Posted on 02/03/2010 8:38:13 AM PST by Upstate NY Guy
ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2010) — Speed is not a word typically associated with trees; they can take centuries to grow. However, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found evidence that forests in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the past 225 years. The study offers a rare look at how an ecosystem is responding to climate change...
Sean McMahon discovered that, on average, the forest is growing an additional 2 tons per acre annually. That is the equivalent of a tree with a diameter of 2 feet sprouting up over a year.
Forests and their soils store the majority of the Earth's terrestrial carbon stock. Small changes in their growth rate can have significant ramifications in weather patterns, nutrient cycles, climate change and biodiversity. Exactly how these systems will be affected remains to be studied.
Parker and McMahon's paper focuses on the drivers of the accelerated tree growth. The chief culprit appears to be climate change, more specifically, the rising levels of atmospheric CO2, higher temperatures and longer growing seasons...
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Kilmer was soooo non-PC. Today he would have to say “only mother earth goddess Gia” can make a tree.
I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK.
I sleep all night and I work all day....
Free market industrialized societies lead to increased prosperity and a healthier natural environment.
“Let my poplars go!” Treebeard T. Ent
“Dominion” and “stewardship” are mandates from God.
NOT gardening the earth and letting it be natural is an affront to this mandate,
but as in all things, leftists turn God’s Will upside down.
Fact:
New Hampshire in 1860 was 80% cleared for farminland.
Today NH is 80+ % forested.
There are woods all around here that have old stone walls running right through the middle of them. These woods were formerly corn fields, pastures and orchards. My property was an orchard/pasture field up until 1972. Now it is yard and woods.
You are EggsAckley right.
No, the ACID rain killed all the lakes.
We were told in the 1970’s that there would never be fish in some lakes in the Adirondacks EVER AGAIN.
Of course, the same people told us that we were going into another ice age in 1977/1978.
As famous aviator and engineer Dick Rutan says:
“CO2 is not a pollutant, it is plant food”
The "no real problem" will surely mandate more grant money for these damn scientists who live off the grants.
“Does this mean the CO2 is being gobbled up and trees are producing too much oxygen?”
That’s exact;y what it means.
The “science” of man-made global warming never got the facts right, about how much CO2 is, and can be re-absorbed in the biological environment, and extracted from the atmosphere in that regard.
With that error they have greatly overstated how much “additional” CO2 remains, will remain the atmosphere - in the “greenhouse”.
The obvious answer to this affront to socialist diatribe is to cut down the trees so they don’t derive any benefit from excess CO2.
As opposed to an upstate NY guy?
You would enjoy reading carry_okie’s book “Shemitta”. Check it out.
Since the first Surveyor satellite was launched in 1968, satellite surveys have consistently logged small year-to-year increases in the portion of the earth that is covered by forests.
This fact has been known for some years. But, somehow, it has never become part of the conversation on "climate change".
Me thinks the reply was meant for post #1
You watch Ax Men on History Channel?..................
Already got it.......great book. Smart guy. We’re both in the same locale.
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