Posted on 04/21/2007 10:30:21 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
They are wrong. Helen Thomas does not even have branches.
Guaranteed, this is not the Tree of Knowledge.
Tree? The squirrels would be very disappointed with these frondcone trees.
What’s this all about? I’d only ever read about “fern trees.”
So now CO2 is the only thing that affects global climate?
Methinks the global-warming used-car salesmen are overplaying their hand.
Let’s see:
(a) “warming” induces greater growth of green-leafing plant life (longer temperature-beneficial growing season)
(b) greatly increasing growth of CO2 absorbing life which also tends to cool surface temperatures
therefore (a-global warming) + (b-more plant life) = (c)global cooling.
As satisfying as that simple statement is, it only works if the cycles of the Sun (which induce all major earth-temperature trends) are also ignored as if they have no affect on (a) to begin with, when in fact they have the largest affect.
A clear example of sneaking propaganda into what seems to be an otherwise factual story. All green leafed plant life absorbs carbon dioxide. Chlorophyll uses sunlight to convert CO2 to oxygen. Chlorophyll is what makes them green. The cooling statement is simply the authors opinion.
...until early profit-seeking proto-Republicans clear-cut these magnificent frond-tree forests, ignoring the heart-felt and eerily-prescient entreaties of early Democrats who wanted only to be good stewards of the earth for the benefit of future generations, etc., etc.
Id only ever read about fern trees.
Kewl, I always wondered where they broadcast “Fernwood Tonight” from, didn’t know it was New York.
Archaeopteris was a very different beast from Wattieza. It was conifer-like, had leafy twigs, a large root systems and long-lived branches that grew from the side of the trunk.
Confusing for a layperson as study shows the fern/spore Archaeopteris but then the “woody” Archaeopteris tree which is conifer like.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1901623.htm
ABC’s science. ;)
“The cooling statement is simply the authors opinion”.
They think they can sneak this stuff by us! Thanks for pointing it out:)
And atop the oldest trees in New York were the oldest birds in New York...pigeons.
Spore you say?
A green leafed plants absorb it but rigid dense fronds are probably more efficient at storing it. Just like succulents are more efficient at storing water. Just guessing here.
I had to look very closely too but ArchaeopterEX is the feathered dino while apparently Archaeopteris is a tree.
So they sucked in CO^2, and exhaled that damned toxic, horridly reactive, habitat destroying O^2?
They suicidally turned the earth’s atmosphere from a Paradisiacal warm, reducing mixture, into an incredibly noxious, cooler oxidizing atmosphere?
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