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Climate change threatens (whitebark) pine tree, U.S. says
SFGate.com ^ | 7/20/11 | Juliet Eilperin - Washington Post

Posted on 07/21/2011 8:51:15 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

Edited on 07/21/2011 8:52:53 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined Monday that whitebark pine, a tree found atop mountains across the American West, faces an "imminent" risk of extinction because of factors including climate change.

The decision is significant because it marks the first time the federal government has identified climate change as one of the driving factors for why a broad-ranging tree species could disappear. The Canadian government has declared whitebark pine to be endangered throughout its entire range; a recent study found that 80 percent of whitebark pine forests in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem are dead or dying.


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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming; pinetree; threatens
The good ol' Natural Resources Defense Council aka NRDC

Just one of a group of econut orgs that will only be haPPy when a green flag flies over every capitol in this land.

They could care less about trees or people..

1 posted on 07/21/2011 8:51:21 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Oh yeah, like anyone believes anyone in the “federal government”.

Climate change, my smelly Obama.


2 posted on 07/21/2011 8:56:29 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: NormsRevenge
I'll show them a threat.

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3 posted on 07/21/2011 8:58:52 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Da Coyote
Only one answer for these clowns.

Jackyl - The Lumberjack
4 posted on 07/21/2011 9:01:26 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Da Coyote

You can always expect the phrase “imminent risk of extinction” in every global wa...I mean, “climate change” story.


5 posted on 07/21/2011 9:07:17 AM PDT by max americana (FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
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To: NormsRevenge

Where’s the “not this s&*t again” guy?


6 posted on 07/21/2011 9:11:52 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: max americana

Was sitting in the doctors office yesterday and NPR was playing. They had someone on discussing this. Apparently there is a lack of some breed if beetle.

This is how they deduced that it is climate change.

My question to them would be, “if it is climate change, how to you propose to fix it?”


7 posted on 07/21/2011 9:11:55 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (As long as the MSM covers for Obama, he will be above the law)
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To: NormsRevenge

My classic response to this claptrap is to look a bit happily surprise and say:

Isn’t that great? We get to see evolution in action!

They don’t know what to do with it. Trust me!


8 posted on 07/21/2011 9:14:41 AM PDT by Chickensoup (We are increasingly monitored, watched, and forced to conform to the government's bidding.)
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To: NormsRevenge

My classic response to this claptrap is to look a bit happily surprise and say:

Isn’t that great? We get to see evolution in action!

They don’t know what to do with it. Trust me!


9 posted on 07/21/2011 9:14:57 AM PDT by Chickensoup (We are increasingly monitored, watched, and forced to conform to the government's bidding.)
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To: NormsRevenge

My classic response to this claptrap is to look a bit happily surprised and say:

Isn’t that great? We get to see evolution in action!

They don’t know what to do with it. Trust me!


10 posted on 07/21/2011 9:15:26 AM PDT by Chickensoup (We are increasingly monitored, watched, and forced to conform to the government's bidding.)
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To: NormsRevenge

My classic response to this claptrap is to look a bit happily surprised and say:

Isn’t that great? We get to see evolution in action!

They don’t know what to do with it. Trust me!

HICCUPS! SORRY.


11 posted on 07/21/2011 9:15:52 AM PDT by Chickensoup (We are increasingly monitored, watched, and forced to conform to the government's bidding.)
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To: Chickensoup

LOL.. Yup. It’s all about attitude..

LOok at all the Change we’re part of and witnessing?

makes the Industrial evolution look,, cough,, dirty.. grimy.. 8-]


12 posted on 07/21/2011 9:17:23 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: cripplecreek

Be Stihl, My heart..


13 posted on 07/21/2011 9:18:19 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

I thought trees added to the carbon imprint—chop ‘em down.


14 posted on 07/21/2011 9:19:13 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Chickensoup
I also do the same.
I tell them survival of the fittest, remember?
Their silence is deafening.
15 posted on 07/21/2011 9:25:02 AM PDT by tractorman (I never miss a chance to tweak a liberal.)
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To: NormsRevenge

99.9% of all species that have ever lived are now extinct.

— Stephen Jay Gould


16 posted on 07/21/2011 9:40:03 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: NormsRevenge

I hear they didn’t fair too well during the last Ice Age either.


17 posted on 07/21/2011 9:51:19 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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To: NormsRevenge

I thought it was acid rain, oh wait.


18 posted on 07/21/2011 10:14:23 AM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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