Trees grow for extra month as planet warms, study finds

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Climate change: trees grow for extra month as planet warms - study

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65037659

[BritManToo]

Isn't this a good thing?

I like trees.

 

Presumably farmers crops will all be growing an extra month as well.

Increased farm yields all around.

Edited March 28, 2023 by BritManToo

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On 3/28/2023 at 2:54 PM, BritManToo said:

Isn't this a good thing?

I like trees.

 

Presumably farmers crops will all be growing an extra month as well.

Increased farm yields all around.

Climate change supercharges threat from forest-eating bug

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-climate-supercharges-threat-forest-eating-bug.html#:~:text=The beetles kill the trees,brace the trees against storms.

 

Survey of U.S. forests ties tree-killing insects to climate change

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/survey-u-s-forests-ties-tree-killing-insects-climate-change-ncna1042221

 

Wake-Up Call: Climate Change Threatens Rice Farming

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wake-up-call-climate-change-threatens-rice-farming/#:~:text=One study found that each,lying farmland with salt water.

 

California’s desert trees can’t take the heat: study

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/3922578-californias-desert-trees-cant-take-the-heat-study/

[VocalNeal]

On 3/28/2023 at 2:54 PM, BritManToo said:

Isn't this a good thing?

I like trees.

Trees love CO2 and will grow faster if they get a longer growing season. This leads to more leaf shedding, which increases forest floor litter, which means more fuel for fires and the circle of life goes around.

[kwilco]

On 3/28/2023 at 8:54 AM, BritManToo said:

Isn't this a good thing?

I like trees.

 

Presumably farmers crops will all be growing an extra month as well.

Increased farm yields all around.

You can't examine MMCC in single issue terms - it is an intellectually incomplete way of seeing things.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 3/30/2023 at 4:33 PM, VocalNeal said:

Trees love CO2 and will grow faster if they get a longer growing season. This leads to more leaf shedding, which increases forest floor litter, which means more fuel for fires and the circle of life goes around.

Forest fires are a natural event, not a catastrophe. Only a problem because people choose to live in them.

 

If trees grow longer they will store more carbon. Stop cutting the world's forests down then.

IMO the greatest hypocrisy of the so called green agenda is that they do more about building windmills than saving forests.

[thaibeachlovers]

On 3/30/2023 at 7:22 PM, kwilco said:

You can't examine MMCC in single issue terms - it is an intellectually incomplete way of seeing things.

People generally see things in single issue terms. The greenies are failing because they don't explain their agenda in a way that most will accept.

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On 4/17/2023 at 6:59 AM, thaibeachlovers said:

People generally see things in single issue terms. The greenies are failing because they don't explain their agenda in a way that most will accept.

"The greenies are failing..."??? Really? Over 90% is your idea of failure?

Renewable power’s growth is being turbocharged as countries seek to strengthen energy security

"Global renewable power capacity is now expected to grow by 2 400 gigawatts (GW) over the 2022-2027 period, an amount equal to the entire power capacity of China today, according to Renewables 2022, the latest edition of the IEA’s annual report on the sector.

This massive expected increase is 30% higher than the amount of growth that was forecast just a year ago, highlighting how quickly governments have thrown additional policy weight behind renewables. The report finds that renewables are set to account for over 90% of global electricity expansion over the next five years, overtaking coal to become the largest source of global electricity by early 2025."

https://www.iea.org/news/renewable-power-s-growth-is-being-turbocharged-as-countries-seek-to-strengthen-energy-security