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Post by coolplanet on Apr 28, 2013 14:52:10 GMT -5
The Beetles Are Coming ~ Pine Beetle Destroys BC Forest Peter Jackson, a meteorologist in Prince George B.C., couldn’t believe what he was seeing on his radar screen. It was like a rainstorm, but thicker, and it was crossing east over the Rocky Mountains. It looked a little like insect swarms, except insects had never been seen at such high altitudes before. Farmers on the eastern slope of the Rockies described huge clouds of insects. They could hear them pinging off their steel roofs. The swarms were so dense they gummed up the windshield wipers on the farmers’ vehicles. This was this first attack of the Mountain Pine Beetle east of the Rocky Mountains… the year when the unthinkable actually happened: carried along by the prevailing winds, trillions of Mountain Pine Beetles crossed the Rocky Mountains from BC into Alberta. Now, the great Northern Boreal Forest, one of the world’s richest ecosystems and one of its greatest carbon sinks, was face to face with a grave threat – a plague of insects, each the size of a grain of rice. Posted by Peter Sinclair on April 28, 2013 climatecrocks.com/2013/04/28/the-weekend-wonk-beetle-mania-in-british-columbia/
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Post by csmonut on Apr 29, 2013 16:04:39 GMT -5
This is just sad.
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