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It's like this in parts of Germany as well. Really scary.
by bristleworm 7y ago
It's like this in parts of Germany as well. Really scary.
- masklinn 7y agoAlso this is not helped by spruce bark beetle outbreaks, which seem to be worse on warm years.
- linuxlizard 7y agoUSA. I see this in Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Was just in Oregon, along the Columbia River gorge. Large streaks of dead trees through the lush forests.
- jbeales 7y agoA lot of this is Mountain Pine Beetle[1] though. [1] https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/our-natural-resources/forests-and-forestry/wildland-fires-insects-and-disturbances/top-forest-insects-and-diseases-canada/mountain-pine-beetle/13381 https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/our-natural-resources/forests-and-fo...
- ridewinter 7y agoWhich is exasperated by warming temperatures. Or to be precise, less bitter cold temps in the winter that control the beetle populations.
- sgc 7y agoVery few organisms die from a 1-3 degree change in average temperature (some important ones, like coral, do). The majority of biological failures we will be seeing more of over the next 100 years will be due to issues with 1-2 week extremes - either heat waves, insufficient cold extremes, or large storms from excessive evaporation, etc. Then these failures with radiate throughout the food chain when the weakest link disappears. So this mechanism of failure is not an outlier, but the normal face of climate change effects.
- iSnow 7y agoYeah, lots of pines are brown in southern German woods, and even beech trees are affected (they have deeper roots). I haven't seen something like this.