Montana is damaged

Here's more disruption:

Those are good disruptions. Not so much for the Montana forests.

Well, the planet has never been static, so you can always find things to regret. But most trends are good, in fact very good. Billions of people don't have to watch their kids die. The many predictions of impending doom that have been popular forever, especially popular lately, just aren't happening.

Some consequences of civilization are arguably bad: transporting alien species and pathogens, building dams, paving over dirt, putting out fires, pumping groundwater, plowing and planting forests. We can manage that.

Haven't happened yet.

And create Paradise, CA.

Most "managing" happens after the disaster has not only be set up, but has also occurred.

Prophetic mini-disasters don't seem to count. You have to have lots of people killed before the newspapers will splash it over the front page, and the politicians start paying attention.

And Americans don't pay attention if non-Americans get killed.

Global warming leads to more intense cyclones, and Haiyan/Yolanda in 2013 killed 6,300 but in the Philippines, where it doesn't matter.

Pay to read

Right-click, open in incognito window (Chrome). Enjoy.

--Spehro Pefhany

That fails in chrome, firefox and opera. Shame.

Maybe you can find it at a news source. The Washington Post is NOT. they aren't even a good leftist newsletter/rag hard as they may try.

WP is entirely predictable. They don't allow objectivity to interfere with their mission.

Often Firefox "private browsing window" will access paywalled stuff.

For some reason, left-wing stuff is often paywalled but conservative sites aren't.

John

They report bark beetle damage in Montana forest, years after everyone saw the same thing across the border in Canada. Yep, climate change does that, when the winter kill of parasites is no longer happening.

The forest damage is entirely predictable, and the Washington Post reported that it is being observed. There's no issue of objectivity, or interference, here; JL just pops those words in to confuse things, as is h is missioin.

The current heat wave must make those insects very happy.

Don't be silly; nurseries (unscrupulous ones) will plant you a tree, and offer a two-year warranty, because they know trees are slow to grow, and unviable ones are slow to die; it takes three or four years to kill one.

Thus, a string of four or five warm winters will endanger a forest. One season of cold isn't relevant, you nead cold every few years, repeatedly.

Paying attention to temperatures alone isn't useful; you also need to note times. Trees are like integrators, they hold history.

Yeah a hard freeze is good for keeping down the vermin (I think mostly of ticks) I'm not sure this one is going to last long enough to count as 'hard'. It's -5 (F) here now and predicted to be in the upper 40's this weekend!

George H.

John Larkin can get his right wing propaganda for free, but rational analysis of why the right-wing propaganda is misleading and deceptive takes time and costs money.

John Larkin has a rather simple-minded assessment algorithm, and his "entirely predictable" concentrates on the number of times Donald Trump is criticised, and makes no predictions about the nature of faults that are being criticised.

He wants his president to get the same kind of flattery as he feels is his due, and isn't much interested in what he might be flattered for - congratulations on persistent mendacity might be acceptable.

Conservative sites are paid for by other hidden means.

You are the product that are being sold to such conservative sites.

He is a gullible twit, who retails the nonsense he's been fed by his conservation propaganda sites, so he's probably on the more valuable end of the product range on offer, even if the product quality leaves a lot to be desired.