 AM PST by lafroste
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