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2015-04-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Meet the Cool Beans Designed to Beat Climate Change

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-04-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Well, this explains why my green & yellow beans keep keeling over year in & year out - they sit right next to my tenant's dryer vent.

Posted by Raj 2015-04-09 00:29|| 2015-04-09 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 I don't understand the 66F premise.

Some of the biggest dry bean producers in the world include Brazil, Burma and India.

Posted by lord garth 2015-04-09 01:05|| 2015-04-09 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 And when the ice age comes, they'll finally realize they've been working on the wrong problem. Of course, I'm sure they'd grow well in any land positioned behind Al Gore. Burning methane from his ass can probably heat the bean crop, provide 200 MW of power and still leave enough energy to set his pants on fire.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-04-09 05:05|| 2015-04-09 05:05|| Front Page Top

#4 He wanted to transfer these genetic traits into the common bean

Doesn't that make it, like, a Genetically Modified Organism? I wonder if the lefties understand? They hate GMOs.

Posted by Bobby 2015-04-09 07:50|| 2015-04-09 07:50|| Front Page Top

#5 Technically speaking, all our food crops are GMO, since we breed and crossbreed them. Blanket condemnation of GMO foods is a hallmark of the modern day Luddite, ironically delivered over the Internet

Posted by OldSpook 2015-04-09 13:21|| 2015-04-09 13:21|| Front Page Top

#6 But GMO foods require dihydrogen monoxide, deadly in large amounts, and have been found to be infected with DNA.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-04-09 13:41|| 2015-04-09 13:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Lord Garth, perhaps humidity is a factor they forgot to mention?

I'd love to see what would happen if it suddnely became known that Starbucks was using GMO beans to make their coffee. Riots? Or just suicidal depression?

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-04-09 15:06|| 2015-04-09 15:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Lemme know when they got beans that can grow on a half mile of ice. Winter is coming.

Posted by SteveS 2015-04-09 20:32|| 2015-04-09 20:32|| Front Page Top

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