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Places to Go Before Global Warming Ruins Them
Topic Started: Feb 17 2009, 06:25 AM (143 Views)
QuirtEvans
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/02/17/global.warming.travel/index.html
It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Copper
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Messes them up? (Or ruins to use Mr. Evans word).

Maybe the change will be for the better. Who knows what nature has in store?

Why be such a negative person? The glass is half full.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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QuirtEvans
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It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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Luke's Dad
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According to my calculations, where I'm living now will be prime Ocean Front Property in about forty years. Thirty if the SUV business picks back up.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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blondie
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I'd certainly agree with the Rockies. In many, many places the damage is now done. Pine Beetles have devastated so much of what I knew as a kid. And soon it will be gone. Huge tree graveyards, looking at things now. There's no forrest. Just rock jutting up to/through the clouds. So much erosion. Rock, snow, mud slides now. Too frequent now. Too much run off. And rivers now run lower later in the season more east. Irrigation isn't there for our natural grasslands (the areas of our First Peoples, the buffalo hunts, etc). Further east our farms (the domestic crops like wheat, barley, rape) suffer. When I was little there used to be annual forrest burns to thin things out, to promote new growth in places where natural life-death processes didn't occur so quick. Watching that new growth happen & advance year after year was really cool. And it did happen. Birds and animals would return. Alpine vegetation re-started; it had it's own cycle. Very beautiful. Synergistic. Over decades you could see a good part of the eco-cycle when the forrest re-grew, progressed. That just will never happen again. The cycle is broken. I no longer recommend a road trip here to see our rockies. Too-too sad. I wish there were a cure for this Pine Beetle infestation. It's part of the reason I want to leave this place.
Renauda could probably describe it better. We see it from the south to the north of our province.
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Yep, that's what the Great Barrier Reef needs. Hordes of tourists in boats flocking to check it out.
Kincaid - disgusted Republican Partisan since 2006.
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Renauda
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blondie
Feb 17 2009, 07:33 AM
I'd certainly agree with the Rockies. In many, many places the damage is now done. Pine Beetles have devastated so much of what I knew as a kid.... We see it from the south to the north of our province.
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In reality Alberta has barely been hit by the beetle, compared to the BC interior. Last year when I drove to the coast on the Yellowhead I couldn't believe how in the space of three years the pine forests have be ravaged- it was mid June and it looked like fall. It was especially noticable between Kamloops and Merritt off the Coquilhalla connector. I hear that it is worse further north in the McBride/ Prince George areas.

My friends over in SRD- Forestry Div. are hoping that that intense extended cold spell we had here in Alberta around New Year's may have been enough to kill off beetle larvae. We'll have to wait and see.
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Luke's Dad
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Feb 17 2009, 02:48 PM
Yep, that's what the Great Barrier Reef needs. Hordes of tourists in boats flocking to check it out.
:hair: That's a great point! You ought to email that to whoever wrote the piece.
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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