Pine trees may help create smog, acid rain (The trees are killing us!)

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) ^ | 3/13/2003 | Danny Kingsley

[FatherOfLiberty]

What a conundrum for the environazis! Do we protect the trees, or are they killing us???

[FatherOfLiberty]

No more Christmas trees, Lib. They're killing us.

[error99]

Do you know what makes the "Blue Ridge" mountains blue?
Do you know why they call them the "Smokey" Mountains?
It is from the haze created by the emissions from the trees.

[tutstar]

I can tell you they drop massive amounts of yellow pollen all over everthing and we all end up sick. Guess we're allergic to pine trees. Wouldn't mind getting rid of them myself, they can also become missiles in hurricane force winds. But God has a purpose for them, at least they keep the doctors in business.

[CurlyDave]

I always knew we were in a fight to the death with trees.

The chain saw is your friend.

[sweetliberty]

Gee, maybe that's why they're trying to do away with Christmas.

[dalereed]

There was a government report in the 70s on this.

Pine trees put more hydrocarbons in the air than automobiles!

The report was quashed but I saw a copy of it that a Congressman had.

[Red Dog #1]

I’ve already emailed this to my tree-hugging brother. I asked if committing tree genocide would be justifiable as self-defense in this case.

[noutopia]

Pine trees are very very bad,no one needs this very very bad tree. :}

[edwin hubble]

Actually,
This came up during Reagan's years.

He said in a speech that trees contribute to certain unwanted emissions. (His staff had done some research.)

He was ridiculed in the press. (naturally).
But he was right in certain respects.

[FatherOfLiberty]

Pine trees put more hydrocarbons in the air than automobiles!

I wish I could put my finger on the study, but I recall a report about the Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines in the early 1990s saying that it dumped more nitrous oxides and hydrocarbons into the atmosphere than decades worth of industrial emissions.

[FatherOfLiberty]

Make sure your brother reads post 5 - "The chain saw is your friend." - LOL

[WFTR]

First, they'll establish a "waiting period" before I can plant another tree in my yard. Then they'll say that I can have one pine tree but not two. Then they'll say that I can have one until it reaches twelve feet in height. I say that I'll keep planting them until they pry my cold dead fingers off my shovel.

By the way, does this apply to blue junipers?

WFTR
Bill

[FatherOfLiberty]

I can tell you they drop massive amounts of yellow pollen all over everthing and we all end up sick. Guess we're allergic to pine trees.

I'm an avid woodworker, and I can tell you there are some nasty problems that can be caused by expose to certain chemicals in wood. Chemicals in wood have been found to cause or contribute to nausea and headaches, kidney and liver malfunction, skin rashes and eye irritation, asthma, emphysema, and other respiratory problems, nasal cancer.

[sweetliberty]

"The chain saw is your friend."

I liked that one too.

[NordP]

Okay, because I grew up living nearly half my life next to pine trees in Minnesota, I guess my move to California was to allow me to experience the "clean atmosphere" of the Palm tree!

Gee, I just thought I was moving some place warm. What do you know!

(/deeply breathing in that clean CA air --- cough, cough)

[error99]

I was told once that wood dust had all of the clinical properties
to be classified as a carcinogen but politics forbade doing so.

[lonestar]

My cars are covered with the pollen now and it will be a lot worse before it gets better.

[FatherOfLiberty]

I wish politics played a bigger role in OTHER chemicals NOT being classified as carcinogens.

[Rasputin_TheMadMonk]

The conifers are coming! The conifers are coming!

I always knew nature was trying to kill us! Time to start stripmining!

/sarcasm - as if you had to ask.