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I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« on: February 24, 2017, 03:11:05 PM »
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I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed


I am floored. This person is supposed to be fairly smart, but dismisses climate science as not real because people can only observe what they know in their lifetime. He said Indians burned all the trees to plant their vast corn fields. And that is why the land was flat when Columbus got here. So climate change isn't real since a volcano can pollute as much as a factory. Omg...

Then he said he agreed with Bannon about tearing the government apart and wants to move the Capitol to the middle of the country to get away from the swamp in Washington.

I have been shaking my head since lunch. Wow.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028703890

Cool story bro. BTW, ever heard of tree farms?
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2017, 03:15:54 PM »
Yet liberals deny science when it comes to gender.
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2017, 03:30:57 PM »
Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on February 24, 2017, 03:15:54 PM
Yet liberals deny science when it comes to gender.

 :-)  It's just a ridiculous thing to observe.  The, over-the-top demands to acknowledge something they cannot maintain a consistent position on.  Or, as we have known for quite some time.....

....something something insanity.

Poor, confused primitives.  Unable to comprehend the complexities of the most simple provided for existence, protected and paid for by those they despise.
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2017, 05:29:44 PM »
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2017, 06:37:14 PM »
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Response to sarah FAILIN (Original post)Fri Feb 24, 2017, 04:01 PM
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6. What An Idiot. Here Is An Anecdote About His Bullshit.

The anecdote that I have heard is closer to the truth. The story is that when Columbus landed that the forest was so thick that a squirrel could go from tree to tree to the Mississippi without touching the ground.

I am from Illinois and used to go with my dad when he hunted and helped look for mushrooms in the 1950's. The woods were really thick in our area around the Sangamon River. And when you go to New Salem State Park and go down near the river there it is thick thick woods.

Even during Lincoln's time there was thick rain forest conditions. It was hot and humid in the summer and it rained a lot. So that person is so full of it.

In fact even now there are areas in Illinois that have dense thickets of forest. And look at Appalachia and the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Back in the days when Bob himself could hop from limb to limb on his two good feet. 

It's nice to see Bob replying to someone else's thread, engaging with his fellow man instead of just posting one of his own unhinged OPs that get no replies
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2017, 07:21:35 PM »
I don't know about that but I do now that the CO2 count on the west coast is higher than the CO2 count on the east. This is a good indicator that the USA is a net deductor of CO2 in the atmosphere.
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2017, 08:14:46 PM »
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6. What An Idiot. Here Is An Anecdote About His Bullshit.

The anecdote that I have heard is closer to the truth. The story is that when Columbus landed that the forest was so thick that a squirrel could go from tree to tree to the Mississippi without touching the ground.

I am from Illinois and used to go with my dad when he hunted and helped look for mushrooms in the 1950's. The woods were really thick in our area around the Sangamon River. And when you go to New Salem State Park and go down near the river there it is thick thick woods.

Even during Lincoln's time there was thick rain forest conditions. It was hot and humid in the summer and it rained a lot. So that person is so full of it.

In fact even now there are areas in Illinois that have dense thickets of forest. And look at Appalachia and the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Oh, that would place you around Springfield, land of retarded shit.  I guarantee you, asswipe, that the Shawnee, THAT I ****ING LIVE IN, is thicker and healthier than ever.

Rain forest?!?!?!?

Jesus H. Christ.............  Do you know the difference between Coniferous, Deciduous and Tropical, you ass?  :thatsright:  Yeah, .... science, baby.  You fvcking tard.
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #7 on: February 24, 2017, 08:31:39 PM »
Here's another shocker for the DUmbass little goons: 

There is almost exactly the same amount of water on earth now as there was on the day of creation.     
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #8 on: February 24, 2017, 08:52:06 PM »
Great, an "anecdote" from DUmmy #1 of 2016.  Not believable as expected.

Next thing one knows, "it" will claim they earned 7 Pearl Hearts in Vietnam.
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #9 on: February 24, 2017, 11:12:30 PM »
Quote from: Undies on February 24, 2017, 08:31:39 PM
Here's another shocker for the DUmbass little goons: 

There is almost exactly the same amount of water on earth now as there was on the day of creation.     

 :rotf:

Yeah ........... those Laws of Thermodynamics.

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The law of conservation of energy.

This states that energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

What a bitch, (D)Umb****s....
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #10 on: February 25, 2017, 08:57:57 AM »
A new motto perhaps?    DU, where science facts become science fiction.   Or DU, where facts go to die.

For our next adventure into alternative facts, someone needs to start a thread at the DUmp on how Native Americans wrote the Constitution.  http://www.cracked.com/article_19864_6-ridiculous-lies-you-believe-about-founding-america.html

Just don't mention the part about the Native's killing all the trees.... :popcorn:
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #11 on: February 25, 2017, 03:32:19 PM »
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6. Even during Lincoln's time there was thick rain forest conditions.

So Hopalong, if I understand you correctly.  They only started to have winter in Illinois since the 1950's hence your tropical forest is now gone.  If it was getting warmer then that would help your so called Illinois tropical forest.  Your discussion makes no sense there Bob.
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2017, 04:37:19 PM »
The DUmmie seem to ignore the fact that Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are prairie lands and had many wide open stretches of non-forest area.

They also ignore the fact that many of the indian tribes also farmed and one of their ways of getting farmland, was to burn forests.

American Indians were not as environmentally friendly as liberals like to think.
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #13 on: February 25, 2017, 06:05:12 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on February 25, 2017, 04:37:19 PM
The DUmmie seem to ignore the fact that Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are prairie lands and had many wide open stretches of non-forest area.

They also ignore the fact that many of the indian tribes also farmed and one of their ways of getting farmland, was to burn forests.

American Indians were not as environmentally friendly as liberals like to think.

The nomadic tribes, as a general practice, would stay in one place until the land was barren and dead of resources, and then move to the next fertile acres.  They were "one with nature"?  Hardly. 
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #14 on: February 25, 2017, 09:59:08 PM »
Well, there's trees everywhere I look but then I'm not in Hanceville, AL - the nasty tab must have been on a break from the REHAU plant, word gets around in such a small town.
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #15 on: February 27, 2017, 02:36:30 AM »
Quote from: Undies on February 24, 2017, 08:31:39 PM
Here's another shocker for the DUmbass little goons: 

There is almost exactly the same amount of water on earth now as there was on the day of creation.     

I have no source for this, and it's a pretty old statistic, from circa 1980 or something.

There are more deer in Nebraska than there were in 1890 when most of this state was unsettled wilderness, inhabited only by a few thousands of Native Americans in scattered tribes.

The world is always changing; I dunno why the primitives find that so difficult to believe.  The world never stays the same.
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Re: I was just told there were more trees now than when Columbus landed
« Reply #16 on: February 27, 2017, 08:42:42 AM »
Quote from: hillneck on February 25, 2017, 03:32:19 PM
So Hopalong, if I understand you correctly.  They only started to have winter in Illinois since the 1950's hence your tropical forest is now gone.  If it was getting warmer then that would help your so called Illinois tropical forest.  Your discussion makes no sense there Bob.
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