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2006-01-11 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Seafarious 2006-01-11 15:43|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We need to cut down and burn the rainforests NOW! Before its too late!

Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-01-11 17:05|| 2006-01-11 17:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Scientists had previously thought that plants could only emit methane in the absence of oxygen.

Oooops! Kinda like that "sunshine causes cancer - except you need it" or the "cholesterol is bad for you, waitaminnit, you need it anyway" thingy. Look, understand that you don't have the grand unifying theory of how all things work, and stop trying to manipulate the system! It's worked for beelyuns and beelyuns of years, we don't have to be The Loving Shepherds of Frickin Gaia!

Posted by BH 2006-01-11 17:09|| 2006-01-11 17:09|| Front Page Top

#3 That means that all the current climate models are pure flatulence.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-01-11 17:51|| 2006-01-11 17:51|| Front Page Top

#4 This isn't new. In the latter part of of the 1990s scientists discovered that the Blue Ridge Mountains appear blue because of smog, the chemical constituents are emitted by the trees growing there. In 1998 or -9 I wrote to lead professor on the research (I'm afraid I don't remember his name) to find out which species were most culpable so that we wouldn't plant those at the trailing daughters' school nature preserve, but he never answered. As I recall, however, cottonwoods are wonderful at drawing out pollutants from the groundwater and sequestering the chemicals in their trunks, sunflowers are especially good at removing heavy metals from the soil, and the native Blue Flag iris (iris [virginicus] shrevei) is particularly good at pulling pollutants out of running water.

In case anyone wants to know. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-01-11 19:06|| 2006-01-11 19:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Sniff, Sniff - and to think it only took twenty to thirty years to affirm my old science thesis, and by the Germans no less. Time to celebrate wid a Beer, or 24; and maybe a nice Philly Cheeseteak SUb, or 3.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-01-11 20:20|| 2006-01-11 20:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Sniff, Sniff - and to think it only took twenty to thirty years to affirm my old science thesis, and by the Germans no less. Time to celebrate wid a Beer, or 24; and maybe a nice Philly Cheeseteak SUb, or 3.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-01-11 20:21|| 2006-01-11 20:21|| Front Page Top

#7 The culprits are plants.

Plant farts - silent, but deadly.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2006-01-11 22:29|| 2006-01-11 22:29|| Front Page Top

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