butchering American forrestlands

evince said:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/01/0...oxnews/national+(Internal+-+US+Latest+-+Text)




Spread by trade and climate, bugs butcher America's forests
Published January 01, 2017 Associated Press

PETERSHAM, Mass. – *In a towering forest of centuries-old eastern hemlocks, it's easy to miss one of the tree's nemeses. No larger than a speck of pepper, the Hemlock woolly adelgid spends its life on the underside of needles sucking sap, eventually killing the tree.
The bug is one in an expanding army of insects draining the life out of forests from New England to the West Coast. Aided by global trade, a warming climate and drought-weakened trees, the invaders have become one of the greatest threats to biodiversity in the United States.
Scientists say they already are driving some tree species toward extinction and are causing billions of dollars a year in damage — and the situation is expected to worsen.
"They are one of the few things that can actually eliminate a forest tree species in pretty short order — within years," said Harvard University ecologist David Orwig as he walked past dead hemlocks scattered across the university's 5.8-square-mile research forest in Petersham.
This scourge is projected to put 63 percent of the country's forest at risk through 2027 and carries a cost of several billion dollars annually in dead tree removal, declining property values and timber industry losses, according to a peer-reviewed study this year in Ecological Applications.
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...Detroit...
 
sear said:
Good information that you won't hear on State medai. Nowadays, the Al Gorians tell you to just buy a Prius from a giant corporation.
"yes. and it's a disservice to true enviornmentalism" ... #39
... BECAUSE switching to an electric car can actually INCREASE pollution.

How?

If the "from the grid" electricity used to charge the Prius battery is generated by burning coal; it can add more atmospheric pollution (carbon, methyl-mercury, etc) than a comparable gasoline powered car.

Beware tree huggers.
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Plus battery manufacturing for those cars has a Yuge CO2 footprint.
 
This whole human-induced climate change crappola was debunked years ago. It's been a comfy money-making scheme (can you say research grants, environmental taxes, eco-friendly cars, etc.?) for Al Gore, the libs and the U.N. The propaganda has been crammed into this generation's skulls full of mush to the point where these airheads won't step on a bug for fear of upsetting the eco balance of the entire planet.

The last Ice Age was 4000 years ago. The planet's been warming ever since, waaaaay before all supposed man-made industrial pollutants entered the picture.

(Forbes in 2009).......
Three themes are emerging from the newly released emails: (1) prominent scientists central to the global warming debate are taking measures to conceal rather than disseminate underlying data and discussions; (2) these scientists view global warming as a political “cause” rather than a balanced scientific inquiry and (3) many of these scientists frankly admit to each other that much of the science is weak and dependent on deliberate manipulation of facts and data.

Regarding scientific transparency, a defining characteristic of science is the open sharing of scientific data, theories and procedures so that independent parties, and especially skeptics of a particular theory or hypothesis, can replicate and validate asserted experiments or observations. Emails between Climategate scientists, however, show a concerted effort to hide rather than disseminate underlying evidence and procedures.


(2009) http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/6748-ipcc-researchers-admit-global-warming-fraud

(2009) http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704888404574547730924988354

(2014) http://canadafreepress.com/article/relentless-global-warming-scientists-continue-their-scams

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doctordog said:
evince does not realize that most frames for houses are made out of wood, most insulation comes from paper products, as does all paper products. I am sure she is prepared to do without all of those things
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sear said:
"being anti science is being anti reality" e #29

Each culture / society has its own criterion of truth.

In religious cults it's often "god's word", as interpreted by the shaman, etc.

But yes. In the U.S., science is widely (though not universally) considered the criterion of truth.

And we must take care to exercise discretion in that regard. Science is not infallible. Newton / Einstein the obvious example.
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science is the best knowledge at the time


religion is not


fox is not

SCIENCE IS
 
"science is the best knowledge at the time
religion is not
fox is not
SCIENCE IS" #51

Enlighten up e!

Your assertion is premised on scientific standard. Believing your conclusion matching your premise validates both is buffoonery. You think the pope wouldn't validate his own religious standard by your same false logic?

Please do not conflate explanation with endorsement.
I'm not ENDORSING religion.

The irony here is that your mindless clinging to science is conspicuously non-scientific.

I'm merely disclosing that science is not THE ONLY criterion of truth within the confines of the omniverse.

"No discipline has all the answers." Physicist & Theologian Ian Barbour Ph.D & recipient of the Templeton Prize for Religion; on science & religion
 
"religion is faith
science is facts" #54

And if you're not a metallurgist, you have FAITH that the car you drive will endure the forces it's subjected to.
And if you're not a pharmacist or an MD, you have FAITH that your prescriptions will be beneficial.
And if you're not FDA you have FAITH that our food supply is safe enough to eat.
And if you're not a meteorologist you have FAITH that they often have a better idea of what the weather will be 6 hours in the future than you do by looking out the window.

"religion is faith
science is facts" #54

Know it or not #54, you're showing your @$$ here.
To fundamentalist Christians, the criterion of truth is the scripture of the Holy Bible.

You are SUBJECTIVELY defending YOUR OWN standard as the OBJECTIVE standard. You're not smart enough to realize those with other standards would defend their own standards as zealously?
 
evince said:
note that Fox news is admitting global warming is real idiot
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No...they are admitting that 'weather' happens. Anyone with a brain knows that weather happens and has happened from the beginning of creation and the greatest driver of weather is Solar Energy. And trees have been going extinct from the beginning of creation. Its nothing new.....the only thing new is the revelation that some are attempting to use nature as a political tool. If not...why are you parroting and pasting weather patterns on a political board? :palm:
 
"'weather' happens." #58

It is a factual error to conflate weather with climate. They are not synonyms.

" If not...why are you parroting and pasting weather patterns on a political board? " R #58

Because of the obvious political implications.

One person out of over 7 billion acting independently isn't going to prevent anthropogenic atmospheric gas ratio on a global scale. It takes the cooperation of governments to do that.

" If not...why are you parroting and pasting weather patterns on a political board? " R #58

Capisce?
 
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