You really have a knack for picking out the very thing you are guilty of and projecting it on me....maybe that is how you have managed to remain so clueless.
And it is the childish mind that rejects hard evidence (what I provide) in favor of what he believes (your opinion pieces based on not the first shred of observed, measured, quantified evidence).
“We’re adrift in a really bad situation right now. Trees that are 20 to 30 to 80 to 100 years old are starting to go away. It’s just simply too many years continuous dry,” Nickerson said.
Yeah...I read that...and unlike you, think deeply enough to actually know what it means....if a region is known historically to have periods of drought that last hundreds of years....how much time do you think might pass between those periods...we are after all, talking about periods of time that span multiple generations in human time...do you think it might be normal for 20 years.....30 years....even a hundred years or more to pass between periods of drought? We know the periods of drought have lasted from 100 to 300 years in that geographical region...so a period of a hundred years between such periods would not be unusual would it...or even more...after all, the area isn't really in a period of drought any way...the native plants and animals are doing just fine....it is just bad enough to kill off non native species which wouldn't qualify as actual drought anyway.
This isn't rocket science...are you really this unable to look at the actual facts and compare them to historical records (which are no secret) and understand that claims of disaster are nothing more than hype?
"Nickerson said the drought has already been underway for a decade, despite a couple of wet years. But it was accelerated by last year’s record-breaking high temperatures, which helped spark the worst wildfire season in state history. Fires raged across north-central Nebraska and destroyed thousands of acres of the native Pine Ridge Forest near Chadron.
First off, there is no drought....AGAIN...the native plants and animals are doing OK...like I said, if you could look at the planting guide from the university you linked to, I will bet you that the recommendations are native plants..which are adapted to the area and will do fine since the area is not experiencing actual drought but a natural dry period which the native plants have adapted to survive... And more importantly, the region is known to have actual periods of deep drought lasting hundreds of years....so what actual rational, scientifically valid inference do you think you can make from a mere 10 year dry period?
And the temperatures last year were not record breaking...unless you are talking about the record amount of data tampering... Let me take a break and provide you with some actual temperature data rather than the breathless claims of "record breaking heat"....
Today, July 27 is day 209. Looking at the weather for Hartington NE for today, we see that the high temperature for today is 86F. The above graph shows us that in 1936, today was about 102F. Now take a look at the next graph...
How many days do you see temperatures over 100 here in 2016...the claimed hottest year EVAH?....looks like the number is zero to me....but how many days over 100 degrees did the area have over 100 degrees back during the actual hottest year ever recorded in the area?
And here...just one more for fun...as if facts will ever penetrate that brain of yours or alter what you believe. This graph shows that the hottest days in Harrington are almost 10F cooler here in 2016...the so called hottest year EVAH...than they are back in 1936
Question...how much actual evidence of the fraud that is going on with the temperature record would be required to get you to admit that you have been misled?...is there any amount of data that could bring such a reaction about in you?
"In the matter of five short decades, we’ve seen our timber land base go from 250,000 acres of live, green viable forest to something less than 100,000 acres, probably more around 80,000 to 90,000 acres left," Northwest District Forester Doak Nickerson said about the Pine Ridge Forest in Northwestern Nebraska.
Forests of non native trees? Do you ever use your brain?
“After smoke cleared in 2012, we dropped our forestland acreage to about 40 percent of what it was historically. That’s how bad it is. We are literally losing this forest resource right in front of our very eyes,” Nickerson said. "
Sad that they didn't consider the natural climate patterns of the region before they planted all those non native trees.
Then too, you seem to think that until all plant life dies off, or the animals all die (and some will survive) there is no drought. Kind of like your belief that as long as there is a sheet of ice on the waters of the Arctic the ice is not melting. However, you are too arrogant to see the simplistic idiocy of your beliefs.
Again...you are not reading for comprehension...when the native plants and animals start dying off from lack of water, then you can say the area is experiencing actual drought... They are adapted to the climate and until they are deeply affected by the lack of water, the area isn't experiencing real drought. And again, what do you suppose the ice in the arctic looked like during the holocene optimum?....the minoan warm period?...the roman warm period?....the medieval warm period?....my bet is that the ice completely melted during the holocene, and perhaps the minoan warm period and covered a far smaller area than the present during the roman warm period and was considerably smaller during the medieval warm period....
the point being that melting arctic ice is not unusual...in fact, if you look at the history of the earth, ice at both poles is the anomaly...not the norm...a rational person would be more concerned that there was ice at the poles than that there was not.....if the climate were all you were concerned with.
As to your oyster story, and yet another new subject you have introduced, it does not prove the ocean is not subject to acidification:
What do you suppose the pH of the oceans were just prior to the onset of the ice age that the earth is still warming out of....when CO2 levels were in excess of 1000ppm?...acidification is just more bullshit, hyperventilating, hysterical handwaving by people with a political agenda...and you gobble it right up and believe it all like the great unwashed have always believed the high priests of their religions....
Then too, and you will actually have to read the article to see this, it was the Native oysters that were preferred for their taste. The Pacific Oyster just grew bigger, and faster. Even so, the native Oyster (Olympia Oyster) was virtually destroyed by mans habits such as this:
"Researchers speculate that the remaining Olympia oyster populations may have succumbed to increased silt generated by 20th-century logging and mill operations, which either killed them outright or covered their beds and destroyed their habitat. They have not returned in discernible numbers to Oregon estuaries."
And yet again...nothing whatsoever to do with climate change...and an issue that will not be truly dealt with till the climate change scam is finally swept off into the dustbin of history.