Ghost Forests Are Visceral Examples of the Advance of Climate Change

time.com ^ | 10/7/2019 | tik root

[rktman]

Whew. And I thought it was just me.😁

[piasa]

Roughly 60,000 years ago there was a ghost forest [at first they thought it was about 12,000 years but then they started more sampling and testing] ... long before there were SUVs, coal power plants, and cattle ranches. It seems there was an irregular but continual ghost forest making process over the centuries...

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The ancient cypress forest found 60 feet underwater in the Gulf of Mexico, due south of Gulf Shores, Ala., is about 60,000 years old, says a team of scientists who have studied the site.

The forest appears to be a wholly unique relic of our planet’s past, the only known site where a coastal ice age forest this old has been preserved in place, with thousands of trees still rooted in the dirt they were growing millennia ago....

https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2017/06/underwater_forest_discovered_alabama.html

[rktman]

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh! You may cause coniptions if they hear of this. Didn’t we see a list one time about some “setlements” found off shore. Anyone? Buehler?

[rktman]

Ask the whiners what was growing before the giant redwoods took over.

[bray]

Blackwater National Refuge from 1910 and before is proof of what? How about some actual proof it is happening before we destroy an economy?

[rktman]

We have to destroy the economy before we can read the report. Hmmmmm. 😳. That sounds vaguely familiar.

[jdsteel]

400 and some parts per MILLION in our atmosphere, so your .04 is still too high!

CO2 is a trace gas, a poor conductor of heat and is vital to all life on earth.

[Erik Latranyi]

Glaciers destroyed forests as they advanced.

Perfectly natural to destroy what is there so something else can replace it.

It is why extinction is natural as well....eliminating species in favor of others.

Trying to conflate natural processes with human activity is totally incorrect.

[SaxxonWoods]

The saving grace of these people is that they have become boring.

[central_va]

Ancient Forest Thaws From Melting Glacial Tomb

[fieldmarshaldj]

[hanamizu]

The high tide line by me hasn’t changed in at least 40 years.

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There is a path in southern England called the Broomway. It is a dangerous path because it is covered by high tides twice a day. Tide there comes in fast and many have been caught by it and drowned. It’s been in use for at least 600 years.

[FreedomPoster]

Because it was a college major they could make it through despite rank innumeracy?

[freeandfreezing]

No point in asking the idiots who wrote the article any questions. They are convinced that finding a group of trees that got too much water on their roots is indication of climate change. If they looked around in New Hampshire they would realize the culprit could be one of many causes - like a beaver dam, or a different drainage pattern, or more water in the marsh due to a rising water table.

Every swamp in recorded history ends up with dead trees in it as the marshy area expands.

And just because a tree stops growing or dies it doesn't mean the water around its roots is salt water. Fresh water has the same effect.

What happened to the education system in our country?

[freeandfreezing]

Oh no, dead trees in a pond! The ocean water must have gotten to Richmond NH.

[trebb]

Same here - there’s other reasons (like maybe localized erosion) that allow water to flow into areas it hasn’t been in...for at least a while. The Mississippi has changed course many times and only stays pretty much in its current banks because of the Army Corps of Engineers...having the delta change back and forth as it did in the past changed a lot of areas....bigly during the course of time going by.
Same high tide marks in Biloxi area as when I got here in ‘86.

[JJ_Folderol]

Beavers cause this too.
I guess they’re salt water beavers.

[Drawsing]

This is the same kind of logic that Lucy used when she told Linus that the falling autumn leaves were flying south for the winter.

[Vaquero]

There is a stream in the Rockies somewhere that has a narrowing that is known as ‘the toilet bowl’. During flash floods, caused by rain storms in the adjacent mountains, people caught in this feature are flushed to their deaths. It happens so quickly they don’t have time to react.

Of course this is a fresh water feature.

Has the broom way tides increased in height at all in the past few decades??

[hanamizu]

The high tide line by me hasn’t changed in at least 40 years.

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I would think if they had, the Broomway would cease being a path. Since it’s use and it’s nature has been documented for over a half millennium any change would have to be really minor.