Comments on: The verdant hills and plains of earth http://www.samizdata.net/2013/01/the-verdant-hills-and-plains-of-earth/ A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:57:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Round The Tubes: Puppy Blender Style « doubleplusundead http://www.samizdata.net/2013/01/the-verdant-hills-and-plains-of-earth/#comment-286996 Round The Tubes: Puppy Blender Style « doubleplusundead Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:58:12 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16462#comment-286996 [...] Heh Increase in plant food grows more plants. Film at Eleven. [...]

]]> By: Steve Quist http://www.samizdata.net/2013/01/the-verdant-hills-and-plains-of-earth/#comment-286791 Steve Quist Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:02:46 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16462#comment-286791 Is this good news or bad news? I dunno. On one hand the greenery would seem to act as a carbon sink, removing CO2 from the atmosphere and, according to some models, reducing global warming. On the other hand, vegetation may well reduce the albedo of the planet thereby absorbing relatively more solar radiation instead of reflecting it back into space. That would increase global warming. On the third hand, maybe the net effect depends on third, fourth or fifth order effects the modelers haven’t even accounted for yet.

]]> By: Paul Marks http://www.samizdata.net/2013/01/the-verdant-hills-and-plains-of-earth/#comment-286639 Paul Marks Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:10:18 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16462#comment-286639 Your eyes were wrong sherlock – there are no trees in Ohio, it is a land of burning hot sands.

Albert Gore Jr told me so – we chatted as he sat in his big mansion by the sea (sea level rise?) counting the millions of Dollars he has been paid by terrorist (Benghazi) supporting Islamic oil interests.

]]> By: sherlock http://www.samizdata.net/2013/01/the-verdant-hills-and-plains-of-earth/#comment-286540 sherlock Thu, 31 Jan 2013 04:38:44 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16462#comment-286540 When I revisited my boyhood neighborhood in southern Ohio a few years ago, after being away 40 years, I could not easily find my house, because the whole area for miles around was “overrun” with trees, compared to when I lived there and it was farmland with only scattered houses.

]]> By: The verdant hills and plains of earth « Samizdata | jamesbbkk http://www.samizdata.net/2013/01/the-verdant-hills-and-plains-of-earth/#comment-286502 The verdant hills and plains of earth « Samizdata | jamesbbkk Thu, 31 Jan 2013 03:42:11 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16462#comment-286502 [...] The verdant hills and plains of earth « Samizdata. [...]

]]> By: BSKB http://www.samizdata.net/2013/01/the-verdant-hills-and-plains-of-earth/#comment-286468 BSKB Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:59:52 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16462#comment-286468 I guess people didn’t think about what happens in a greenhouse when they coined the phrase greenhouse effect.

]]> By: Laura Blanchard http://www.samizdata.net/2013/01/the-verdant-hills-and-plains-of-earth/#comment-286465 Laura Blanchard Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:44:02 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16462#comment-286465 The re-greening of America is covered (with maps) in 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, by Charles C. Mann. Here’s a link to the Kindle edition on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/1493-Uncovering-Columbus-Created-ebook/dp/B004G606EY

]]> By: John Gardner http://www.samizdata.net/2013/01/the-verdant-hills-and-plains-of-earth/#comment-286463 John Gardner Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:40:20 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16462#comment-286463 Hmmm. President Reagan was laughed at when he said he’d thought for some time that much of the increase in smog was due to the abundance of trees vs. pre-Gold Rush California.

]]> By: Cornfed http://www.samizdata.net/2013/01/the-verdant-hills-and-plains-of-earth/#comment-286461 Cornfed Thu, 31 Jan 2013 02:37:39 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16462#comment-286461 True, that, about crop monocultures replacing complex ecosystems. However, in developed countries, there’s a great deal of land being taken out of cultivation and returned to a more natural state. In developing countries, that’s where most of the ecosystem degradation is occurring.

]]> By: cthulhu http://www.samizdata.net/2013/01/the-verdant-hills-and-plains-of-earth/#comment-286448 cthulhu Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:49:41 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16462#comment-286448 It should be noted that the earth becoming greener is not necessarily good news when the topic is ecosystem destruction — not only are there desert ecosystems, but expansion of agricultural lands tends to crowd out complex existing environments with single crops.

That said, I have little love for environmental fascists who want everything run to their dictates in the name of “Mother Gaia”.

]]> By: Glenzo http://www.samizdata.net/2013/01/the-verdant-hills-and-plains-of-earth/#comment-286447 Glenzo Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:47:31 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16462#comment-286447 But with all of this vegetation, we will all be sorry when the dinosaurs come back and eat us.

]]> By: Orson http://www.samizdata.net/2013/01/the-verdant-hills-and-plains-of-earth/#comment-286426 Orson Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:51:28 +0000 http://www.samizdata.net/?p=16462#comment-286426 There is a book in this thesis. But who will be so boldly contrarian to pull it off? And withstand all the PC apocalypse caterwauling?

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