Emission Of Smog Ingredients From Trees Is Increasing Rapidly

SpaceDaily ^ | Sep 29, 2004 | Princeton NJ (SPX) Sep 29, 2004

[sheik yerbouty]

He usually was!

[JSteff]

"Sportsman do more to support natural habitat than the "tree huggers."

But they still are not good.. they have guns.

[Texas Eagle]

Amen.

God bless Ronald Reagan.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[farmfriend]

these improvements may have been outweighed by increased VOC emissions from forests, mainly because of tree growth in abandoned farmland and increases in plantation forestry.

We need Natural Process now!

[SierraWasp]

The GANG-GREEN EnvironMentalistas won't be happy till the air and water are STERILE!!! Pee on 'em!!!

[El Gato]

Trees, Trees produce the pollution. Trees!

Ron Reagan knew that, and the stupid liberal eco-freaks pilloried him for it. Once more Reagan is proved correct and his enemies proved wrong. Reagan rocks!

[farmfriend]

My neighbor has 3 liquid amber trees on his lot. They are one of the worst.

[El Gato]

Explain your point. I'm having trouble understanding.

By definition, or the one previous poster is assuming at least, only man can cause pollution. I don't accept that, man is just as much a part of nature as the trees. Still, an undesirable side effect of technology is not the same as something nature does all on her own. (Or mostly, by neglecting the fact that man also affects the growth patterns of the trees).

[El Gato]

the natural trees growing in this area have to be darned near desert varieties, given some of the droughts I've seen

Depends on what you mean by "this area". I was looking up average annual rainfall for Texas cities yesterday, to see if my new location is drier or wetter than my current one (somewhat wetter). Sherman gets just over 49 inches per year. The second or third year I lived there we had over 60 inches, which is rain forest level. Dallas is at about 36 inches per year, IIRC. San Antonio only about 22.

[endthematrix]

I agree. The term includes acts of both man and nature. It affects both.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!

[Iscool]

I don't know much about this stuff...I do remember for years that the big problem was the ozone (up there around or in the atmosphere) and the growing hole in it...The sun's radiation shooting thru the ever increasing hole and the danger to our life and weather patterns...

We were running out of ozone...We were doomed...The smog was eating away at the ozone...

Lo and behold,
"The study examined a class of chemicals that are emitted as unburned fuel from automobile tailpipes and as vapors from industrial chemicals, but also which come naturally from tree leaves. These chemicals, known collectively as VOCs, react with other pollutants to form ozone, a bluish, irritating and pungent gas that is a major form of smog in the lower atmosphere."

Seems as tho the scientists have unwittingly found the solution to the problem...We're growing our own ozone...To plug that vast gaping hole???

What struck me in the article was the constant uses of the words, "may, could, possible, puzzle, etc....

[Tarpon]

Only man can cause pollution, I thought. Trees can't pollute, can they? So now what. Maybe we need to redefine pollution :-}. One man's pollution is another trees good gas, gets confusing.

If you ask me those damn Eucalyptus trees have got to go. They spew all kinds of stuff and burn like torches.

[tubebender]

RUSH has been saying for years there are more trees now than when John Wayne and the Pilgrims settled in America...

[Tarpon]

There never was an ozone hole because there always was an ozone hole. It's just that it is an ozone dough nut. The looney greenies just wanted you to think it was a hole so they could blame man for causing it.

The sun makes the ozone, the sun makes it go away.

But from the looks of this study we now have to make all the trees go away to save the earth. Makes you dizzy when you stir politics into the science stew.

[Restorer]

The "good ozone" is high in the atmosphere, where it filters UV light.

"Bad ozone' is generated down here, where it interacts with other gases to make pollutants. Due to its volatility, little if any ozone generated by humans makes its way into the upper atmosphere.

[Monti Cello]

...a bluish, irritating and pungent gas... Hence also the Blue Ridge Mountains.

[Let's Roll]

Never - what would they hug if they did that - each other?

Ewwww!

[dalereed]

"Between the trees and gaseous cows, we are doomed"

Don't forget the bean eating illegal aliens!