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Old 07-18-07, 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by DnvrFox
Many of those mountains are turning totally brown due to the Western Pine Bark Beetle, and enhanced by the drought. We now have over 1 million acres of dead trees, just waiting to burn, especially in Summit and Grand counties. It is really sad seeing the brown of what, for me since 1962, was a green wonderland!
Why sad? Embrace the chance and celebrate the new life forms that will find their homes in the rich soil that is being left behind by the old vegetation. Soon new forms of life will take root as they move up from the desertification of the American southwest.

Climate change is just that, a change in climate, not a destruction of the planet. Life will find a way to survive, afterall, everything we know today survived the Holocene Maximum period (including Polarbears) where it was warmer than today.

And to the OP, congrats on accomplishing such a hard ride especialy on a fixie!
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