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The current trees are under pressure from drought and increased temperature caused by global warming. They don’t regrow after fires at the rate they did in the
by syki 5y ago
The current trees are under pressure from drought and increased temperature caused by global warming. They don’t regrow after fires at the rate they did in the recent past. Not enough time has passed for adaptation to take hold. The sudden increase in green house gasses is such that plants and animals haven’t had enough time to adapt. Eventually an equilibrium will be reached and things will stabilize. We aren’t at that point yet. The plants around millions of years ago during warmer periods than now are not the same plants today for the most part. They were suited for the environment at that time.
- Lammy 5y ago> The sudden increase in green house gasses is such that plants [...] haven’t had enough time to adapt. It does sound contradictory when said like this imo. Isn't plant growth the whole point of a greenhouse?
- ceejayoz 5y agoGreenhouses have a human to open the windows when they get too hot in the peak of summer.
- errcorrectcode 5y agoI barely escaped the 2018 Paradise Camp Fire. It hadn't rained for 200+ days, was very windy, dry, and cold. I think NorCal, and much of the world, is slowly desertifying if climate change continues.