Evolution and global warming

[Kalki]

It was allegedly recently reported, by the 'Liberal-Conservative Propagandist Journal for Simians', a subsidiary of the not-for-much-profit ($-kaching!) 'Eschatological Priest-Scientist End of Times' scientific committee, financed by wall street oligarchs (and taxpayers, shush), and promoted by the "leading priest-scientists" of this era, that the evolutionary purpose of the polygenism "higher" apes, is to unlock the carbon deposits, to usher in a new global evolutionary era.

Apparently, the so-called higher apes were created to reflood the earth (Hi, Utnapishtim) by unlocking the carbon deposits, and melting the ice. In the new stage of evolution, predicted to begin just beyond your lifetime so it cannot be falsified by conscientious objectors and religious and non-scientist persons, the polygenism psychotic apes will be phased out, in order for the superior marine mammals, including whales and dolphins, to become the new dominant order of the planet.

All scientific information presented was channeled, by the 'leading' priest-scientists of this era, from Sirius B.

Divination is a legitimate function of science, but only when it is scientist-priests doing the divination work, through terms like "theory" rather than "scripture".

David Hume objected, apparently, but the scientific canon or dogma, overrules reason.

 

[aaronleland]

 

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[waltky]

Broadleaf trees that shed leaves increase global warming...

'Wrong type of trees' in Europe increased global warming
5 February 2016 - The assumption that planting new forests helps limit climate change has been challenged by a new study. Researchers found that in Europe, trees grown since 1750 have actually increased global warming.

The scientists believe that replacing broadleaved species with conifers is a key reason for the negative climate impact. Conifers like pines and spruce are generally darker and absorb more heat than species such as oak and birch. The authors believe the work has implications for current efforts to limit rising temperatures through mass tree planting.

The replacement of broad leaf species like oak with conifers has increased warming say researchers​

Management issues

Europe's green canopy was dramatically thinned between 1750 and 1850, when the forested area diminished by 190,000 sq km. Ironically the greater use of fossil fuels, particularly coal, slowed the timber rush, and from 1850 to the present day, Europe's forests grew by some 386,000 sq km and now cover 10% more land than before the industrial revolution. However, the form and content of these new woods differed considerably from what went before. In the distant past, these forests ran wild - but in the modern world, some 85% of Europe's trees are managed by humans.

And over the past 150 years, foresters have adopted a scientific approach to woodlands - planting faster growing, more commercially valuable trees such as a Scots pine and Norway spruce. The rapid re-forestation of great swathes of European has generally been seen as a good thing due to the trees' ability to soak up carbon, something that has become particularly relevant in recent decades. But the new study questions the positive impact of all these new trees on the climate.

Under human management, Europe's forests have expanded but store less carbon​

The research team reconstructed 250 years of forest management history in Europe - and found that the way forests are controlled by humans can lead to far less carbon being stored than would have been the case when nature was in charge. Removing trees in an organised fashion tends to release carbon that would otherwise remain stored in forest litter, dead wood and soil. Choosing conifers over broadleaved varieties also had significant impacts on the albedo - the amount of solar radiation reflected back into space. "Even well managed forests today store less carbon than their natural counterparts in 1750," said Dr Kim Naudts who carried out the study while at the Laboratory of Climate Science and Environment in Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

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