Waterloo's Christmas Tree Lab is trying to save a long-standing tradition from climate change

CBC News Canada ^ | December 6, 2025 | By James Chaarani

[ClearCase_guy]

Move to the Yukon. Or is that too balmy?

[coloradan]

The very first sentence is climate doom fear propaganda psyops. It assumes facts not in evidence, and it would have been possible to write the article without mentioning climate change.

[Larry Lucido]

Wait. Don’t trees eat CO2?

[BenLurkin]

[iamgalt]

What a load of BS. CBC -trash

[Steven Tyler]

They are elites from the University of Waterloo. Your discernment is too strong for them

[JimRed]

...some of these farms are impacted by major climate events, everything from extreme heat and drought to what she describes as “erratic freeze-thaw cycles...

And it's been everything from temperate to ice covered over the last few million years. Man up and adapt to it!

[UnwashedPeasant]

It is probably illegal in Canada to teach kids the basic science that carbon dioxide is what trees eat.

[JimRed]

Wait. Don’t trees eat CO2?

And release oxygen?

[PeterPrinciple]

The very first sentence is climate doom fear propaganda psyops.

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Evidently not all climate scare funding has been cut off.

[PeterPrinciple]

“It kind of sounds strange, right? How can you have drought and flood and erratic freeze and thaw cycles, but because we just have such a biodiverse region from Windsor to Ottawa Valley, to up north and northern Ontario, we actually are in one growing season seeing all of these different types of events,” Leonard explains.

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they used to be called seasons.....................

[bert]

That was pre WEXIT Canada.

The western provinces are in the act of becoming new nations or perhaps American territories or states. They were in Washington this week solidifying plans

[PeterPrinciple]

For an artificial Christmas tree to have the same carbon footprint as a real one, it would need to be used for more than 20 years, according to the David Suzuki Foundation.

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Well, there may be a nugget of truth.

[econjack]

...what used to take a Christmas tree seven to 10 years to grow now takes eight to 12...

Of course, there's no other explanation other than climate change. The fact that these tree farms have been sucking nutrients out of the same soil for decades couldn't possibly have any effect on the tree's rate of growth.

[aquila48]

“Christmas trees farms across Ontario haven’t been spared by the devastating impacts of climate change”

The only devastating impact is in their stupid heads!

[chajin]

I thought a Christmas Tree Lab was a new kind of holiday dog

[redangus]

Don’t Christmas type trees, i.e., pines, firs and spruce grow everywhere from NC and TN to New England, MI, WI and MN? And that’s just in the eastern part of the country, they also grow in Northern CA, Or, and WA. Quite a variety of micro-climates. Why is this little piece of Canada being hit so hard? And is it even being hit so hard? They said the growth period ‘jumped’ from 7-10 years to 8-12. Not a huge difference.

[aquila48]

“Climate has had such an impact that Leonard says what used to take a Christmas tree seven to 10 years to grow now takes eight to 12 “

What pile of dung! Higher CO2 makes trees go faster.

[bray]

Where is the proof the earth is warming.