Global Warming - Forests - Pine Beetle Infestation

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The Climate Race
Climate change in our own backyards
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/10/27/pm-climate-race-1/

Marketplace sustainability reporters Sam Eaton and Sarah Gardner discuss the radical changes Americans are seeing to their surroundings as temperatures rise from global warming.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• global
• warming
• pine
• mountain
• beetle
• blight
• infestation
• forests
• CO2

[terminator007007]

Interesting facts:

70% of the world is covered by water, another 10% by desert-leaving 20% to the continental crust. The entire continental crust is .4 of 1% of the earth-leaving 20% x .004=

.0008 of the earth is what we actually use. (Gases composing even a fraction of this #)

Complete devastation of the entire worlds land mass as we know it would only affect .0008 of the mass of mother earth. Now ask yourself-would destroying .0008 of any object affect its temperature?

[Ralphdraw3]

Climate change is already affecting the 70% of the earth covered by water:

Due to the increase in dissolved CO2 in the oceans, the oceans are becoming more acidic. This increased acid is destroying coral reefs, among other things.

Ocean Water temperatures are rising, especially at the North Pole - affecting animal and plant in the oceans. The temperature changes in the oceans could cause a complete change in the global circulation patterns of the oceans' water.

[questioneverything8]

@TRUMPHENT Yes you are right (sarcasm) that is why the tropical areas of the earth are hardist hit by this beetle. The warmer weather there without the hard cold freezings. Our rain forests are gone to this beetle. What you say doesn't hold up, if it were true then where it doesn't freeze every year there should be no pine trees.

[Thisawareness]

Allot of the foreign invasive species recent arriving here in America we can trace back to the relocation of Western Industry that have Environmental & Human Rights laws to countries that have little to none or China which is a monster abuser of the Environment & Human Rights. China is extremely lax in inspecting their slave labor made junk that they export. Besides shipping toys filled with lead for our children or toxic drywall, China could care less if they ship invasive species here

[TRUMPHENT]

@Ralphdraw3 Be careful what you wish for. Invasive species may be the only ones that benefit from additional CO2 directly and indirectly.

I read on the official website, the Ministry of Forest and Ranges calls this the worst infestation in history. That seems to the understatement of the decade.

Trees die because beetles don't. Hard cold freezing season is now too short to destroy the beetle. More beetles in an earlier spring, longer summer kills more trees. More beetles next year.

[Ralphdraw3]

Scientist say that the pine beetle is killing the pine trees. The pine beetle is infesting much of the forests and going farther northward.

The scientists say NOTHING about the aerial spraying killing pine trees.

[QuantumLeap365]

If you're an environmentalist, that should be a real concern. There are lots of problems with our environment, Co2 just isn't one of them. The environmental movement has obviously been hijacked by the same cooperate interests that you people actually believe you are fighting against.

[QuantumLeap365]

There are many trees dieing along the coast of California and other parts the United States that scientists have linked with the aerial spraying of aluminum oxide, barium salts, and many other toxic heavy metals that are linked to cancer and other diseases.

Don't you realize the military is spraying these harmful toxins all over our skies in the name of global warming?

[Ralphdraw3]

utter BS

[robertg222]

There isn't enough CO2 yet. We need to increase the CO2 in the air to help the plants.