Tribbles To Ruin The Climate

11 Responses to Tribbles To Ruin The Climate

1. Dave N says:

   January 5, 2011 at 4:31 am

   “novel environments”?? Sorry, is this fool suggesting we’ve never had temps like this before, ever?

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2. intrepid_wanders says:

   January 5, 2011 at 4:49 am

   Obviously, Bradley could have some use in reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel

   Timeless book of history, anthropology, and normal sense.

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3. Mike Davis says:

   January 5, 2011 at 4:51 am

   A Biogeographer that thinks she is a CLIMATE SCIENTIST!
   This reminds me of the Starkist adds
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Wy_BRFElc

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4. Mike Davis says:

   January 5, 2011 at 4:56 am

   Dave:
   It is important to remember that the trees found under the glaciers were placed there by the OIL companies to confuse the true believers!!!!
   Those tales about Hannibal crossing the Alps with elephants were only myths and the farms found under the glaciers on Greenland were built there during the long winter nights by the deniers to fool the real scientists!

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5. Amino Acids in Meteorites says:

   January 5, 2011 at 6:17 am

   The original Star Trek is the best show ever!

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6. omnologos says:

   January 5, 2011 at 7:26 am

   Triffids not tribbles?

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   • stevengoddard says:

     January 5, 2011 at 7:33 am

     The Trouble With Tribbles

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7. BioBob says:

   January 5, 2011 at 9:58 am

   The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel written in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham.

   The protagonist is Bill Masen, an Englishman who has made his living working with “triffids”—tall plants capable of aggressive and seemingly intelligent behaviour. They are able to move about on their three “legs”, appear to communicate with each other, and possess a deadly whip-like poisonous sting that enables them to kill and feed on the rotting carcasses of their victims. The book implies they were bioengineered in the Soviet Union and then accidentally released into the wild when a plane carrying their seeds was shot down. Triffids begin sprouting all over the world, and their extracts prove to be superior to existing vegetable oils. The result is worldwide cultivation of triffids.

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8. Andy Weiss says:

   January 5, 2011 at 1:56 pm

   If global warming has such a multiplicity of terrible results, you would think it might have a least a few good results as well. Those you never hear about.

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9. Latitude says:

   January 5, 2011 at 2:12 pm

   You know
   On one hand, we talk about how delicate some plants are and can’t even take the smallest shift in temps or rainfall.
   On the other, we talk about how strong and developed some plants are, that are far superior, have better adaptive abilities….
   .. and we all them invasive

   This really is screwed up….

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   • BioBob says:

     January 5, 2011 at 6:06 pm

     Not really screwed up, just inane. Humans have been especially good at transferring plant and animal species from one place to another, introducing thousands of species both intentionally and accidentally.

     Claiming that climate change has anything to do with it is just stupid though. Species all have their own tolerance ranges to environmental conditions but in general, introduced species are at least ‘released’ from their biotic competitors sometimes enabling rapid population increases. Climate changes are so slow that they are insignificant as a factor when compared to the others involved, so bringing up climate just shows how idiotic the person is,

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