Comments on: Global Warming Creates Crabgrass Menace

By: Crabgrass Haiku | The Blackboard

Crabgrass Haiku | The Blackboard — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:02:58 +0000

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By: Mary Hinge

Mary Hinge — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:52:16 +0000

I think Homer J got it right!
“”It’s just got a bad name is all. Everyone would love it if it had a cute name like, Elf Grass.”

By: Mike Smith

Mike Smith — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:40:42 +0000

Global warming…. Is there anything it can’t do?

By: William Langston

William Langston — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:53:19 +0000

I have been reading this article with a smile on my face. I raise cattle and my pastures have various clovers, fescue, rye, bermuda johnsongrass and crabgrass so my cows have a choice and without a doubt they *love* crabgrass above all the rest!

Let it come!

Yours truly,
William Langston

By: jeez

jeez — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:40:17 +0000

Ok, you two really got a laugh out of me on that one. Born 1958.

By: AnonyMoose

AnonyMoose — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:37:42 +0000

What’s the effect of global warming on Triffids?

Global warming must be awful for Triffids, as I haven’t seen any around here for well over two decades.

By: Kevin B

Kevin B — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:03:18 +0000

The really urgent question we need answered is :

What’s the effect of global warming on Triffids?

(One for the oldies there.)

By: Bill Illis

Bill Illis — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:55:12 +0000

These arguments are getting sillier and sillier.

Think of an area 100 miles south of you where it is 2.0C warmer on average. Does grass grow there? Does crab grass take over normal grass at the equator? Obviously, there is no disaster there.

There is city about 60 miles away from where I live and thanks to geography and typical weather patterns, this city is about 2.0C warmer than mine on average.

When someone says global warming is such a problem, I always say “So what, we’ll end up with the climate of City X? Big deal.” They always get a confused look on their face for awhile and then eventually laugh, realizing grass still grows in City X and everything will probably be fine if we have the climate of City X.

By: John-X

John-X — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:29:13 +0000

Check it out, the “crabgrass menace” already on the Master List of Things Caused by Global Warming, right after “cougar attacks”

http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm

By: Evan Jones

Evan Jones — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:03:22 +0000

Pam is murdering Our Friend, the Blackberry!

By: Evan Jones

Evan Jones — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:54:11 +0000

Save the Crabgrass!

This UC Irvine study with heat lamps on grass plots seems to be almost at a science fair level.

Sounds an awful lot like what they do to surface stations.

By: Bruce Cobb

Bruce Cobb — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:47:02 +0000

The AGW alarmists are really grasping at straws now, in a desperate, last-ditch effort to alarm people, and to keep the AGW gravy train rolling along for at least a while longer while they milk every cent out of it they can.
We don’t have lawn, just mowed green stuff, which only gets mowed about once a month in the summer, using a DR field and brush mower. We use no chemicals, nor do we water.
Worrying about weeds in lawns is just further proof that AGWers are not actual environmentalists. The environmental movement has been hijacked.

By: Global Warming Now Causes Crabgrass | Skeptics Global Warming

Global Warming Now Causes Crabgrass | Skeptics Global Warming — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:30:21 +0000

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By: CKMoore

CKMoore — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:33:53 +0000

How do heat lamps simulate global warming? Wouldn’t they simulate additional solar radiation instead?

I thought we were instructed to ignore solar radiation as having any connection to global warming.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:30:54 +0000

Crab grass sprouts when soil temperatures reach 55-60 degrees in the spring. So if it warms faster in the spring, crab grass sprouts early. This year in New York, May was chilly and the crab grass is non-existant. Nothing but lush fescue.