Climate change doubles tundra plant life, boosting shrubs, grasses

Fron the article: Reports on how global warming is shrinking the Arctic ice cap are increasingly common. Henry said it could be just as important to keep track of how the climbing temperatures at the top of the world are affecting landscapes.

"There's lots of press every September when NASA comes out with the latest minimum sea ice measurements and assessments. That gets big play, but no one ever hears about tundra."

Perhaps we will, this September, hear more about the tundra.

From .. of course in #1

Nothing here about methane. Why not? As the freeze-thaw isotherm moves steadily towards the poles, the albedo effect of darker vegetation cannot cause anything near the feedback that methane from decomposing peat will.

Oh yes. AGW is REAl. Net heat emissions accompany CO2 emissions. Hence, Co2 is the culprit in at least five fronts:

(1) greenhouse effect,
(2) net heat emissions,
(3) oxygen depletion,
(4) its sister/daughter/related chemicals
(5) related pollution and its effects.

AGW is REAL. We must reduce CO2 emissions for our own good.

truthist wrote:

Oh yes. AGW is REAl. Net heat emissions accompany CO2 emissions. Hence, Co2 is the culprit in at least five fronts:
(1) greenhouse effect,
(2) net heat emissions,
(3) oxygen depletion,
(4) its sister/daughter/related chemicals
(5) related pollution and its effects.
AGW is REAL. We must reduce CO2 emissions for our own good.

UN IPCC Japanese Scientist
Dr. Kiminori Itoh,
an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.”

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm...

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IPCC reviewer
and climate researcher
and scientist
Dr. Vincent Gray,

an expert reviewer

on every single draft of the IPCC reports

going back to 1990

and author of The Greenhouse Delusion: A Critique of "Climate Change 2001:

“The [IPCC]‘Summary for Policymakers’ might get a few readers, but

the main purpose of the report

is to provide a spurious scientific backup

for the absurd claims

of the worldwide environmentalist lobby

that it has been established scientifically that increases in carbon dioxide are harmful to the climate.

It just does not matter that this ain't so.”

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((2) net heat emissions)

formerly an expert reviewer with the UN IPCC
Geologist/Geochemist
Dr. Tom V. Segalstad,
a professor
and head of the Geological Museum at the University of Oslo

“It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink

to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime

to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model

that purports to show

that an impossible amount of fossil fuel burning

is heating the atmosphere.

It is all a fiction.”

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm...

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JRS wrote:

<quoted text>
Warming fears are the “worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is, they will feel deceived by science and scientists.”

“The [IPCC]‘Summary for Policymakers’ might get a few readers, but
the main purpose of the report
is to provide a spurious scientific backup
for the absurd claims
of the worldwide environmentalist lobby
that it has been established scientifically that increases in carbon dioxide are harmful to the climate.
It just does not matter that this ain't so.”

“It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink
to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime
to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model
that purports to show
that an impossible amount of fossil fuel burning
is heating the atmosphere.
It is all a fiction.”

"A common misperception is that this is a crisis that is down the road," Senator McCain said on Monday, August 24, 2009. "Climate change is real. It's happening now."

(1) Rocky Mountain National Park where pine trees infected by beetles spreading are dying as temperatures warm in the Rocky Mountains.

(2) Glacier National Park is losing its glaciers.

(3) Low-lying coastal parkland is in danger of going underwater.

To repeat Senator McCain: "Climate change is real. It's happening now."

http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/1403148.h...

truthist wrote:

<quoted text>"A common misperception is that this is a crisis that is down the road," Senator McCain said on Monday, August 24, 2009. "Climate change is real. It's happening now."
(1) Rocky Mountain National Park where pine trees infected by beetles spreading are dying as temperatures warm in the Rocky Mountains.
(2) Glacier National Park is losing its glaciers.
(3) Low-lying coastal parkland is in danger of going underwater.
To repeat Senator McCain: "Climate change is real. It's happening now."
http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/1403148.h...

"Climate change is real. It's happening now."

Wow what a shock. And the idiots of this world get all in a tizzy.

The ancient cave men sat around the mastodon barbecue and said "Climate change is real. It's happening now." And then they went back to chomping on the barbecue.

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“Climate’s always been changing and it’s been changing rapidly at various times, and so something was making it change in the past,” he told us in an interview this past winter.“Before there were enough people to make any difference at all, two million years ago, nobody was changing the climate, yet the climate was changing, okay?”

“All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it’s absurd,” Bryson continues.“Of course it’s going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we’re coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we’re putting more carbon dioxide into the air.”

At age 86, he’s still hard at it every day, delving into the science some say he invented.

Reid A. Bryson holds the 30th PhD in Meteorology granted in the history of American education.

Emeritus Professor and founding chairman of the University of Wisconsin Department of Meteorology—now the Department of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences—

in the 1970s he became the first director of what’s now the UW’s Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies.

He’s a member of the United Nations Global 500 Roll of Honor—created, the U.N. says, to recognize “outstanding achievements in the protection and improvement of the environment.”

He has authored five books

and more than 230 other publications

and was identified by the British Institute of Geographers as

the most frequently cited climatologist in the world.

http://www.wecnmagazine.com/2007issues/may/ma...