Excerpt from Nature 463, 713 (11 February 2010):
"Climate warming could exacerbate species invasions and their often-negative ecological impacts if non-native plants continue to respond better to changing conditions, a study warns.
Using a 150-year record of seasonal plant data started by US poet and naturalist Henry David Thoreau, Charles Davis at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and his colleagues analysed the long-term changes in the flowering times of native and non-native plants in Concord, Massachusetts, near where Thoreau lived."
The arrogance to think that with a 150-year record of seasonal plant data these scientists could know ANYTHING about millions of years of species and ecosystems interaction with their environment and climate.
If you really want the solution, start listening to the few remaining wild trees, rocks and streams. They are the only ones that can teach you.
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Well, yes and no. Isnt it a good thing that they are trying to do something, based on what they have got? since the information from 150 years ago exists, why not use it to point out a recent trend, at any rate?
CFT
I see your point, but I really don't class what they are doing as "something". What other proof do we need that civilisation is destroying the planet? The time to prove there is a problem has passed, as has the time to examine what the problem is. It is time for action.
i never learnt how to speak wild tree, rock or stream :-(
oh and wasnt ddt the result of people trying to do something based on what they have got..? for example
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