Food for Thought...

Not an endorsement but here is the link.

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/global-warming-induced-fertilization-effect-causing-b-c-s-forests-to-grow-back-faster-than-expected

Thanks!

This is not shocking.

Warmth and increased CO2 promote plant growth.

It also causes ice to melt and habitats to climb up mountains and kill native plants.

tcmtech will say it's a great thing.

Fact is, we will never know, because we'll be dead.

Whatever the truth about AGW is, we WILL be paying those noble "green" taxes to those noble deep pockets till we'll be dead, and then some more. S.M.

To me it doesn't look like anything more than nature doing what it does best and that is adapt and find something favorable in a change rather than stand around whining and trying to keep change from happening or denying that it ever happens to begin with.

Nature trying to find its balance.

The article seems to have discounted the last paragraph of the study which states:

...""The future carbon balance of the province's forests is, however, expected to be adversely affected by the likely increase in frequency of large insect disturbances associated with future warm winters which are known to increase winter survival of the bark beetles larvae [Bentz et al., 2010]. The extent to which this and other factors not included in our simulations will modify future carbon balance of province's forests is subject of ongoing research, and therefore, the results obtained from application of the CLASS-CTEM model for future climatic and atmospheric CO2 conditions must be interpreted in that context.""

So it seems the warming weather is also a boon to the insects...That is not to say that the rising levels of CO2 do not enhance the growth of plants, they clearly do, as have many studies documented, but the increased vegetation also provides more food....Food for thought and food for growth....

Have to agree with the insect population increase due to warmer winters, via the reverse outcome route. I have Japanese beetle enticing flowering plants in several gardens in my yard. The two winters prior to this, when we had extended periods of record breaking cold, and a deeper than usual frost line, brought a definitely noticeable decrease in these pests. Last summer, I barely had to spray anything in my gardens, and hung up no traps. Previously, it was a near daily task to go out and "round up" the pest. Trap change out was a weekly ritual in June and July.

They may not be entirely calculating out the end results on the forest. As I understand, the extreme weather swings will also be enhanced by the warming trend, actually bringing more of the record breaking cold south in winter. Perhaps the pests will not increase as expected. There are way too many variables to consider to truly figure out what an increase in average temperature will bring.

After listening to a recent radio programme on the farming of insects in the UK (we currently import from Canada), I'd say the increase in insect population would be a moneyspinner. Bring on insect flour, deep fried crispy insects......

Home workers attention opportunity knocks start a roach farm money making easy spare time reports of 10's of dollars made with little time invested....!!

Financial Independence is just an Email away!!

Get your Happy Farmer roach kit today....!!

http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-c1-china-cockroach-20131015-dto-htmlstory.html

Yuan....

Pest control is a year-round process. With an awareness that new seasonal pests have different habits, you'll still be in control. Just make sure pest control inspection is done at your property by the exterminator Vacaville CA like professionals to keep the pest's population at bay. Pest control is a process that requires your attention all year. Don't let your guard down just because the weather turns cold or warm.

I don't like professional services. Too many chemicals we don't know the end effect of at this time. I have three cats that love to lounge in the yard. We already have too many bio-accumulators in the ground and waters around us. I use bags with bug pheromones to trap them and good old hand smashing on the beetles that don't go to the trap on my property.

In winters, pests always hide in the cracks and crevices. They are in need of a food and shelter. Therefore they are invisible.

Not the beetles I'm dealing with. They spend the winter in a grub worm form in the ground. Early June they emerge by the hundreds and leave a multitude of tiny holes in my yard. The emergence is heralded by flocks of birds descending on my yard and just waiting for the little buggers to come out. We see a great reduction of them after winters where the temperatures have gone sub zero for extended periods. Get a winter where we see sub zero only once a week or so, and there are literally thousands more to deal with come June.

Fortunately, as far as the war on these beetles goes, the changing weather patterns seem to have increased the days below zero here in the northeast. While other areas of the country and the world are above temperature averages in winter, we've seen quite a few below normal winter temperatures in recent years. My beetle population has been dropping since about 2012. Now those temperatures create other issues, but at least they decrease the beetle population.

Insects....Like mosquitos!

Then I'm all for it!

Good grief, those mosquitos you have in the Midwest could each be a major food source. Everytime I see one out there I look for the deHavilland logo.

I can just see it now. New ranching income! Cowboys with jet packs roping mosquitos and pulling them onto a C5 Galaxy for overseas export.

it's those females mosquitos that are the nuisance

unbeknownst to most, the mosquitos have a carrier moored off shore in lake Superior.

What, they raised the Edmund Fitzgerald??

No kidding, they'd need a ship that was "bigger than most"!!

<...fuel on the bonfire...> That would increase CO₂ emissions. ;-)

I did think about saying tires on the bonfire .

I'll get tcmtech

The more, the merrier. :-o

Its part of the cycle, It'll promote plant grow,

• then melt the polar ice caps.
• Of course the warmer temperatures, water and high carbon dioxide the forests which will then oxygenate the atmosphere
• while the forest growth sequestering the carbon until the oxygen level gets to be 30%.
• then a big super volcano blows

or

• a huge asteroid hits the earth
• then with the high oxygen levels and all that tender, it then torches the earth
• and the smoke shields the sun and creates an ice age
• and we all start over again.

believe me, I've seen this all before. ;-)

Help.... Greenland is melting....who knows if this keeps up maybe Greenland will actually become a green land, instead of an Iceland, which is actually a green land....

http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/15/world/greenland-ice-melt/index.html

Sometimes you gotta love science:

This versus This

So was it warm or cold?

Check this to support the theory that it was warm followed by cold which has driven out the Norse from the American continent.