Joshua Tree Bloom Due To Climate Change? Not So FastApparently there are those suggesting that climate change triggered this bloom. The second of the two videos already posted stated that the bloom was triggered by late summer rain and a colder than normal winter. Other articles push the climate change hypothesis. This article does a good job of debunking the climate change hypothesis by presenting lots of data.
Articles on the extraordinary bloom have seen "print" on websites ranging from National Geographic to the New Scientist. The actual scientists quoted in the coverage really do try to convey just how much we don't know about what's going on here, Cameron Barrows of UC Riverside being an excellent and circumspect example. Nonetheless most of the writers come down solidly on the conclusion that the bloom is probably a result of global warming.
It seems that it is the writers and not the scientists who push the climate change hypothesis. I noticed the same thing when I watched Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth. The facts didn't really support Gore's claims. It's really annoying when advocates take information out of context and use it to push their pet cause!
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Not So Fast!!!