Don't tell trees that Global Climate Change is a Myth!

[AsburySkinsFan]

Sounds like a cure for the global employment crisis. You are spot on in your agreement that this is a great idea! I agree that less trees would be a good thing. I imagine that with a bit or research we could refine the process to work better then nature.

Seriously, you're just trolling now right?

[daveakl]

Seriously, you're just trolling now right?

What do you mean? I thought you were agreeing with me.

[Burgold]

a completely inappropriate and silly pun war based on this report between me and a well-known ESer can be found on this Facebook thread.

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn...=share_comment

[Burgold]

I always imagine that the reason that we (including me) joke about issues like this is that we don't have a ready solution. If trees are really feeling the pinch whether that's from natural or man made sources what can we really do about it? In a part of the country that's plagued by severe droughts here or in India can we afford to irrigate our Forests? If we do nothing and see some of the dying off periods that we already are... how long until replacement trees can replenish or worse, what happens to the food chain if we lose vast areas of forest?

We have some answers, but not many... so easier to joke.

[Corcaigh]

Sounds like a cure for the global employment crisis. You are spot on in your agreement that this is a great idea! I agree that less trees would be a good thing. I imagine that with a bit or research we could refine the process to work better then nature.

This is a fantastic idea. The 'trees' could capture rainwater and provide drinking stations. And they could light up in different colors, unlike the monotonous green that natural trees are limited to.

[Koolblue13]

a completely inappropriate and silly pun war based on this report between me and a well-known ESer can be found on this Facebook thread.

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn...=share_comment

That's pretty funny.

[SnyderShrugged]

What ever happened to Global Warming? Why is it called Global Climate change instead these days?

[twa]

how long until replacement trees can replenish or worse, what happens to the food chain if we lose vast areas of forest?

We have some answers, but not many... so easier to joke.

We can generate more food than natures natural food chain, food is not the real issue
oddly enough fossil fuel use enabled reforestation here

humans are a pestilence,but some are cute

[RedskinsFan44]

What ever happened to Global Warming? Why is it called Global Climate change instead these days?

My first instinct is to say that the term "global warming" has become loaded with negative meanings like "liberal" and you are seeing a switch in terms similar to the shift to "progressive". But I think a better explanation is that what we are seeing is more complex than just the planet warming, we are seeing changes in the frequency and severity of storms, precipitation distribution, etc (assuming that you believe these changes are actually occurring). So "climate change" more accurately captures the full scope of what is happening.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/basics/

[twa]

I thought it was to quell the laughter at GW meetings getting snowed in

[SnyderShrugged]

My first instinct is to say that the term "global warming" has become loaded with negative meanings like "liberal" and you are seeing a switch in terms similar to the shift to "progressive". But I think a better explanation is that what we are seeing is more complex than just the planet warming, we are seeing changes in the frequency and severity of storms, precipitation distribution, etc (assuming that you believe these changes are actually occurring). So "climate change" more accurately captures the full scope of what is happening.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/basics/

ahhhh, I see. I wonder what made the negative associations for Global Warming?

[Corcaigh]

What ever happened to Global Warming? Why is it called Global Climate change instead these days?

Because too many were either too stupid, or too willfully ignorant, to comprehend that small increases in global temperature would do more than just make last decade's average temperatures slightly warmer than the one before.

Small changes in the average temperature of the planet can translate to large and potentially dangerous shifts in climate and weather. Maybe people don't care that it will get a few degree warmer. But there are consequences in weather and the impact on human development and agriculture.

[twa]

But there are consequences in weather and the impact on human development and agriculture.

both beneficial ones and not

[RedskinsFan44]

ahhhh, I see. I wonder what made the negative associations for Global Warming?

Conservative pundits saying it was BS? Again, that was just a previous speculation of mine, I think the scope of changes argument makes more sense.

[Burgold]

I think it's because while humans like things in simple black and white terms reality is not so clean