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Related: About this forumClimate change will ruin Christmas by threatening Christmas trees
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It will take six to 10 years, but Christmas is ruined and not for the reasons Sarah Palin thinks. Climate change is continuing its rampage through everything you love by threatening Christmas trees. (Actually, maybe this will finally get the GOP on board with fixing climate change.)
This year was so bad for Christmas tree growers, what with heat waves and flash floods and whatnot, that a bunch of them have decided that theyre not going to plant new crops. Trees, being trees, take a while to mature, so there are still a few years of tree crops on these farms waiting to get chopping down and trucked to living rooms across America. But once theyre done, thats it.
Think Progress reports:
Though the young trees some growing for a few years had been able to withstand the warmer temperatures in late winter, they were unable to hold up to the subsequent flooding in the summer, tree farmer Bob White told the station. It probably took out as much as half the farm, he said. You get used to 20, 30 years of how everything works, and now you dont know anymore.
This is the first year that localized extreme flooding has been said to cause a decrease in Christmas tree crop, and scientists have repeatedly linked increased unexpected flooding events caused by a warmer, moister climate to man-made global warming.
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Climate change will ruin Christmas by threatening Christmas trees (Original Post)
xchrom
Dec 2013
OP
Well, I guess that is the end of my big green toilet brush of an artificial tree.
Throckmorton
Dec 2013
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Auggie
(31,173 posts)1. This has got to be a joke
A Christmas without trees? The horror!
Climate Change will touch every living thing on earth.
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)2. Well, this proves that climate change is an evil atheist plot
It's all a devious part of the WoX (War on Xmas)!
Throckmorton
(3,579 posts)3. Well, I guess that is the end of my big green toilet brush of an artificial tree.
Maybe the aluminium trees from the 60's will make a comeback.