Chernobyl
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Post by Chernobyl on Jan 22, 2009 18:59:57 GMT -5
to our forests... Death rate of West's old-growth forests doubledExperts suspect warming, fear 'prelude to bigger, more abrupt changes' www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28773860/
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Post by Shadout Mapes on Jan 23, 2009 0:31:11 GMT -5
Bad news alright, and if they would let cannabis to be widely planted it would help against things like that. Natural forest fires are another concern because we don't allow for them in a managed system. ><Tomasina ChicaWolverina!
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Post by Chernobyl on Jan 25, 2009 3:02:59 GMT -5
You mentioned the magic words, "forest fires". The picture above is an actual photo of a forest that is ready to explode in flames if someone sneezes in the wrong direction. It is a forest that probably hasn't burned since before the US was forming. Earth sounded the "Tilt!" alarm about 10 or 20 years ago and nobody noticed....
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Post by shewolfe on Jan 27, 2009 0:33:17 GMT -5
Isn't fire actually a good thing (in the long run)?
Because where volcanoes burned the earth, much more green grew out of that...and I heard that forest fires are good because the folliage and trees grow in thicker.
I don't know?
But I think it might take a long time for it all to grow back again.
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Post by Roland of Gilead on Jan 27, 2009 2:35:31 GMT -5
That's the problem. A percentage of forests always burned and were replaced. But, when a forest burns, we don't see it return to what it was in our short lifetimes, so we can't allow it to burn at all.
Immortality would solve it all.
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Chernobyl
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Post by Chernobyl on Jan 27, 2009 10:27:13 GMT -5
...Immortality would solve it all. Immortality, indeed! If the forests in our regions (and we all live near some incredibly beautiful forests) burned, they wouldn't regain their full beauty for another two or three hundred years -- if at all if we really are on the edge of a runaway greenhouse problem. We get only a smidge of a fraction of two hundred years granted to us. It would be kewl to live long enough to see forests come and go ... but there's no way this planet could sustain immortal creatures. Not like us anyhow.
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