Divergence of Species Responses to Climate Change
A very interesting and scientifically driven study of how climate change has increased the size of plant life, specifically forests, and increased the size of the plants themselves due to climate change. They specifically note both an increase in the temperature and an increase in the water available is the primary reason this is happening. While this is a real positive aspect of climate change, it is totally disregarding the primary driver of these observations.
We know the story behind climate change, that the global temperature is going up precipitously, that there will be significant droughts, there will be unprecedented sea level rise, that storms will increase both in number and intensity, that there will be famines and shortages of food, and that our "green" land will shrivel away. This article disproves the last idea and does it well.
None of the climate change predictions have come to fruition. NONE! In fact ALL of them have gone in the OTHER direction. Temperature has NOT gone up, there have actually been fewer droughts, the sea has not changed in what is a normal sea rise, storms have not changed, farm production has grown at a much higher rate worldwide than the population, and our forests have expanded both northward and westward.
The one major driver they leave out of this whole equation is, however, CO2. CO2 levels HAVE been going up, up, up. Plant life LOVES CO2 and thrives on it. The more the better! And it is pretty clear that the rise of CO2 has not driven any of the other predictions to happen. The size of the forests and the size of the trees HAS been growing and CO2 has more to do with that than temperature and water.
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Comment by Eskutassis on May 22, 2017 at 1:30pm
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Frank, It is because the agenda driven loony left would not include ANYTHING that would make their projects look like they didn't make any sense. They have driven the CO2 bus so far they have been able to make people believe it is a poisonous gas rather than something ABSOLUTELY necessary for life to be sustainable. It truly is a fraud, no more than that it is the biggest lie that ever been perpetrated on humanity. CO2 is GOOD for us and our environment. Without these increases, there would be no way to grow enough crops to feed the population of the world.
Now if we could only get rid of the Ethanol in gasoline there would be even more crops for people and livestock, drive food prices down, and make our vehicles and equipment run better. That is the second biggest fraud.
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Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on May 22, 2017 at 11:26am
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The increase in bio-mass has been measured by the Northern Forest Alliance, now https://northernforest.org/ ; or go directly to their CARBON resource center at https://northernforest.org/resources/forest-carbon-resources . Carbon is a major component of forest management. One of the findings was that Northern New England forests are increasing their biomass at a rate of 2-3% over use; urban green waste now fuels biomass CHP plants in Western Massachusetts.
The latest 2017 upgrade of iFORE software can precisely calculate the CO2 uptake of a tree or a tract of trees; it's a lot of work but if you want to see how they do it, download the software. I've taken a 40 acre tract clear cut for a wind farm transmission line and approximated the loss of CO2 conversion and carbon storage. This is a significant environmental impact of wind farms and NOT INCLUDED IN THE SITING ACT. I wonder why?
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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