Old growth trees linked to global warming

Astute Blogger:

BBC:

Europe's "Little Ice Age" may have been triggered by the 14th Century Black Death plague, according to a new study. Pollen and leaf data support the idea that millions of trees sprang up on abandoned farmland, soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This would have had the effect of cooling the climate, a team from Utrecht University, Netherlands, says. The Little Ice Age was a period of some 300 years when Europe experienced a dip in average temperatures.

OKAY... by extension... if more treees mean lower temperatures, then less trees mean warmer temperatures. OR OLDER TREES (which absord much less CO2 than young growing trees.

This seems to bear out an earlier study, by scientists out of CAL-IRVINE, which suggested that the Amazon Rainforest is actually causing global warming because the trees in the Amazon are the oldest they've ever been - meaning the Amazon is NOT absorbing as much CO2 as it did a hundred years ago when most of the tress were younger and growing fast.

Which implies that the best way to halt "TREE-MADE GLOBAL WARMING" would be IF WE CUT DOWN HUGE SWATHES OF THE RAINFOREST AND THEN REPLANTED IT WITH YOUNG, FAST-GROWING TREES! These trees would bind up much more CO2. The old trees could be truned into lumber, and houses and furniture - and therefore wouldn;t deacy and would add any CO2 to the atmosphere.

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Old growth trees make more interesting furniture because of their smaller growth rings.

The left continues to fight a strawman, that opponents of their agenda do not acknowledge that global warming exist. What skeptic question is the lefts theory that it is caused by burning fossil fuels. The left has wholly failed to explain global warming on Mars where no fossil fuels are burned. Until they can explain global warming on Mars, it will be hard to convince the skeptics that fossil fuels are causing the problem. More polution is created by the trash thrown off by trees and the eruption of volcanos than by cars.