Comments on: The High Costs of Doing Nothing, Part III http://climateprogress.org/2008/01/15/cost-of-inaction-global-warming/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:38:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Dano http://climateprogress.org/2008/01/15/cost-of-inaction-global-warming/#comment-8112 Dano Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:24:15 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/01/15/cost-of-inaction-global-warming/#comment-8112 The phrase Cables uses is partially true, which is appealing to the rubes. Beetle kill has always happened, but is almost always because of an environmental stressor. In this case, climate in the Front Range and Rockies has changed. Plus, the forests in BC are ahead of the US, and Canada started cutting down dead trees years ago, precipitating the 'softwood lumber war' that the US media painted as evil Canada and barely mentioned the reason why Canada had so much lumber. Well, here is the US in the same boat - lots of standing dead stems without a market. Justice? Best, D The phrase Cables uses is partially true, which is appealing to the rubes. Beetle kill has always happened, but is almost always because of an environmental stressor. In this case, climate in the Front Range and Rockies has changed.

Plus, the forests in BC are ahead of the US, and Canada started cutting down dead trees years ago, precipitating the ’softwood lumber war’ that the US media painted as evil Canada and barely mentioned the reason why Canada had so much lumber.

Well, here is the US in the same boat – lots of standing dead stems without a market. Justice?

Best,

D

]]> By: Jay Alt http://climateprogress.org/2008/01/15/cost-of-inaction-global-warming/#comment-8104 Jay Alt Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:14:46 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/01/15/cost-of-inaction-global-warming/#comment-8104 Notice that Regional Forest Supervisor Rick Cables preaches right from the Frank Luntz playbook - <i>" Cables, however, emphasized that what is occurring is in many ways a natural event, fueled in part by uniformly older lodgepole forests and the role of the beetle in thinning."</i> Yeah, right. Whole forests always die off together. http://climateprogress.org/2008/01/14/chapter-five-excerpt-how-climate-rhetoric-trumps-climate-reality-2/ Notice that Regional Forest Supervisor Rick Cables preaches right from the Frank Luntz playbook -

” Cables, however, emphasized that what is occurring is in many ways a natural event, fueled in part by uniformly older lodgepole forests and the role of the beetle in thinning.”

Yeah, right. Whole forests always die off together.

http://climateprogress.org/ 2008/ 01/ 14/ chapter-five-excerpt-how-climate-rhetoric-trumps-climate-reality-2/

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