Report: Redwoods thriving as climate changes

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT ^ | August 14, 2013 | MATT BROWN

[rey]

There is finally some good news from environmental scientists studying climate change: as the earth gets warmer, ancient redwood trees are thriving.

The huge trees that dot the California coast and the Sierra Nevada mountains soak up carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, keeping the potentially harmful greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere.

Despite the warming climate, redwood trees are growing faster than at anytime over the last century, according to a report issued today by the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative.

[rey]

Go figure. Trees need carbon. Who wooda thunk it?

[Mastador1]

This is just more junk science from global warming deniers, I am sure that they have skewed the numbers in a unethical manner to support their ludicrous opinion.

[AU72]

The redwoods have survived hundreds of years of climate change, so?

[The Great RJ]

First the earth is cooling not warming and second redwoods have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and have survived millenniums of natural climate change including two ice ages.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Quick! Cut ‘em down or they’ll ruin EVERYTHING!

[ScottinVA]

EnviroWhackos: “Damn that abundance of CO2! It’s ruining our agenda!!”

[Fraxinus]

The huge trees that dot the California coast and the Sierra Nevada mountains

This guy's dendrology is seriously faulty. The Coast Redwood is Sequoia sempervirens and does not live in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The Giant Sequoia is Sequoiadendron giganteum and a very different species.

[Lorianne]

Well this is not good news.

Now we will certainly have to pass laws and raise taxes to battle “climate sameness.”

[Mister Da]

A warm climate nourishes life, a cold one kills it.

Most of the world's advanced societies live in the northern latitudes of the northern hemisphere. Countries like Canada & Russia would benefit greatly with a few more degrees of warmth. Most of the world's grain crop is grown in the northern latitudes. With more CO2 in the atmosphere & a longer growing season, the price of food would drop dramatically, benefiting the entire world population.

Contrary to the AGW fools, CO2 is a very good thing, as is a warm planet, especially for plants. That this has just occurred to an org. dedicated to protecting a plant species suggests they are blinded by a false ideology.

CO2 might have a minor effect on our climate, but that effect is dwarfed by the effect of the Sun & the ocean currents.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Despite the warming climate, redwood trees are growing faster than at anytime over the last century . . .

I'll bet my damned grass is, too!

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[AnalogReigns]

Coast Redwoods and Giant Sequoia are both called "Redwoods," and are very similar species. Both are huge and ancient. The Giant Sequoia handles cold better and can be found in the California mountains, whereass the Coast Redwood, like its name is nearer the coast, and cannot handle below freezing weather.

Coastal Readwood:

Giant Sequoia: