The beetles wanted to get an early start, so that they wouldn’t have to listen to moron scientists in the 21st century blaming their existence on CO2.
Science and brawn are today work-ing together in systematic haste in the heart of the yellow-pine forests of Southern Oregon and Northern California to save ten billion feet of merchantable timber from the relentless ravages of the Western pine beetle, writes the New York “Outlook.” Dur- the last ten years this tiny beetle (Dendroctonus brevicomis) has de- stroyed a total of 1,500,000,000 feet of timber in unquestionably the finest stand of yellow pine on the Pacific coast of the United States.
Who are you?
Why isn’t any information about your identity available on the web? If such information is available, where is it?
Do you conceal your identity to hide your sources of income?
Are you a single guy, or a bunch of guys hired by ExxonMobil to write oil corporation propaganda under a false name?
Hmmm… Here is another post from yesterday
http://www.real-science.com/why-i-do-this
BTW – your post was slightly off-topic. What do you think about the newspaper article?
Leland Palmer.
Are you the fictional character from Twin Peaks? If not, who are you really?
Are you hiding your identity to conceal your real sources of income? Do you work for Exxon Mobil and are somehow embarassed about that?
And finally, what the heck do any of your questions have to do with the 1924 article on the pine beetle that was referenced??
And why do you think that article was ExxonMobil propaganda? When did they get into the pine beetle business – I missed that.
In the 1980′s it was acid rain linked to pine beetle infestations and in 1997 one outbreak was blamed on radiation from the oak Ridge facility.
Before emissions controlled pine beetle populations they just varied over a large range due to a whole bunch of natural variables– but that was a long time ago (sarc)
Pine beetles are good for the environment because they kill off the junk pine trees and provide nutrients in the soil for real trees! Oak, Maple, Hickory, Poplar, Cherry, Black Walnut
Q: Why does a pine-forest smells of pine-trees ?
A: Chemical communication !
Old pine forest committing collective suicide (by chemical communication) to make room for a new generation by throwing the cones on the ground, then the pine beetles starts as a helping process, finaly the dead forest waiting for a fire to release the seeds from the cones.
Pine beetles only attack ‘dead trees’.