Right you are! The trees are not fossilized:
They used to be alive.
More importantly, the most critical trees in the collection were alive as late as 1850 (before the invention of a standardized thermometer) and lived on the tops or sides of nearby hills along the Lena river.
The tops of those hills present a kind of prevailing microclimate for hilltops and hillsides in that area. It is today a very harsh microclimate and NO TREES OF THAT KIND live on those hillsides or the tops of those hills now.
They just don't. The violent storms that ripped these trees out and tossed them in the valleys below were so nasty they even removed the soil.
There are also signs that the hillsides and hilltops are COLDER now than they were 160 years ago!
Yes, it's clearly colder in that area than it was when the trees were alive.
That’s true.
My point is that the climate has fluctuated over the eons getting warmer and colder and it did it without the intervention of any human agency and it is doing it still.
Yet the global warming nuts continue to infer this is due to human activities - which is nonesense.
Its not possible to take a window of time only about a century or so in duration and extrapolate the observed fluctations within that time frame to indicate human agency is responsible for it.
But liberals never let facts get in the way of preconceived politically correct opinions.
Right you are! The trees are not fossilized: