Posted on 09/30/2021 2:43:55 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Droughts that cause leaves to turn brown and wither before they can reach peak color. Heat waves prompting leaves to fall before autumn even arrives. Extreme weather events like hurricanes that strip trees of their leaves altogether.
For a cheery autumnal activity, leaf peeping is facing some serious threats from the era of climate change.
Leaf peeping, the practice of traveling to watch nature display its fall colors, is a beloved annual activity in many corners of the country, especially New England and New York. But recent seasons have been disrupted by weather conditions there and elsewhere, and the trend is likely to continue as the planet warms, said arborists, conservationists and ecologists.
The reason climate change can be bad for fall foliage has a bit to do with plant biology. When fall arrives, and day length and temperature drop, the chlorophyll in a leaf breaks down, and that causes it to lose its green color. The green gives way to the yellows, reds and oranges that make for dramatic autumn displays.
Achieving those peak colors is a delicate balance, and one jeopardized by changes in the environment, said Paul Schaberg, a research plant physiologist with the U.S. Forest Service based in Burlington, Vermont. Warm fall temperatures can cause leaves to remain green longer and delay the onset of what leaf peepers look for in terms of fall color, he said.
“If climate change is going to mean significant drought, that means trees are going to shut down, and many trees are just going to drop their leaves,” he said. “Severe droughts that really mean that the tree just can’t function — that doesn’t improve color.”
Climate change also poses longer-term threats that could disrupt leaf peeping.
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I think globull warming is causing my hair to gray prematurely.
Mass hysteria.
Good grief.
What horse puckey
I thought this was going to be about how we shouldn’t waste gasoline to drive around to see the fall leaves.
Is a side note, only my most liberal relatives are on about their 3rd or 4th vacations of 2021 so far... seems like they are not too worried about wasting fossil fuels.
Does this mean we are all going to die or is it just women and children?
Nonsense.
It caused my waist to expand.
I thought there might be (well there might be anything, so I collected 3 275 gallon totes of water for the garden.
In June we used a little of it.
I've been dumping the rest to get rid of it in the last couple of weeks. We live straight across from Burlington, VT as a refugee in NH.
It has been a very wet summer and a normally wet fall.
It could be the extra rain has had something to do with it.
There was a frost across the river in VT last night.
All the leaves are brown (All the leaves are brown)
And the sky is gray (And the sky is gray)
I’ve been for a walk (I’ve been for a walk)
On a climate change day (On a climate change day)
it is amusing to note the ancientents always blamed the gods being angry for droughts, fires earthquakes etc
Now the Church of Climate Change hysteria does the same thing. WE have come full circle.
When do the climate change mandates start?
We only have 9 years left!
Utter nonsense
The DNC has created global warming by allowing in tens of millions of illegals that had been living Uber low carbon lives prior to arrival
We have seasonal variations every year and two years are never the same. In Minnesota 1988 was a very dry year too then the climate returned to normal as it alays does.
The same with traffic jams.
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