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More trees than there were 100 years ago? It's true!
Mother Nature Network ^ | Feb. 9, 2011 | Starre Vartan

Posted on 02/09/2011 5:24:51 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

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1 posted on 02/09/2011 5:24:52 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Oh give the tree huggers time...they will get around to banning oxygen.


2 posted on 02/09/2011 5:27:14 PM PST by Soothesayer9
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To: Free ThinkerNY

{Photoshop of Al Gore face into baghdad bob picture}

No, no. There is no good news about trees. Sky is falling, All is death and pain. Your family is going to die in 2012. It’s the republicans’ fault.


3 posted on 02/09/2011 5:30:41 PM PST by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge, MA grad student. Any potential conservative Christian FReepmail-FRiends out there?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Not if my husband has to keep cutting them down to heat our home because of all this global warming, lol.


4 posted on 02/09/2011 5:34:22 PM PST by goodwithagun (My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

More but different trees. The old hardwoods are gone, replaced by fast growing pine, aspen, etc.


5 posted on 02/09/2011 5:38:52 PM PST by macquire
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And increased CO2 enhances plant growth and forest expansion.

Oh wait. Were not supposed to know that.

CO2 is a pollutant.


6 posted on 02/09/2011 5:39:04 PM PST by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

There are a lot more pine trees on the slopes of the Sierra Nevada range in California than a 100 or even 150 years ago. This fact has been discovered by comparing old photos to the same scenes today.


7 posted on 02/09/2011 5:44:41 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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Just a minute here. Trees, like other plants, extract CO2 from the atmosphere and convert the carbon (and some hydrogen) into woody material, while releasing oxygen to the atmosphere. However, when the trees die, all that carbon is again oxidized. This is true whether the tree burns, or is eaten by termites, or consumed by fungi. From seed to maturity to death and decay, the net production of oxygen by trees is ZERO, and the net extraction of CO2 is likewise ZERO. The idea that plants produce oxygen comes from looking only at part of their life cycle.

If the greens were serious about reducing CO2, they'd advocate planting trees, turning them into paper, using the paper ONCE (no recycling), then burying the paper where the oxygen in the atmosphere couldn't get at it.

8 posted on 02/09/2011 5:51:47 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (New book: RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY. A primer on armed revolt. Available form Amazon.)
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To: macquire

Tree growth goes in eras. If you watched the same plot of ground over a 1000 year period, you would naturally see various phases of hardwood and softwood growth over and over again, affected by bugs, people, animals, weather, fire, global warming and cooling.


9 posted on 02/09/2011 5:53:15 PM PST by lurk
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The old hardwoods are gone, replaced by fast growing pine, aspen, etc

Did you figure that all out on your own? Or did you do some exhaustive research that revealed that with more trees now, they weren't OLD growth? You know, cuz all those trees that are around now that weren't here in 1910, I'm sure you would have *thought* they were old growth.

10 posted on 02/09/2011 5:54:00 PM PST by GreenAccord (Bacon Akbar!)
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More trees than there were 100 years ago? It's true!

So then, by correlation, we should all conclude that, global warming was caused by, more trees.

The democrats should be asking for government funding to chop down all those extra trees that are harming the environment.
11 posted on 02/09/2011 5:54:50 PM PST by adorno
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Time for a big bonfire and marshmallow roast.


12 posted on 02/09/2011 5:55:58 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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In 2000, a Rapid City, SD photographer sought to give an exact contemporary view of the photos taken during Custer's 1874 expedition to the Black Hills. You are immediately impressed that the photos taken in 2000 showed extensive forests where the 1874 photos showed empty meadows and prairie. The reason is decades of reforestation and extinguishing forest fires. See sample photos from the book here
13 posted on 02/09/2011 5:58:27 PM PST by The Great RJ (The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
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TREE PING


14 posted on 02/09/2011 5:59:58 PM PST by 4Speed
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To: Free ThinkerNY

TREE PING


15 posted on 02/09/2011 6:00:57 PM PST by 4Speed
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To: macquire

“More but different trees. The old hardwoods are gone, replaced by fast growing pine, aspen, etc.”

Yep. Those old growth trees sure came in handy when we were building the greatest nation ever!


16 posted on 02/09/2011 6:02:19 PM PST by panaxanax (*Memo to Jim DeMint: Check your mail. Your DRAFT NOTICE will be arriving soon!)
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To: macquire
More but different trees. The old hardwoods are gone, replaced by fast growing pine, aspen, etc

True that the great climax forests which greeted the settlers are gone, but the hardwoods are not exactly scarce. While lumber companies plant softwood for harvest, natural progression allows other growth to revive with maple-beech and oak-hickory stands spreading slowly and patiently to reclaim their place in parks and national forests.

Sadly, the great American chestnut, the most impressive tree of the continent east of redwood country, seems gone for good.

17 posted on 02/09/2011 6:02:34 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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You nailed it. The only net oxygen producers are the photoplankton. They don’t get consumed like land based plants because they die and fall to the bottom of the ocean and get covered by sediment.

The rain forests as the “Lungs of the Earth” is a load of crap.


18 posted on 02/09/2011 6:03:28 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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And the animals are moving back in. We have more white tail deer than you can shake an SUV at, a bald eagle nest less than a mile away, a burgeoning coyote pack replacing the role previously played by wolves and an occasional wayward lovelorn male moose hitting on the local dairy cows. And this is western New York State which was 25% forest and 75% farmland 75 years ago but is 75% forest and 25% farmland today.


19 posted on 02/09/2011 6:03:29 PM PST by immadashell
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The increase in trees is due to a number of factors, including conservation and preservation of national parks, responsible tree growing within plantations — which have been planting more trees than they harvest — and the movement of the majority of the population from rural areas to more densely populated areas, such as cities and suburbs.

Automobiles have played a significant part in the reforestation of America. The railroads cut down significant numbers of trees in the establishment and maintenance of the railroads, for railroad ties, for fuel, and for the towns that sprung up along the rails. The era of the automobile replaced this large user of wood, and largely with petroleum.

20 posted on 02/09/2011 6:07:05 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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