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- nickspohn, on 05/05/2008, -2/+19we need our bees!
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -4/+17Damnit, I keep saying it - global warming isn't the only reason to reduce emissions. Somebody then, please, explain to me, what are the global warming deniers arguing against? If we acknowledge that emissions are a major problem regardless of global warming, what does it matter whether or not AGW is real?
- str3ama, on 05/05/2008, -4/+17That's pretty serious..bees not being able to find flowers = no pollination, and that means no reproduction for plants. The food market is already in disarray with wheat prices rising, just imagine what it'll mean if the yield on vegetables starts to decrease.
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -1/+10WTF are you talking about?
- saji79, on 05/05/2008, -0/+8It'll be interesting to see if a farmer would have any legal footing for a lawsuit against the polluters. In any event, It's another reason to cut back on air pollution.
- saji79, on 05/05/2008, -1/+7Why don't you learn what air pollution actually is before making baseless comments like this.
- edebolt, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6Okay I got to thinking about this. I live in Northern Thailand where the air pollution can be really bad and much worse than a place like L.A. and they pump out bee honey here like there is no tomorrow. I asked the health food store woman if bee keepers near the city were having health problems and she said none at all. Scientists need to keep looking. It took them a few years to figure out varoa mites were the culprit a few decades ago.
- GoneGreen, on 05/05/2008, -4/+10Albert Einstein warned humankind of two approaching apocalypses: on was nuclear annihilation and the other involved bees. He said:"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left.
- SeraphIXI, on 05/05/2008, -5/+11If bees stop pollinating, we're not going to have as many fruits and vegetables and they're going to get more expensive. No more supreme pizzas for us :(
- insonh, on 05/05/2008, -0/+6Donuts!
because thats the only thing they cant do - talonstriker, on 05/05/2008, -0/+5Einstein is the nerd's Chuck Norris.
- edebolt, on 05/05/2008, -2/+7the new Bee 3.0 model will come equipped with GPS and RFID tracking. problem solved but will be a while before aftermarket parts are ready for hotrodding.
- kinneys, on 05/05/2008, -1/+5Breaker. Breaker. Good Buddy, YOU ARE BEING SOLD A LIE!
This is not CARBON related, but just wait till you get the CARBON TAX, you will be sorry.
... A study at the University of Jena from 2001 to 2004 showed that toxins from a genetically modified maize variant designed to repel insects, when combined with a parasite, resulted in a "significantly stronger decline in the number of bees" than normal.
"According to Hans-Hinrich Kaatz, a professor at the University of Halle in eastern Germany and the director of the study, the bacterial toxin in the genetically modified corn may have "altered the surface of the bee's intestines, sufficiently weakening the bees to allow the parasites to gain entry -- or perhaps it was the other way around. We don't know." Kaatz was desperate to continue his studies but funding was cut off. - inactive, on 05/05/2008, -2/+6More accurately, it cockblocks the plants that require the bees to pollinate them.
- plaing, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4"Since 2006, honeybee colonies in the United States have been suffering from a widespread phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD), in which adult worker bees abandon an otherwise-healthy hive.
John P. Burand, an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst who is studying bee colony collapses, said the effects of air pollution described in the new study are probably not directly related to that phenomenon." - hydroplane, on 05/05/2008, -7/+11Give bees a chance.
- edwartica, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4Meh, some of us are allergic to bee stings already, why make them any more lethal?
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4WTF do you put on pizzas? Tomatoes, peppers, onions and olives do not require bees for pollination.
- HarryBauzonia, on 05/05/2008, -0/+4I keep vials of holy water near the hives so that the evil ones stay inside.
- MikeFromAmerica, on 05/05/2008, -1/+5And by periodically releasing small amount radiation, we can help bring about the evolution of new super-bees that are invulnerable to all forms of pollution.
- abenage, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Umm, bees sting. And only crazy people who enjoy getting stung would ever consider harboring the evil creatures...
- HarryBauzonia, on 05/05/2008, -1/+4I have a small apple orchard, and last year I put a couple of beehives at each end of it (four total).
My apples are doing fine and I can eat honey right off the comb. I haven't had a die-off, and I do crazy things like use a cell phone and a gas-burning truck. Sometimes the temperature last summer got up into the 90's and 100's (shock) and they still didn't die. So much for "global warming", V8 engines, or phone calls killing bees.
Instead of just bitching and fretting about bees dying off and blaming it on George Bush, perhaps some of you should get off your asses and do something about it. Buying a new car does very little, but it's easy to keep bees. They pretty much take care of themselves, and they live in a cheap box. - inactive, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Plugged in? Genocide? Dude, WTF are you smoking? Your posts make no sense and you seem to be replying to yourself. I was simply saying that cars and coal power plants put out way more ***** than just carbon dioxide, and that reducing those emissions, which are bad for us regardless of the CO2 issue, would hey, reduce the emissions of CO2 in the process, imagine that! I don't know where you got the idea that I was in favor of genocide, or that I didn't care about toxins that the navy dumps into the ocean.
- Charlotte_Web, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Bee Movie lays it all out for us.
- Pottersquash, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3PREACH BROTHER!!! If bees can't make it work they deserve to go away, its survival of the fittest, not the most pathetic. We lose Bees, we will adapt!!! Why? cause we arent worthless no evolution bees.
- MikeFromAmerica, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Bees should not be allowed to use cell phones in the first place. Problem solved.
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3That's not reason to simply flat-out reject the entire field of study. Attack the tactics, not the science.
- Jaablaze, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3Something thats so important...and yet people make lite of it.
- isunktheship, on 05/05/2008, -0/+3I hear Bees spends his spare time pollinating flowers, if you know what I mean.
- betasp, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Since pollution has been getting less, shouldn't this problem be getting better?
- inactive, on 05/06/2008, -0/+2Oh, BS poor beekeeping, disease, parasites, pesticides and plain old stress are 99% of the problems.
This supposition is just reactionary nonsense that doesn't help solve a thing. - isunktheship, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2(Shhhh, this is what he thinks organic means...)
- fireburner23, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2Is there a source for this?
- bincoder, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2Beeing located in a major metro area we have plenty of air pollution and since its the desert and under -eternal- construction most of it is particulants aka dust. This last winter felt normal for here, nice and warm some days, too cold on others and more rainy than usual. Strange things happen lately though. A 30 foot tree in the yard has always gone dormant, like it should, in the fall. This last winter, it didn't do that. The leaves stayed green and healthy, there was no browning or leaf drop. Now we are pushing 100F (summer/spring) and that same tree has the same leaves it always had and they are still healthy. The tomato plants and trees have no shortage of bees, however they have changed too. Now the bees are more black in color, not honeybees and not africanized ones (so far) whatever bee they are, they still pollinate the plants. Very strange.
- SuperVepr308, on 05/05/2008, -1/+3How about a 30MM chain-gun?
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2One difference was that there was never any hard science behind the cell phone claims.
- npk9, on 05/05/2008, -0/+2I agree but lets take it further since most readers usually don't like thinking critically. After vegetation has decreased so will the animals and us. I don't know if pollution is really the source problem as it is a number factors that contribute to CCD (colony collapse disorder). If someone asked me what the most important global issue would be - I would have to say CCD. Its not some intercontinental problem - this is a serious environmental issue that effect all species that have bee in its ecological environment.
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -1/+2That doesn't seem to be happening.
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1I DRINK YOUR HONEY!
- inactive, on 05/05/2008, -3/+4Dug down because Einstein never said this *****. Check snopes fool, Einstein was a physicist, why would he make a statement about bees?
- edwartica, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1But what if the bee needs to make a call?
- SuperVepr308, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Can they still find Granny's bonnett?
- pintomp3, on 05/05/2008, -1/+2mind your own beesiness.
- Charlotte_Web, on 05/05/2008, -1/+2No more radiation emissions than our current coal plants do, and probably less.
- saji79, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1I don't see what the guidestones have to do with bees and air pollution. Try staying on topic.
- dafragsta, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1What? Nothing for the bee guy?
- neozeed, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Careful, Al Gore & friends run strong today. CO2 is death to the plants, etc etc.
- edwartica, on 05/05/2008, -0/+1Never mind that some of us like our fresh fruit!
- poppeman, on 05/06/2008, -0/+0On one hand this is bad for plants. On the other hand I hate bees. Not sure if I like this or not.
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