Posted on 02/12/2015 9:03:03 AM PST by pabianice
We're already seeing the effects of global warming, claims study that used outdoor HEATERS for 23 YEARS to warm mountain meadows
Scientists set up heaters above five plots in meadows in the Rockies
The heaters ran day and night for 23 years to simulate global warming
They produced CO2 equivalent to driving a car 87 times around the world
The researchers compared the heated plots to five others left untouched
After two decades the unheated plots changed to resemble the heated ones
Vegetation in the meadows became more woody and soil became poorer
By Richard Gray for MailOnline
Published: 06:07 EST, 12 February 2015 | Updated: 07:59 EST, 12 February 2015
The impact of global warming can already be seen in the habitats around us, according to a study that saw scientists run heaters outside for 23 years.
Ecologists monitored the changes that took place in meadows in the Rocky Mountains and compared them to plots others that were artificially heated to simulate global warming.
After more than two decades, they found that the unheated meadow plot as are now starting to resemble those that had changed quickly as a result of the artificial heating.
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I wish I would have known. I would have invited them to come and heat my yard.
I call BS...23 yrs ago global cooling was the fear!...and how in the hell do u heat an entire meadow??
BS meter just blew breaker.
Dear stupid “scientists”,
What do greenhouses do for plants grown inside them?
Sincerely,
Not Fooled
There has been global temperature change for BILLIONS of years. And it is NOT man-made. Let the idiots and fools “warm” and “cool” the earth.
Why did God create Democrats??? Most likely to make conservative thinkers look even better...
Interesting. Perhaps Leftists really do believe in the global warming myth, or at least a substantial amount of them do. Since Leftists are interested in the wholescale destruction of America, it makes perfect sense that these eggheads attempted to destroy the ecosystem.
It makes me wonder if the global warming myth has deterred Leftists (to some degree) from attempting to enact other plans to destroy America. If they are preoccupied with ineffective stunts such as putting heaters in meadows, this means less of them are devoted to programs which are actually dangerous, such as importing Muslims into the United States.
Knock me over with a feather! I grew up in Eastern North Dakota where the soil was rich and deep. Here in SW Pennsylvania, it is poor and woody. Of course, there are areas close to us where farmers cleared the wood, planted corn and found out it yields sweet corn of almost equal quality to what we grew in eastern North Dakota when I was a boy.
It is the trees which are the culprit, I tell you! Cut them down and plant corn . . . or alpine flowers.
How did they get the heaters 93 million miles away? What did they do when it snowed? In their study, did they find out how to mitigate the problem?
There is nothing to conclude here.
There’s no doubt that heat islands can affect local microclimates. Inversion layers trap particulates over cities and change the local weather by increasing precip.
But to extrapolate those isolated short term events into large scale drivers is ridiculous. Small perturbations can sometimes lead to large scale changes in fluid systems but it’s temporary.
So it proves nothing about so called “climate change”.
Heaters outside? for how long?
They wasted fuel. They contributed to global warming.
This passes for science?
I read this study that artificially heating 5 sites for 23 years has no effect on its local environment when compared to naturally warmed sites.
The results are exactly the same.
The same result happened when I was involved in an Acid Rain study in MN 35 years ago. We planted acid sensitive plants downwind of a coal burning plant. There was no change in the plants vs not downwind of the coal burning plant.
The study was never made public (for some reason)
I don’t even see why they needed to foolishly simulate this effect when it’s already all around us every day...
According to White Hut Spokesliar Josh Earnest:
“”The point that the president is making is that there are many more people on an annual basis who have to confront the direct impact on their lives of climate change or on the spread of a disease than on terrorism,” Earnest said.”
So all we have to do is look outside our window and see how the whole world has literally become a desert. There are no tress, or grass or plants...Just cacti.
Perhaps someone could inform the rest of us who paid for the energy for twenty-three years for this experiment?
Wondering how the heat from those suspended heating elements was captured? How was the heat kept in the valley with natural breezes, and natural air movement?
My ACME catalogue BS meter alarm is going nuts.
The only answer is government issued freezers to only be used outside with their doors open.
Even if there were changes, how do you know what would have happened if there were no heaters? That there was “change” does not prove cause and effect. The results could have been identical if there were no heaters.
I can’t imagine that these heaters made any difference. It is like trying to heat my house with a tiny cake candle. They do know there’s this thing called “wind” right? ...they might also want to look up “the Sun”, I think it might play a part.
I swear, some of these studies are purely political tools to preach idiocy to the masses. I’m sure I’ll have somebody on Facebook post a stupid pic on this...like I just had the other day, that the sea level was rising in the “Florida area”!! ...just Florida, not elsewhere in the connected oceans of the world. I pointed out there’s plate tectonics to think about, land masses are not static. It scares me how many don’t have any critical thinking skills at all...they just swallow the meme, then think they know what “the facts” are. Astonishing.
“There are no tress, or grass or plants...Just cacti.”
Good. I always wanted to zeroscape..
” So it proves nothing about so called “climate change”.”
It DOES prove that if one has even a modicum of sense, one can get and keep a high paying job, and not have to take an asst. mgr. job at McDonalds.
That’s ok, there are millions of kids running in and out leaving doors open and air conditioning the whole outdoors. And husbands who never shut the freezer door.
Forest fires ‘heat’ too. The ‘Brian Williams eco frauds’ should destroy the land. It’s cheaper than heaters...
Burn it to the ground.
Burn in the name of mega liberal delusion...show the world. Then eco liars can turn to the press and say, ‘dead bodies will float by on the black layers of charred carbon if we don’t get massive funding...”
Could work .. the press is dumb enough. Has anyone ever met a reporter who could do math?
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