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Originally posted by rallem:
I just got into work vump with a nom for Red Dwarf.

I have something to say and ask, in the turn of the twentieth century Vermont had one of the oldest rain forests in the world but it was sacrificed for the steam engine and 98% of all trees were cut down. For a good part of the twentieth century Vermont was ideal grazing land for sheep because it was all rolling grass land, but then the trees started coming back with a vengeance and the forest is almost as thick as before, except the trees aren't as old and some types of trees which were native here cannot grow back because of diseases like the elm. The thing which is prompting me to say this is that when I was in the Northwest Territory of Canada they were so very proud of their rain forest and said the definition of a rain forest is that it creates its own weather pattern, or that it creates its own rain. In Vermont we have lots of rain. During the big drought of the early 1990s it rained almost every day and my coworkers from New Hampshire were jealous, and this last June it rained 25 out of 30 days. I do not have the statistics for this month but it has rained almost every day, so I was wondering how is it known if it is the forest making the rain, or the lake, or if we have been just unlucky with weather patterns for the last decade or more?

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Originally posted by Raycheetah:

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Originally posted by rallem:
I just got into work vump with a nom for Red Dwarf.

I have something to say and ask, in the turn of the twentieth century Vermont had one of the oldest rain forests in the world but it was sacrificed for the steam engine and 98% of all trees were cut down. For a good part of the twentieth century Vermont was ideal grazing land for sheep because it was all rolling grass land, but then the trees started coming back with a vengeance and the forest is almost as thick as before, except the trees aren't as old and some types of trees which were native here cannot grow back because of diseases like the elm. The thing which is prompting me to say this is that when I was in the Northwest Territory of Canada they were so very proud of their rain forest and said the definition of a rain forest is that it creates its own weather pattern, or that it creates its own rain. In Vermont we have lots of rain. During the big drought of the early 1990s it rained almost every day and my coworkers from New Hampshire were jealous, and this last June it rained 25 out of 30 days. I do not have the statistics for this month but it has rained almost every day, so I was wondering how is it known if it is the forest making the rain, or the lake, or if we have been just unlucky with weather patterns for the last decade or more?

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Heyya, Rallem!

Here's a quote from Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_forest

"A natural rainforest emits and absorbs vast quantities of carbon dioxide. On a global scale, long-term fluxes are approximately in balance, so that an undisturbed rainforest would have a small net impact on atmospheric carbon dioxide levels,[3] though they may have other climatic effects (on cloud formation, for example, by recycling water vapour). No rainforest today can be considered to be undisturbed.[4] Human induced deforestation plays a significant role in causing rainforests to release carbon dioxide,[5] as do natural processes such as drought that result in tree death.[6] Some climate models run with interactive vegetation predict a large loss of Amazonian rainforest around 2050 due to drought, leading to forest dieback and the subsequent feedback of releasing more carbon dioxide.[7]"

I hope that helps answer your question, VOMP!

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Thanks Raycheetah, but I sort of knew the Vermont forest could not be considered an untouched rain forest since 98% of all of the trees in Vermont when it was a rain forest had been cut down, but I was wondering if it can become one again and if so when. It seems like we've received more than our fair share of rain and snow, and in the not so far past we have been able to tell if rain or snow was from another region or if it were lake effect rain or snow. If our forest were to gain the ability to make it's own weather then how would we know the difference of that and lake effect weather?



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