Many plants, particularly conifers, emit abundant terpenes, especially in
hot weather. When combined with pollution, terpenes radically increase
ozone to levels considered dangerous. This is probably why Ronald Reagan
told the tree huggers that trees pollute.

I was a greenie, 1976-84, during which time I personally planted 1,000
trees. Of course, this area at the time was exurbia, not urban, and now I
guess you'd call it somewhere between suburbia and exurbia, altho this
particular valley is still mostly agri. I wonder how much my efforts have
contributed and will contribute to pollution. Maybe should've left the
area remain as meadow.

On Nov 13, 11:22*am, Way Back Jack wrote:
Many plants, particularly conifers, emit abundant terpenes, especially in
hot weather. *When combined with pollution, terpenes radically increase
ozone to levels considered dangerous. *This is probably why Ronald Reagan
told the tree huggers that trees pollute.

I was a greenie, 1976-84, during which time I personally planted 1,000
trees. *Of course, this area at the time was exurbia, not urban, and now I
guess you'd call it somewhere between suburbia and exurbia, altho this
particular valley is still mostly agri. *I wonder how much my efforts have
contributed and will contribute to pollution. *Maybe should've left the
area remain as meadow.

The arrogance of man..... to think that they can plant a few trees and
gain enlightenment from it.

yum, ozone; of course, if you really want to taste it,
stand on a hill in a lightening storm.

it is cetainly true, that the active forms of oxygen
-- I've read that it can or has go all the way
to O_21, or some such number --
are free-radically.

thus:
I am no longer going to reply directly to you-know-of-whom, or
to anyone who is so confarned lonely as to reply
to it, ever, again.

on the other hand, there are many ways to see that
the climate is changing very rapidly, if not to make-out
The 'global' warming analogy;
it's just a crappy metaphor, circa 1896.

Way Back Jack said:

I was a greenie, 1976-84, during which time I personally planted 1,000
trees. Of course, this area at the time was exurbia, not urban, and now I
guess you'd call it somewhere between suburbia and exurbia, altho this
particular valley is still mostly agri. I wonder how much my efforts have
contributed and will contribute to pollution. Maybe should've left the
area remain as meadow.

I'd worry more that you contributed to the loss of meadow habitat. In one
park I used to visit a lot (before I moved here) the meadows were slowly
being swallowed up by woodlands. What happens to the bobolinks,
meadowlarks, and grasshopper sparrows then?

Some people are too fond of trees.

--
Pat in Plymouth MI

"Yes, swooping is bad."

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Pat Kiewicz wrote:

Way Back Jack said:

I was a greenie, 1976-84, during which time I personally planted 1,000
trees. Of course, this area at the time was exurbia, not urban, and now I
guess you'd call it somewhere between suburbia and exurbia, altho this
particular valley is still mostly agri. I wonder how much my efforts have
contributed and will contribute to pollution. Maybe should've left the
area remain as meadow.

I'd worry more that you contributed to the loss of meadow habitat. In one
park I used to visit a lot (before I moved here) the meadows were slowly
being swallowed up by woodlands. What happens to the bobolinks,
meadowlarks, and grasshopper sparrows then?

Some people are too fond of trees.

Only 500 years ago, the land we call the United States was covered with
over 1 billion acres of pristine ancient, virgin, and native forests. A
squirrel could travel from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River
without touching the ground!
http://www.saveamericasforests.org/pages/educationafc.htm

[A]ccording to local lore, a squirrel could travel from Maine to Texas
without touching the ground.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/da-natchez-trace.html

One thousands trees is just a drop of water on a hot rock in an
environmental sense.

--
Welcome to the New America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg
or
E Pluribus Unum
Next time vote Green Party