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Congressman Warns Global Warming 'Could' Harm Christmas Trees
NewsBusters ^ | December 18, 2008 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 12/18/2008 5:04:59 AM PST by PJ-Comix

With an impeccable sense of poor timing due to a snowstorm in Las Vegas and unusually cold weather throughout the nation, North Carolina Congressman Heath Shuler (D-Of Course) is warning that global warming could harm the Christmas tree industry in his state. Key word is "could" since there is no evidence that any Christmas trees in that state have suffered from a global warming that hasn't even been proven to exist. Here is the Associated Press story of Shuler sounding the alarm for something that could happen (emphasis mine):

North Carolina Rep. Heath Shuler and forestry observers are warning that climate change could alter the state's Christmas trees.

Shuler and others plan to hold a press conference Thursday to discuss the impact of climate change.


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KEYWORDS: globalwarming; heathshuler
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Lets start an expensive new public program to investigate if global warming is killing off the Christmas trees even though there is no proof that it is happening or ever will happen.
1 posted on 12/18/2008 5:04:59 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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PING!


2 posted on 12/18/2008 5:06:08 AM PST by PJ-Comix (The Tide Turned Just a Half Year After Pearl Harbor)
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To: PJ-Comix

And they used to say Gerry Ford played too many games without a helmet.


3 posted on 12/18/2008 5:06:30 AM PST by Dahoser (America's great untapped alternative energy source: The Founding Fathers spinning in their graves.)
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To: PJ-Comix

How many concussions did he get while playing football?


4 posted on 12/18/2008 5:06:48 AM PST by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: Congressman Billybob

This is a story from your neck of the woods.


5 posted on 12/18/2008 5:07:42 AM PST by PJ-Comix (The Tide Turned Just a Half Year After Pearl Harbor)
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This little maggot was supposed to be one of the new, conservative, gun-toting democrats. Monkey-vomit little fruitcake.


6 posted on 12/18/2008 5:08:15 AM PST by Monsieur Poirot
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NO! You have it all wrong, CHRISTMAS kills Christmas trees.


7 posted on 12/18/2008 5:08:43 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (WHAT? Where did my tag line go?)
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To: PJ-Comix

I wonder what kills more Christmas trees, Global Warming or Christmas?


8 posted on 12/18/2008 5:09:30 AM PST by liberateUS
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To: Carpe Cerevisi

“playing football”? He was employed by a team or two whose chief business was football, and he wore a uniform while surrounded by people who were playing football, but near as I can tell, he never played football.


9 posted on 12/18/2008 5:09:46 AM PST by Monsieur Poirot
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To: PJ-Comix

was he wearing his tin foil hat when he made these statements....??....i am not even surprised at what i hear spewing from these idiots mouths anymore....good by america it was nice knowing you....


10 posted on 12/18/2008 5:11:21 AM PST by tatsinfla
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To: PJ-Comix

He was horrible Quarterback who became a horrible congressman.


11 posted on 12/18/2008 5:14:34 AM PST by MeSpikeLibs (Global Warming = Global BS)
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To: PJ-Comix
DOOMED!


12 posted on 12/18/2008 5:15:15 AM PST by Dallas59 (Not My President)
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To: PJ-Comix

And in 2006, they told us he was one of the new conservative Democrats...


13 posted on 12/18/2008 5:15:43 AM PST by mak5
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He’s as qualified as Caroline Kennedy!


14 posted on 12/18/2008 5:18:38 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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"conservative Democrat"

An oxymoron if I ever saw one...

15 posted on 12/18/2008 5:23:59 AM PST by Russ (Repeal the 17th amendment)
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...I live in Ashe County, NC where we grow $55 million worth of Christmas trees a year....folks here abouts are a lot more worried about root rot than global warming....thankfully we have Virginia Foxx(R-NC) as our Representative....she’s got more brains in her big toe than that fool Schuler.


16 posted on 12/18/2008 5:27:46 AM PST by STONEWALLS
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Yep, that could happen. And dinosaurs could come back to life and eat them all. You never know.


17 posted on 12/18/2008 5:28:32 AM PST by Kirkwood
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Beam me to Planet Gore !

18 posted on 12/18/2008 5:30:31 AM PST by steelyourfaith
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I grew up in western PA in Indiana County that bills itself even to this day as the “Christmas Tree Capital of the World”. As a teenager I trimmed these trees in the summer under the shadow coal generated power plants. The trees loved it!


19 posted on 12/18/2008 5:31:24 AM PST by mmanager (It is time to prune the tree.)
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Well, thank goodness the Holiday Trees seem to not be included in this warning, who has Christmas trees anymore? (sarc)


20 posted on 12/18/2008 5:36:32 AM PST by Sam's Army
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