Even if you don’t have a gas stove, you’ve thought about it, which is just as bad
Climate change: trees grow for extra month as planet warms – study
Global warming is changing the way trees grow, new research suggests.
Researchers studying hardwoods in northwest Ohio say a century of warming has extended their annual growing season by a month on average.
The scientists from Ohio State University compared recent observations to detailed notes a local farmer began taking in the 19th Century.
They say the research has implications for how well different types of trees will cope with future climate change.
Between 1883 and 1912, farmer Thomas Mikesell made meticulous notes on local tree growth, precipitation and temperature in his home town of Wauseon, Ohio.
Our planet has warmed by 1.1C since the industrial revolution about 200 years ago. With most of that occurring in recent decades, researchers say Mikesell’s observations are a near unique pre-warming dataset to compare with modern times.
Wait, go back to that first paragraph: “research suggests.” That is virtually meaningless. The research should either say it is occurring or not occurring. Plus, it’s in a very limited area. In fairness, though, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was correct, because you can expect growing seasons to be longer during a Holocene warm period. And shorter during cool periods. Which the Earth was coming out of. Of course, this is being positioned as Bad
Trees are vital in sucking planet-warming carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and the researchers said a longer growing period probably meant they did more of that. But they warned that higher, fluctuating temperatures may also stress trees in ways so far unknown.
No matter what, everything is Doomy in Warmist World.
Mr Teach:
Note that scientists sample a population and do not test/examine the entire population. In this case they compared current growth rates of a sample of trees but not every tree on Earth and compared it to the notes kept by a farmer in Ohio over a century ago. Their results suggest, but do not prove, that trees have a longer growing period now compared to a century ago. Recall too that scientific theories are not proven.
Dear Hypocrite (AKA Elwood):
” The research should either say it is occurring or not occurring.”
Why don’t you use the same standard for supposed man made lobal warming.
Dear Dummy (AKA James):
Actually we do. It is most likely that the Earth is warming from the CO2 we’ve added to the atmosphere.
That said, the evidence in support of this theory is overwhelming, kind of like the evidence that smoking causes cancer. The results from a single study (i.e., the comparison of tree growth) is less persuasive than thousands of studies leading to the same conclusion (global warming research). But as is the case with any scientific theory there exists the possibility of falsifying the theory. Many millions of dollars have been spent attempting to falsify the theory of man-made global warming.
As evidence accumulates the theory becomes less likely to be falsified.
You should know this by now.
Rimjob: That said, the evidence in support of this theory is overwhelming, kind of like the evidence that smoking causes cancer.
“Causal fallacy” argument.
You should know this by now.
#SomeEvidence
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Dear Elwood:
” Many millions of dollars have been spent attempting to falsify the theory of man-made global warming.”
Actually if the theory is not testable or not predictable it is not a Scientific Theory.
What you have is a money source and politics.
It might also mean the range of trees increases in higher altitudes where they become sparse, and eventually fail altogether. More trees where we now see fewer trees? Would this not be a good thing?
Teach what do you think are the main driving forces of this warming ?
Orbital changes? Volcanic activity ? Increased radiance from the Sun?
Greenhouse gases?
Is it not “normal” for things to change without reasons?
What’s your excuse, johnnie boy?
Keep sucking on that hookah.
#TheScienceIsSettled
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