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[rapier]

Something for global-warming skeptics
More studies link temperature, CO2.
Toronto Star, May 27, 2006.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1148681732469&call_pageid=968332188774&col=968350116467


I don't think we have long. maybe 20-25 yeqars before the effects of rapid climate change force terrible conflicts on the earth. Humans are controlled by their resources and are quickly reduced to fighting over them when they become scarce.

The efects are everywhere now and getting worse. lets just look at this as a brief example:

Global warming is killing vineyards in southern Spain, threatening a $2.4 billion wine industry and forcing grape growers to move to cooler climes of the Pyrenees.
Miami Herald May 29th
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/special_packages/business_monday/14678620.htm

Imagine similar agricultural changes across whole regions.

[rapier]

[caniff]

[Big_Bird]

[Bulsajo]

Another global warming gift: itchier poison ivy
Study finds more carbon dioxide makes for faster, more allergenic plant
WASHINGTON - Another reason to worry about global warming: more and itchier poison ivy.

The noxious vine grows faster and bigger as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rise, researchers report Monday.

And a CO2-driven vine also produces more of its rash-causing chemical, urushiol, conclude experiments conducted in a forest at Duke University where scientists increased carbon-dioxide levels to those expected in 2050.

Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas � a chemical that traps heat similar to the way a greenhouse does � that�s considered a major contributor to global warming. Greenhouse gases have been steadily increasing in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

Poison ivy is common in woods around the country, making it a bane of hikers, campers, fighters of forest fires, even backyard gardeners. Its itchy, sometimes blistering rash is one of the most widely reported ailments to poison-control centers, with more than 350,000 reported cases a year.

Compared to poison ivy grown in usual atmospheric conditions, those exposed to the extra-high carbon dioxide grew about three times larger � and produced more allergenic form of urushiol, scientists from Duke and Harvard University reported.

Their study appears in this week�s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

�The fertilization effect of rising CO2 on poison ivy ... and the shift toward a more allergenic form of urushiol have important implications for the future health of both humans and forests,� the study concludes.

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[Big_Bird]

[Junior]

Now now girls...

[EFLtrainer]

Bizarely enough, rapier, I hadn't even thought about the *conflicts* to come. How the hell did I manage that?

[caniff]

[Big_Bird]