General Chat

The reason why trees are growing downwards now?

It would appear that trees are growing downwards instead up upwards, so research has shown recently. The theory is that they are trying to hide from the effects of climate change.

How amazing is that - it suggests that they have some form of intelligence.....!!!!!!!!!!

Oh dear... how do we get to the root of this claim?

Love

Daff xxx

*gets a shovel and starts digging*

If this is a wind-up Eldrick........................you are going in the hole!! LOL

*hides rope ladder*

*smirks at Eldrick!

Love

Daff xxx

~~Research..based?....The trees in my neighborhood look ok..you referring to trees in..rain forests?... Maybe they are going to sleep..a bit like flowers do at night..~~~

Awww is that why they are in beds then:))

Bless their little petals!

*searches for the rope ladder*

Oh dear..................deja vu *tries to fill hole in to climb back out*

I think we may lose a lot of trees because of global warming.It used to be that trees lost their leaves around October time and spent the winter resting ready to sprout some more in the spring. Now they sometimes only seem to get a couple of weeks rest.
They won't be able to keep it up for too long and loss of trees means loss of rainfall.

Actually Eldrick - on the island where I lived as a child, off the west coast of Scotland, they had palm trees. Although it is in the path of a Gulf Stream, one year they had a severe frost. When the trees grew again,the 'palm leaves' came from the base.
Julia in Derbyshire

Its those Aussies again, not content with having our sun for half a day, they want our trees now....

Sharron....................how do trees affect rainfall?

I like learning new things and find this interesting.

More seriously.... what really puzzles me, is how can people say that we are going through Global warming... and all this stuff about the thinning ozone layer? How was this measured say... 150 years ago? 2000 years ago?

There were no tools to measure it then.

What IS out there however, is evidence via literature, soil analysis etc.that the Globe has gone through many periods of weather changes... both warming and colding (I know, but I have brain cells on strike today) and that mankind has managed to survive!!

Cos the pendulum just swings back again!

What does concern me is the increased use of unrenewable fuel sources.... I feel that a lot of research in this area might have been shelved!

Love

Daff the paranoid!!

And no, I am not gonna give up my car yet, lol

xxx

Nods wisely at Kitty while handing over rope ladder.... it is called precipitation...... I think :¬s

Love

Daff xx

Thanks Daff.....................it's cooling by the way sweetie:))

*googles precipitation*

I did read someehre that we are still as a planet
emerging from the last iceage

of corse its gong to get warmer

Oops!Do you know Kitty.I have just shot my mouth off and I don't actually know the details,I just have been told they do,in a Geography class at school probably.I expect I was just stopping to put my mascara away or something when she said it.
I'm sure you would do better to look on Wikipedia than have me do the same and then give you my mangled version of what they said.
Sorry about my hasty gob,I must learn to control it.

sorry Kitty.... it's not precipitation, it's something like perspiration only not spelt with a p..........

*sulks* Last year it was allllll about Global Warming... now it's Global cooling and a new ice age dawneth... and a few years ago we were gonna be encased in ice before the 21st century... Blimey.. it didn't happen!!

And then there is Nostre Damus (sp)

xx

(ps, Thank you Kitty xxxx :¬)))

I might not know the science but I can tell you the man to read for information about the historical effects of the little ice-age and earlier global warming is Brian Fagan.

Daffy, if the cows stopped emitting noxious fumes, you would not have to worry about your car:-) lol BC XX

Does anyone think the planet is in danger, then - as in Save the Earth sort of thing...?

Thank you Sharron:)

Eldrick..................I have no idea, but I think we will wear ourselves out with worry long before the earth implodes or whatever the scientists come up with next.