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title: Viewed from above, a stump sure looks like a dot
date: 2012-05-03T21:05:13Z
modified: 2012-05-03T21:05:13Z
permalink: "https://350.org/viewed-above-stump-sure-looks-dot/"
type: post
status: publish
excerpt: Weird weather is killing trees around the world--whether from freak snowstorms (this spring saw the latest-ever  big storm in Oregon) or from afflictions like the pine-bark beetle, which can raise an extra generation each summer now because of warmer temperatures
wpid: 29221
author: Bill McKibben
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Weird weather is killing trees around the world–whether from freak snowstorms (this spring saw the latest-ever big storm in Oregon) or from afflictions like the pine-bark beetle, which can raise an extra generation each summer now because of warmer temperatures