Magnolia Trees in Minnesota
Magnolia Trees in Minnesota, and I have one in my side yard. Tree was grown in Minnesota in Woodbury, about 5 miles from my home, and was transplanted to my property about years ago, after 5 years at the tree farm.
This was the first year the tree had blossoms, just a few as the tree is still growing it's root structure, to support flower blossoms.
I am 60 years old, and I know that there are various climate cycles all around the world. Yet the facts are straight forward about Carbon Dioxide, and Methane gas concentrations in the atmosphere, at a all time high. When I say all time high I mean that the scientist can go back 100 of thousands of years, using petrified tree rings to record the tree growth, long before homo-sapians started to cultivate land and domesticating livestock, building settlements and civilizations.
The scientists also have the ice cores on the rapidly shrinking glacier ice packs. These ice packs have the actual air from hundreds of thousands of years ago, and the dating can be accurately determined. They know exactly when the earth went into a snow cone ice age, where even all the seas and oceans froze over. The know exactly when the giant mega volcano expelled so much sulfur dioxide into the air, that it created such a cold ice age, that early human population almost went extinct. Today they can trace through DNA and gene research to determine through the female humans, that there were only 400 females at a critical early time, when the human species almost went extinct.
The earth's weather systems are a complicated duck soup of things that can effect the weather. More complicated than mans efforts to make sense of monetary policies through out the world. So do not take these so call experts that are preaching that all this global warming, is a bunch of cow dung.
Just because you do not fully understand all that is happening, does not make it untrue. I spent 6 years in Alaska, when in the Army, and spent most of my time in the field. Winters are harsh, but the tundra is fragile. If all that tundra starts to defrost, deeper and deeper, each year, all that buried organic material buried and frozen will start to release Methane Gas into the atmosphere at a astounding rate, and Methane gas is 10 time more damaging than Carbon Dioxide. There are also frozen Methane gas ice in the deepest trenches of our oceans, if our oceans continue to warm, that warmth reach further into the depths, and that methane gas trapped in frozen ice crystals also will be released into the atmosphere.
When too much of this methane gas is release, it will shut down our ocean currents that keep our norther climates warmer during the winter. The change can be complete in less than a 10 years span. The scientists have ice core records that confirm that it has happened before, not once, but repeatedly over millions of years.
Isn't is nice to read the truth, from someone who does not have a axe to grind? ~Parnelli "I say what I mean, and I mean what I say!"