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Posted on 12/06/2025 6:26:46 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Christmas trees farms across Ontario haven’t been spared by the devastating impacts of climate change, but a lab out of the University of Waterloo (UW) is pushing to curb the effects.
UW’s Christmas Tree Lab, founded in 2022, collaborates with Christmas tree farms across the province in their research to foster a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly industry in the face of climate change, while offering education and advocacy materials.
The lab’s director, Kelsey Leonard, said yields at 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.”
There are over 400 Christmas tree farms in Ontario, more than any other province in Canada, Leonard says. The trees they produce have much less of an impact on the environment than fake ones.
“It’s a climate-friendly choice,” Leonard says. “When we think about an artificial tree, they’re made from byproducts of fossil fuels, they’re often shipped long distances.”
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.
And Leonard says that this isn’t happening.
“They’re unfortunately becoming a fast fad fashion,” she explains. “People are turning out their artificial trees every two to three years.”
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 — something that Joe Wareham with Chickadee Christmas Trees in Puslinch, Ont., has found on their farm.
“It’s taking longer now though with the hot, dry summers,” Wareham explains.
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Move to the Yukon. Or is that too balmy?
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.
Wait. Don’t trees eat CO2?
What a load of BS. CBC -trash
They are elites from the University of Waterloo. Your discernment is too strong for them
And it's been everything from temperate to ice covered over the last few million years. Man up and adapt to it!
It is probably illegal in Canada to teach kids the basic science that carbon dioxide is what trees eat.
And release oxygen?
The very first sentence is climate doom fear propaganda psyops.
“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.
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
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.
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.
“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!
I thought a Christmas Tree Lab was a new kind of holiday dog
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.
“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.
Where is the proof the earth is warming.
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