Posted on 08/22/2019 4:48:32 PM PDT by janetjanet998
A tropical plant has produced male and female cones outdoors in the UK for the first time in 60 million years, in an event that botanists say is a clear indication of climate change
Drops @LifeDiv · 21m Replying to @CNN I remember back in 59 million BC when those plants stopped producing cones, it was recorded in all the local newspapers.
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12m Why are you making fun of transgender plants😂
Mr Nuggins @PhoKingUgly · 26m Replying to @CNN Anyone have all of the records from 60 million years ago?
“first time in 60 million years”
I call BS.
60 million exactly? And they have not evolved a day past 60 million since then. Absolutely, positively, 60 million? And please tell me what will the climate (weather) be next Friday? Will it rain? /s
There was climate change 60 million years ago? Before people? Fascinating.
If you dig up a plant in tropical Africa, and bring it to England, or plant its seed there, and put it in a sunny Southern exposed area sheltered from the wind, it has a chance to flourish.
Southern England has a maritime climate which rarely has very hard and long freezes.
That’s all this is.
At some point they’ll get a very hard freeze and it will die.
It is shocking they could find microfiche going back that far
This was really poorly written.
I was totally baffled by that headline.
I finally figured they must mean nothing tropical has bloomed in the UK in 60mil.
Of course, then the assumption is UK has been in purely non-tropical status since then, never a chance of being near tropical levels. But shifting has taken place, it’s not all simply a change in the air temp.
The Romans had vineyards in Britain....
There has been no dramatic change in temperature.
Even IF the earth warmed say 1 whole degree it would make no difference to this plant.
This is just a plant growing under the right conditions.
It is BS. British fine wines were famous in Roman times. (That would have been during the LRoman Warm Period”). Where’s my fine bottle of British wine today?
Could be blooming idiots.
What have the Romans done for us???
Palm trees grow on the west coast islands of Scotland. The Gulf stream is the logical answer.
Far warmer in the UK in Roman times. Warm enough for the Romans to plant Mediterranean strains of wine grapes. Britain remained a major wine producer until about the 14th century when the Medieval warm period ended and a mini ice age set in persisting until the mid 19th century.
Good. About time the Brits got their cojones back
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