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I heard that Manhattan, New York City, only stays healthy because of the trees in Central Park. Is like a vital biological filter for the city and oxygen supply.

Fewer trees, less rain: study uncovers deforestation equation
By Richard Macey
March 4, 2005

Australian scientists say they have found proof that cutting down forests reduces rainfall.

The finding, independent of previous anecdotal evidence and computer modelling, uses physics and chemistry to show how the climate changes when forests are lost.........

TREES BRING RAIN in DESERTS
October 02, 2006 by
Pratanu Banerjee

Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists have found that trees in a dense forest of Oman have an unusual way to water themselves by extracting moisture from low-lying clouds. Professor Elfatih A.B. Eltahir of civil and environmental engineering have found that
the trees have preserved an ecological niche in an area characterized mostly by desert. The plants exploit a wispy thin source of water that occurs seasonally. The forest could be driven to extinction if camel continue to graze frequently. As the forest disappears, the trees will lose the ability to pull water from the mist and recharge underground reservoirs.

All but the most arid desert lands support life that is frequently abundant and well adapted to the scarcity of water and the daytime heat.
Desert plants have evolved ways of conserving and efficiently using the water available to them. Some flowering desert plants are ephemeral; they live for a few days at most. Their seeds lie dormant in the soil, sometimes for years, until a soaking rain enables them to germinate and quickly bloom. Woody desert plants either have long root systems that reach deep water sources or have spreading shallow roots that are able to take up surface moisture quickly from heavy dews and occasional rains. Desert plants usually have small leaves. This conserves water by reducing surface area from which transpiration can take place. Other plants drop their leaves during the dry period. The process of photosynthesis—by which sunlight is converted to energy and usually conducted primarily in leaves—is taken over in the desert by the stems. A number of desert plants are succulents, storing water in leaves, stems, and roots. Thorns, which are modified leaves, serve to guard the water from animal invaders. These plants may take in and store carbon dioxide only at night; during the day their stomata, or pores, are closed to prevent evaporation. Desert plants growing on saline soils may concentrate salt in their sap and then secrete the salt through their leaves.
Burning and overgrazing of semiarid lands on the periphery of deserts can irreversibly damage the plants that concentrate moisture and hold the soil together, thus enabling deserts to encroach on arable land. This encroachment, a serious world problem, is called desertification. A 1984 report of a desertification study made for the United Nations stated that 35 percent of the earth’s land surface was at least threatened by such processes.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the world’s leading research universities, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1865 the school was opened in Boston by geologist William Barton Rogers, who became its first president.

ice caps are melting faster than the models show that they should.

And antarctic ice is growing faster than models predict! Perhaps we should not base our judgment on models as they have never been proven to be correct (and IMO never will be)

“Global Cooling” Was Just as Realistic: Several publications warned in the 1970s that global cooling posed a major threat to the food supply. Now, remarkably, global warming is also considered a threat to the very same food supply.

Glaciers Are Growing or Shrinking: The media continue to point to glaciers as a sign of climate change, but they have used them as examples of both cooling and warming.

Global Warming History Ignored: The media treat global warming like it’s a new idea. In fact, British amateur meteorologist G. S. Callendar argued that mankind was responsible for heating up the planet with carbon dioxide emissions – in 1938. That was decades before scientists and journalists alerted the public about the threat of a new ice age.

New York Times the Worst: Longtime readers of the Times could easily recall the paper claiming “A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable,” along with its strong support of current global warming predictions. Older readers might well recall two other claims of a climate shift back to the 1800s – one an ice age and the other warming again. The Times has warned of four separate climate changes since 1895.

My question is always WHO ALL are gaining out of this Global Warming scare...

I have some personal answers already and don't buy into this theory.... for it is merely a theory.... like evolution... a theory.... put out as science. The pattern is so familiar.

Just being alive produces CO2. Too many of us alive? .... Man and animal included?.... Then the pragmatic view must be to reduce living creatures.... abort man before he is born because it is called murder after he is born... and control farmer's who have these mindless methane producing creatures... cows.... do everything opposite to how nature does it and expect to increasingly prosper.......and... and.... and..........

Insanity dressed as science.

Same with evolution vs "alternatives", and I can not believe that God would deceive us with planted, consistent, and logical evidence of evolution.

The CO2 a creature produces is part of a natural cycle and will go back into the food plants it needs, but digging up fossil carbon and burning it is not natural. Even without warming we are poisoning (with CO2) and overfishing our oceans, both of which are only possible with fossil fuel.
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