Human choices drive climate changes

The Morning Sentinel ^ | May 5, 2012 | by David F. Robinson

[Oldeconomybuyer]

FARMINGTON -- Maine is going to look a lot different in 100 years if climate change trends continue on the same upward trajectory.

Moose may all but disappear from the forests, replaced by migrations of white-tail deer.

The forests themselves will probably be taken over by trees found today as far south as Maryland, rather than the red spruce that make Maine's woods unique.

Even black-capped chickadees, the state bird, may start to head farther north for cooler climes.

These are just a few of the potential changes in store for Maine according to many scientists, who have been predicting what will happen in various parts of the world over the next century if global warming doesn't slow down.

The drastic differences in global warming's effects will ultimately hinge on human's choices to reduce their impact on the otherwise natural climate change cycles, Barton told the audience.

"We still have choices to make," he said.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They think that the only reason people don’t believe in AGW is they haven’t told the lie enough yet.

[pepsionice]

In a hundred years...because of global warming...Mainers will start speaking with a southern accent. They also will walk around with their underwear on backwards. And I believe that most Mainer women will be wearing tube-tops all year-round.

[basil]

Maine is going to look a lot different in 100 years

Maine (and everywhere else) looked quite differently 100 yrs ago, too...... Climate comes and goes. I don't believe man can do much, if anything to change that.

[Sacajaweau]

Many things have changed since I was a kid. In the city we had big old chestnut and Elm trees with oriole nests all over the place. The big trees grew and grew and the roots were whacking the sidewalks and getting into the sewers. The Elm trees became diseased.

The orioles, the red winged blackbird and the cardinals don't hang there anymore...but the damn pigeons are still around along with the tree rats aka squirrels.

[bigbob]

Let’s see, how do I proper comment on this...

Is it: “BS!”
or “B.S.”
or “B******t!”

[kosciusko51]

To all those that believe man is adversely affecting the planet, you know it is already to late to change things. However, I have a modest proposal for you to improve the situation:

• Stop having kids
• Stop using energy of every form
• Stop eating plants, since plants remove CO2 from the air
• Stop eating animals that eat plants
• Stop eating animals that eat animals that eat plants
• Stop producing CO2

If you do these things, you will improve the environment and stop harassing the rest of us, making the world better for all.

[tet68]

Chances are equally good that in 100 years
Maine will be covered in an Ice sheet 50 feet
thick, all the great skiing will be in Georgia
and people will be going to northern Florida
to watch the leaves turn.

[ClearCase_guy]

if climate change trends continue on the same upward trajectory

There is no upward trajectory. I stopped there.

[spawn44]

And all the little squirrels and birds will be gone forever. Lisp, Lisp. And the little flowers will all dry up and blooww away. And the big big trees will all fall down and go boom. The only thing thats going to happen in the next 100 years is this SOCIALIST MORON is going to be buried 6 ft under and nobody will have to listen to his SOCIALIST DEMOCRAT HALLUCINATIONS about the AGW/IPCC CO2 scam anymore.

[kosciusko51]

to late to == too late to

[Flycatcher]

You're a better man than I.

I stopped at the title.

[doyle]

Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane: articles like this were all the rage about 25 years ago. “The Morning Sentinel” is asleep at the wheel.

[upchuck]

Maine is going to look a lot different in 100 years if climate change trends continue on the same upward trajectory.

What upward trajectory is that? Seems I read the temp has been pretty stable for the last 100 years.

[Venturer]

We have to start killing every Human Being on the planet to save Maines tree’s.

In a hundred years Maine will still have Republican Senators voting with Democrats.

My heart bleeds for Maine.-——not

[Baynative]

"We still have choices to make," he said."

How about choosing not to buy into the hype and hysteria while Al Gore gets rich off his scam and laughs at all of you on his way to the bank?

[TexasFreeper2009]

we have about as much affect on the climate as the Inca's with all their sacrificing.

That is to say... none.

[Baynative]

"They think that the only reason people don’t believe in AGW is they haven’t told the lie enough yet."

Ask your average high schooler who has been taught this garbage for 8 or 10 years what they think of global warming and they'll tell you it is the absolute truth.

[az_gila]

You really have to strecth things for the QGW croud... from the NOAA web site -

HERE IS A LIST OF THE WARMEST TEMPERATURES EVER RECORDED IN CONCORD NEW HAMPSHIRE...

RANK TEMPERATURE DATE
1 102 DEGREES JULY 4, 1911
2 102 DEGREES JULY 3, 1965
3 101 DEGREES JULY 3, 1911
4 101 DEGREES JULY 5, 1911
5 101 DEGREES JULY 10, 1911
6 101 DEGREES JUNE 4, 1919
7 101 DEGREES AUGUST 2, 1975
8 101 DEGREES JULY 20, 1977
9 101 DEGREES JULY 21, 1977
10 101 DEGREES JULY 14, 1995 (LAST TIME TO REACH
100 UNTIL THIS YEAR)
11 100 DEGREES 9 TIMES INCLUDING JULY 22, 2011

and

HERE IS A LIST OF THE BIGGEST SNOWSTORMS IN CONCORD NEW HAMPSHIRE SINCE SNOWFALL RECORDS BEGAN IN 1868...

RANK SNOWFALL DATE
1 27.5 INCHES MARCH 11-13, 1888
2 22.5 INCHES DECEMBER 6-7, 2003
3 22.2 INCHES OCTOBER 29-30, 2011
4 20.0 INCHES JANUARY 25-26, 1888
5 19.0 INCHES JANUARY 6-7, 1944
6 18.3 INCHES JANUARY 12, 2011
18.3 INCHES APRIL 12-13, 1933
8 18.1 INCHES MARCH 5-6, 2001
9 18.0 INCHES JANUARY 1-2, 1869
10 17.8 INCHES DECEMBER 3-4, 1901

Climate changes, even before evil SUVs were invented...:^)

[Right Wing Assault]

Lib solution? Take away choices!

Except abortion, of course.