Climate change boosts then quickly stunts plants, decade-long study shows

[DavidDvorkin]

The findings, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, show that plants may thrive in the early stages of a warming environment but then begin to deteriorate quickly.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/nsf-ccb041112.php

It's a good thing global warming is just a liberal hoax. If it were real, we'd really be in trouble.

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. Dandelions.

I'm sure they'll figure out a way to thrive.

[RC]

3. Dandelion wine, Dandelion salad, Dandelion salad dressing, Dandelion table center pieces, Dandelion

seed pillow stuffing...

[DavidDvorkin]

4. They're certainly thriving in my lawn

In spite of the unusually hot, dry weather.

[Frustratedlady]

2. I can see a huge difference in my flowerbeds and the varieties I plant today compared to 1970s.

I ran across some photos from the 1970s of flowerbeds my husband and I planted in a contest against each other to see which one could produce the prettiest beds. I nearly fell over when I saw the difference between then and now, even though I have struggled to enhance the soil, fertilize and till the soil more to get the same results.

For one, our springs are earlier followed by a cold spell (it was 27 degrees early this morning), and the last 2-3 springs have been rainy to the point we couldn't plant the flowers.

I finally decided the seed companies must have "improved" the seeds in some way that changed their growth habits. Maybe I've been experiencing these problems because of the change in climate and nothing else. Crazy!

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. That could be trouble

Also we will lose bread basket to Canada for a few things.

Ayup, liberal loony thinking.

[DavidDvorkin]

8. Egypt was the breadbasket of the Roman Empire

There was climate change before the Industrial Revolution, of course, but it's so much faster and more severe now.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, DavidDvorkin.

[JDPriestly]

7. I remember reading years ago, probably in 1973-74 or thereabouts

that the plan was to make the US the breadbasket of the world. I didn't quite get it then, but I take it that even at that time, the wealthy elite planned to gut our industrial core.

[Egalitarian Thug]

9. The decision was made in the 50's and planned in the early 60's.

The labor shortages and escalating demands of the 50's, followed by JFK's insurmountable popularity and unwillingness to do as he was told, was the catalyst. They brought Nixon back specifically because he was always the good soldier.

"Only Nixon could go to China". How many times have we heard this quotation? How many times have you asked, "Why did Nixon go to China"? Who went with him and immediately began setting up shop?

Do you think that "America" could dismantle and ship its entire industrial base on the spur of the moment, let alone set up a web of laws that made the American taxpayer pay for it? Do you think only one, weak political party did this?

[JDPriestly]

10. +100