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It's so difficult to fathom. The change from 1901-1925 to 1976-2000 is barely noticeable except in a few places, but it'll be dramatic by 2075-2100. I'm worried that the shifts may happen faster than plants can respond in some places.
Of course, it's likely that Greenland will see a lot of birch, willow and alder forests in coastal regions (conifer cones cannot cross an ocean) and lose most of its ice sheet, but I meant mainland North America.
It's so difficult to fathom. The change from 1901-1925 to 1976-2000 is barely noticeable except in a few places, but it'll be dramatic by 2075-2100. I'm worried that the shifts may happen faster than plants can respond in some places.
Of course, it's likely that Greenland will see a lot of birch, willow and alder forests in coastal regions (conifer cones cannot cross an ocean) and lose most of its ice sheet, but I meant mainland North America.
Well, "mainland North America" is a hugely diverse region with many microclimates...how long have you got?
Climate change has been happening on this planet well before man ever appeared. No one living today will see the out come in our life time. Basically, adapt or die out.
It's so difficult to fathom. The change from 1901-1925 to 1976-2000 is barely noticeable except in a few places, but it'll be dramatic by 2075-2100. I'm worried that the shifts may happen faster than plants can respond in some places.
Climate change is real -- has probably been going on since the origins if recorded history -- but it has been hijacked and over-hyped by a clique of environmental zealots, who see it as a convenient excuse to recruit the snowflakes, teenyboppers, and others among the easily-impressed and technologically-hostile with an excuse to party -- not to mention the lucrative possibility of entrenching themselves within an unnecessary environmental bureaucracy at the expense of taxpayers and those engaged in actual, productive work.
The phenomenon deserves a slow, careful privately-run and not-too expensive investigation, but this wouldn't serve the purposes of the alarmists who produce 30-second sound bites built around cuddly polar bears.
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Forget climate change; we are changing our native vegetation throughout North America: https://www.theguardian.com/environm...risis-resource. We had to have all of the products from far away places and those products brought hitchhikers. In some cases we had people that imported the pest with the best intentions; but it did not work out. In the meantime we now have 450 invasive pest that are in position to wipe out 40% of our forest. I think they have already taken my 40% off my five acres; I am busy cutting down all the dead Ash trees from the emerald Ash borers. Of course that was after I lost my hemlocks to the woolly adelgids and after I lost my pear and apple trees to the fire blight. Now my county is in quarantine for the lanternflies.
Climate change is real -- has probably been going on since the origins if recorded history -- but it has been hijacked and over-hyped by a clique of environmental zealots, who see it as a convenient excuse to recruit the snowflakes, teenyboppers, and others among the easily-impressed and technologically-hostile with an excuse to party -- not to mention the lucrative possibility of entrenching themselves within an unnecessary environmental bureaucracy at the expense of taxpayers and those engaged in actual, productive work. .
Wow, that was quite a pile of nonsensical vitriol to spit out in one mouthful.
Yeah. I bet Southern Magnolia is going to start escaping into the Tennessean wilderness as soon as average winter lows go above freezing. They're commonly grown here already, and the only thing stopping them is needing a 32F-40F average low in the coldest month for seed stratification.
Yay for the magnolias!
But that's only a small silver lining in a devastating problem, and it's not like most people don't already grow them anyways. Plus, equally desirable hardy palms could probably spread into TN one day even if we start cooling (most of the state has a January mean over 36F and hardiness zone at least 7a).
Yeah. I bet Southern Magnolia is going to start escaping into the Tennessean wilderness as soon as average winter lows go above freezing. They're commonly grown here already, and the only thing stopping them is needing a 32F-40F average low in the coldest month for seed stratification.
Yay for the magnolias!
But that's only a small silver lining in a devastating problem, and it's not like most people don't already grow them anyways. Plus, equally desirable hardy palms could probably spread into TN one day even if we start cooling (most of the state has a January mean over 36F and hardiness zone at least 7a).
I was talking about invasive pest; but you also have a valid point. Invasive plants, mainly from Asia, are taking over. Our are has the Japanese knotweed and Japanese stilt grass. It is almost like our Country is being terraformed to an Asian ecosystem.
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