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2007-04-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Axing the pine forests 'would slow global warming'
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Posted by Seafarious 2007-04-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 If they do I want them to replant with bio-engineered pine trees modified with firefly genes to flash for about 12 days plus/minus the Winter Solstice. Then we have beautiful Merry Christmas with no lights to string.

In the Southern Hemisphere the trees should be modified to flash around the Summer Solstice for the same reason.

Posted by 3dc 2007-04-10 00:31||   2007-04-10 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Trees in icy parts of the world increase the Earth's absorption of sunlight by shading reflective snow

Huh? If the trees are shading it, does it matter how reflective the snow is? You could cover the snow with aluminum foil (shiny side up) and it wouldn't make any difference if the trees are blocking the sunlight.

I'm glad that, being a rocket scientist, I deal with straightforward concepts.
Posted by Jackal">Jackal  2007-04-10 08:22|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2007-04-10 08:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Shading the reflective snow, and absorbing the energy themselves, via their foliage, Jackal. It makes a certain degree of sense. About as much as the algae-seeding notions for carbon sequestration, at any rate.
Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H.  2007-04-10 09:15|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2007-04-10 09:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't tell me.... pine tree farts cause global warming.

Plus Global Warming causes increased carbon dioxide not the other way around.
Posted by CrazyFool 2007-04-10 09:30||   2007-04-10 09:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Wait? Wha..? This makes my head hurt.

To save the planet, we must destroy it? I thought we were doing that already...
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-04-10 09:40||   2007-04-10 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Really good idea. Just think of the really really big houses Gore and Edwards could build with all that extra wood and space!
Posted by tu3031 2007-04-10 09:55||   2007-04-10 09:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Trees in icy parts of the world increase the Earth's absorption of sunlight by shading reflective snow, scientists claim. This type of forest adds more to global warming than it takes away by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Sounds almost like global warming is coming from the Sun, and not from Carbon Dioxide and man-made pollutants. Heretics!
Posted by rjschwarz 2007-04-10 11:21||   2007-04-10 11:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Wait? Wha..? This makes my head hurt.

it's the axe part DarthVader, use a chainsaw instead.
Posted by RD">RD  2007-04-10 11:58||   2007-04-10 11:58|| Front Page Top

#9 All the animals in the cleared forest would move to cities and get welfare.

Ultimately, if you eradicate all life on earth, then climate change here becomes irrelevant. But Martians would have a much cleaner solar warming measurement model. Think global, act planetary!
Posted by john">john  2007-04-10 12:34||   2007-04-10 12:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Thank God Gaia for them Haitian glaciers
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-04-10 12:35||   2007-04-10 12:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Snow?

Unless The Gorinator is in town, GW is going to make more snow???
Posted by anonymous2u 2007-04-10 13:07||   2007-04-10 13:07|| Front Page Top

#12 What about the Lesser Pine Tar Weevil ?
Posted by wxjames 2007-04-10 13:21||   2007-04-10 13:21|| Front Page Top

#13 Lesser Pine Tar Weevil. LOL.
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-04-10 13:46||   2007-04-10 13:46|| Front Page Top

#14 that would be Kenny Rogers of the Detroit Tigers?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-04-10 13:51||   2007-04-10 13:51|| Front Page Top

#15 Re: 3dc: think this through: if one of the firefly genes mutate, does that mean the whole tree would go dark????
Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-04-10 14:42||   2007-04-10 14:42|| Front Page Top

#16 Would this be pining for the fnords?
Posted by no mo uro 2007-04-10 16:35||   2007-04-10 16:35|| Front Page Top

#17 Frank, I was thinkin' more James Carville myself...
Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-04-10 16:38||   2007-04-10 16:38|| Front Page Top

#18 old snakehead? LOL
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-04-10 16:39||   2007-04-10 16:39|| Front Page Top

#19 wxjames, you jest but the Southern Pine Borrer Beetle has devastated large areas in the South. The effects can especially be seen around Oak Ridge.
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2007-04-10 19:05||   2007-04-10 19:05|| Front Page Top

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