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- collution, on 05/28/2009, -0/+20Too many on digg trying to be funny just to be dugg up.
Seems some/most commenters don't write for substance anymore... - solboldi, on 05/28/2009, -1/+10Oysters are a great source of zinc, which is an important mineral for immune function, fertility, and skin.
- nextTopModel, on 05/28/2009, -7/+13Climate change odds much worse than thought
New analysis shows warming could be double previous estimates
The new projections, published this month in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate, indicate a median probability of surface warming of 5.2 degrees Celsius by 2100, with a 90% probability range of 3.5 to 7.4 degrees.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/roulette-0519.h ... - twinklyJesus, on 05/28/2009, -1/+6While you're wishing for the impossible, why not wish for a garbage fairy that turns garbage into gold?
What, are you 12? - angryredplanet, on 05/29/2009, -0/+5Sadly, humanity's lesson is just beyond the horizon. It just so happens that we're fixated on taking as much down with us as possible.
- ADifferentUsern, on 05/28/2009, -2/+7thanks for that pearl of wisdom.
- angryredplanet, on 05/29/2009, -0/+5Evolution happens slowly and hence, this is not evolution as much as it is obliteration. The life-forms on this planet have not had enough time to adapt let alone evolve to the growing direct or collateral human threat bearing down on them.
Here is a thought: what will we eat when our biosphere is so pillaged that it will not support us? You can deny or make rather useless pseudo-intelligent darwin-centric assessments all you want, but the fact remains that in a couple of lifetimes we have increasingly destroyed what has taken nature hundreds of thousands of years to evolve. We are heading in only one direction.
Réveillez-vous. - XZanatos, on 05/28/2009, -0/+3What species are doing well? I seriously doubt there are many species doing well among humans. There are a few of course, those who have adapted to live off human civilization: rats, cockroaches, mice, pigeons, etc.
Its like trying to report on the 'good' side of a firestorm destroying countryside and farms alike. - DesertFlyer, on 05/28/2009, -1/+4Except when we are the reason things are dying.
- nextTopModel, on 05/28/2009, -0/+3There are people who recive paychecks to disturb news platforms.
- MrSlumberjack, on 05/29/2009, -0/+3It's so refreshing to see a reference to an actual academic journal article on Digg... thanks for sharing!
- RiotHeart, on 05/28/2009, -2/+5I'm on a seafood diet too
I see food, then I eat it - lostlyrics, on 05/29/2009, -0/+3no, that's shruggism.
something like darwinism does not exist anyway.:p
idolatry cAn be observed only among sociologists/economists
and their quite funny, but often desperately attempted science.
there's the fact of evolution and an expanding theory how it works.
wallace and his diligent methodics in the jungle, to be heavily
plagiarized by media star darwin comfy in britain, as foundation.
but all courses head trantor, and viri are our main road signs now. - inactive, on 05/28/2009, -0/+3I grew up on the Florida coast and we would always collect shellfish to eat when the season came around. I go back to those places now just over a decade later and even during peak times there is nothing to catch or collect. Mainly it is run off pollution from the rising population that is to blame.
- kbillar, on 05/28/2009, -1/+4Actually they don't have central nervousness
....I love you NOFX - Wareznuke, on 05/28/2009, -2/+5This is truly sad. Being Portuguese, seafood is a big part of my diet and I eat everything (squid, octopus, shellfish, ALL fish, seaweed?). Thankfully the majority of Americans refuse to eat seafood unless it's heavily fried so the world should be safe. for now.
- mydiggID1, on 05/29/2009, -2/+4I'll laugh when you pigs cannot eat any more seafood.
I love fish and the ocean...But you pigs are over doing it!! *****!! Doesn't anyone know the meaning of MODERATION??? Maybe when the sea is bare the concept will finally have been drilled into your thick skulls....probably not - MWeather, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2What is that agenda? Conserving nature? The bastards!
- Dustin00, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2bacteria, fish farm worms, red algae, countless viruses...
- inactive, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2I'm glad that this property is being put into government hands in order to protect it in perpetuity from development and degradation.
- inactive, on 05/31/2009, -0/+2Just because you've never been to the sun doesn't mean it isn't a critical part of life on earth. Your argument is invalid and buried.
- NervousEnergy, on 05/28/2009, -4/+6What the ***** with all the retarded comments? This is a serious issue; the way we are destroying the ecology of the ocean spells serious bad trouble for future generations. It's such a delicate ecosystem down there, and it has far reaching consequences.
It's utterly insane how some overharvest and overfish the oceans. There is not a limitless supply, but we are treating it as if it is. - GaltShrugged, on 05/29/2009, -0/+2Moderation doesn't work when there are people starving.
- nextTopModel, on 05/28/2009, -0/+2Its not takeing methane in account. And thats the real bummer!
- acegi, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1where does diet part come in?
- XZanatos, on 05/28/2009, -0/+2Slashdot used to have this problem, then Digg.com was invented and it drew off most of that sort here. Unfortunately Slashdot sticks more to nerdy-techno topics and does not cover environmental nor political topics as much.
Such is life. - RiotHeart, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1The Diet coke
- Wareznuke, on 05/28/2009, -0/+2I don't know why you're dugg down... Whatever. I fully agree that overfishing and pollution will eventually wipe out most of sea life.
- aelias, on 05/28/2009, -4/+6From http://undueinfluence.com/nature_conservancy.htm
TNC has 274 employees and officers who are paid over $50,000 a year each. In 1996, TNC paid 50 firms or individuals over $50,000 for consulting, fundraising, legal counsel and other professional services. TNC paid out $15,792,253 in grants to partner organizations.
TNC is not only Nature�s real estate agent, it�s not doing bad as Nature�s securities investor, either: in 2000 it received $171,764,755 from its securities investment portfolio. What exactly all this securities trading has to do with saving nature is open to question, since TNC�s securities investment portfolio is standard rich folks stuff with a lot of common and preferred stock in "capitalist, polluting, toxic, desecrating, bad-nasty corporations," mixed with mutual funds, bonds and U.S. government obligations totaling $1,051,959,170 in 2000. That doesn't count other investments worth $165,202,224.
Then there�s the real estate. TNC say it owns or has under conservation easement 1,177,000 acres in its private preserve system. Good. TNC also says it has protected 10.5 million acres in the United States. Good. If they own only 1.17 million of that 10.5 million, what happened to the other 9.3 million acres?
They sold a lot of it to the government.
Whoa.
The Nature Conservancy bought private land from private owners who thought it would remain in private hands and sold it to the government?
Yep.
Isn�t that illegal?
Nope.
The government asks them to do it some of the time.
A letter from the Deputy Regional Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to the Nature Conservancy dated August 30, 1985, reveals a long-standing government agreement for TNC to buy private land: "We are appreciative of The Nature Conservancy�s continuing effort to assist the Service in the acquisition of lands for the Connecticut Coastal National Wildlife Refuge."
In this and numerous other letters, the government clearly agrees to pay TNC "in excess of the approved appraisal value."
Similar agreements for the federal government to buy TNC property at top-dollar prices exist all over the nation.
One federal officer who conducted such excess-cost purchases, Robert Miller, a chief of the realty division of the USFWS, was later hired by TNC at a high salary.
The Nature Conservancy is a conduit for the nationalization of private property. Nearly ten million acres so far. - willythegnome, on 05/28/2009, -0/+2Awe...shucks.
- inactive, on 05/28/2009, -1/+2groan
- XZanatos, on 05/28/2009, -0/+1hawksenthor is being dugg down because of the word "permissible". This is not a "permissible" situation, this is a definitely absolutely necessary situation to stop ***** up our planet.
- ericthesalmon, on 05/28/2009, -2/+3Can we ban the word "Superfood"?
- Plastic9mm, on 05/28/2009, -3/+4No chowder for you! Clams have feelings too.
- twinklyJesus, on 05/28/2009, -1/+2or, if they could produce stories with believable math...
- inactive, on 05/28/2009, -5/+6But remember guys, we have no impact on the environment. Cause Rudolf Limberger told me so.
- MWeather, on 05/29/2009, -0/+1But the article specifically mentions methane...
- solboldi, on 05/28/2009, -1/+2all models should be saying this.
- Zaxcomp, on 05/28/2009, -3/+4Seeing numbers like this all around me regarding how different the earth has become, it really feels like we've ***** it up beyond any repair. Now we are just trying to burn out as quick as possible.
- inactive, on 05/28/2009, -3/+3That wasn't shellfish.
- JonTheGoose, on 05/28/2009, -6/+6If God wanted oysters to survive to see the second coming of Jesus then he wouldn't have made them taste so good.
- inactive, on 05/28/2009, -1/+1I would also permit that.
- inactive, on 05/29/2009, -0/+0Friends, black hole was a term I used to mean any place where the garbage will have no effect on the rest of the world, not the collapsed stars in outer space, though it would be great to one day throw our garbage there as well.
- jeremymccurdy, on 05/28/2009, -2/+2It's Reef(er) Madness!
- nbhatti1, on 05/28/2009, -1/+1This is the first thing i thought of too.
- fabthegerm, on 05/28/2009, -2/+2so you're suggesting that for every article which claims that the earth is round, there should be an article which claims that the earth is flat, in order to make the first article more credible? is that what you're saying? really?
- GaltShrugged, on 05/29/2009, -2/+2Ahh, I'm getting buried. Here is a thought. If you don't like evolution/darwinism *cough* reality *cough*. Pick up a bible. You'll fit right in.
- RiotHeart, on 05/28/2009, -14/+13What did the girl oyster say to the boy oyster?
"You never open up to me." - DonAlfred, on 05/28/2009, -2/+0***** that.
- kronzdigg, on 05/28/2009, -3/+1nice pun.
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