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Post by kiwistonewall on Aug 25, 2010 0:24:23 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Aug 25, 2010 5:52:47 GMT
"http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/201004/s2870031.htm Central Australia is carpeted with green, thanks to recent heavy rain. Over the summer, the town of Alice Springs received more than its average rain for the year in just one week. Now the normally arid bush landscape has been transformed, and the desert is full of life."The take-away from this is that life in the Australian desert areas is adapted to drought and occasional heavy rains. So after a short period of rain " the normally arid bush landscape has been transformed, and the desert is full of life". That life was there all the time waiting for the rain. It probably took millenia to adapt to drought then brief periods of rain. So there have been millenia where drought then brief periods of rain have occurred. Therefore, there is nothing unique about the current climate in that part of Australia.
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Post by kiwistonewall on Aug 25, 2010 8:51:45 GMT
I agree. I was just illustrating that there is a short term increase in plant life at the moment, just as there was a short term decrease in the 90's observed by NASA.
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Post by hunterson on Aug 25, 2010 12:38:15 GMT
I agree. I was just illustrating that there is a short term increase in plant life at the moment, just as there was a short term decrease in the 90's observed by NASA. The annoying thing about the NASA study is that it so transparently ignores known factors for plant growth in favor of changes in CO2. CO2's seasonal dynamics are large. If CO2 was driving plant change like NASA posits, we would see it in the seasonal numbers. Instead we see.....temperature and water. But in the age of CO2, all questions are answered, 'CO2'.
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