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news.bbc.co.uk — Climate change is bringing wetter winters to southern Norway, a bleak prospect for the region's lemmings.

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  • DPozzy, on 11/06/2008, -1/+28Parachutes... umbrellas... stairs
  • inactive, on 11/06/2008, -1/+13I blame violent video games.
  • turkoftheplains, on 11/06/2008, -0/+9but this level requires 100% survival
  • inactive, on 11/06/2008, -3/+11From the article: "Writing in the journal Nature, the researchers suggest the lack of Norwegian lemmings is affecting other animals such as foxes and owls. In boom years, lemmings are the most plentiful and important prey for these carnivores."

    Even the bottom of the food chain still leads up...

  • dvsbastard, on 11/06/2008, -1/+9Pfffttt... This is easy to fix! Just use a blocker...
  • whodaimen, on 11/06/2008, -1/+7Change "Climate" To "Disney" and you've got your headline back.
  • Kucher, on 11/06/2008, -0/+65.....4.....3.....2.....1.....*wiggle wiggle*..... *pop!*
  • wafflesomd, on 11/06/2008, -2/+7Lemmings don't actually run off cliffs. They don't commit mass suicide.

    The footage that shows them doing this, Disney actually forced them off.
  • turkoftheplains, on 11/06/2008, -0/+5the real problem is that this environment makes the builders quit even earlier.
  • internetcoward, on 11/06/2008, -0/+5LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL..... oh wait... no
  • AussieJimbo, on 11/06/2008, -0/+3More details of the fakery:

    http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp
  • tobikow, on 11/06/2008, -0/+2and digger lemmings...?
  • monoa, on 11/06/2008, -0/+2Which naturally occurring cycle explains the last 50 years of global warming?

    Which naturally occurring cycle explains the ~40% increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration over the past ~150 years.

    Explain why the century old science of CO2 being a GHG is wrong.

    If you can't provide evidence for any of this - and I know you can't - then you're a clueless denier, like all the rest.
  • MeatyMcBeef, on 11/06/2008, -1/+3I thought lemmings pushed lemmings off cliffs...
  • Charlotte_Web, on 11/06/2008, -0/+2Oh no!
  • Screwy1138, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2the problem is people are pointing to things NOW saying look the climate change NOW is causing these lemmings to have problems, when we're now saying that climate change won't be a noticeable factor until 2020.
  • wunksta, on 11/06/2008, -2/+3show me the cycle. we are at a solar minimum and the milankovitch cycle isnt in effect yet. the only difference is the ghg emissions. do you know any cycle that we dont know of yet?
  • monoa, on 11/06/2008, -1/+2Look up 'figurative speech'. Then consider that the phrase 'like lemmings over a cliff' is a very common saying in the English language. See if you can then join the two up.
  • wunksta, on 11/06/2008, -1/+2"However, temperatures will again be rising quickly by about 2020"

    funny how you left that out.
  • Ganpachi, on 11/06/2008, -1/+2so it was a metaphorical cliff? that cad!
  • mikeoncampus, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1genius. pure genius.
  • Ganpachi, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1blame disney. http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.asp
  • SchmuckofNI, on 11/06/2008, -0/+1I never could understand why Lemmings are so fascinated by cliffs.....
  • chase001, on 11/06/2008, -2/+3The lemmings are jumping because their candidate didn't win.
  • Someguy101, on 02/19/2009, -0/+1http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/
  • Spure, on 11/06/2008, -2/+2WALL
  • minnepinne, on 11/06/2008, -1/+1Oh No!
  • helixed, on 11/06/2008, -1/+1I always wondered why those green haired little guys kept walking until they fell to their deaths...
  • Paulish, on 11/06/2008, -1/+1What a drop in lemming population.
  • palehorse864, on 11/06/2008, -1/+1Put up some blockers, fast!
  • mikeoncampus, on 11/06/2008, -3/+3PEOPLE! Man Bear Pig is eating the Lemmings! I was in Vancouver and saw this half man half bear half pig. MANBEARPIG MUST BE STOPPED
  • McNash, on 11/06/2008, -2/+2Should read "Climate pushing lemmings off cliffs"
  • handheldchimp, on 11/06/2008, -1/+1Best. Game. Evar.

    ...oh wait...
  • Ganpachi, on 11/06/2008, -1/+1***** me. I just lost the game, too.
  • kaijim, on 11/06/2008, -1/+1This is *****. At our cabin in the mountains (in southwest Norway) there has been a "lemming year" this year, lemmings everywhere. Lemmings plentifull!
  • MegaMark, on 11/06/2008, -1/+1http://digg.com/pc_games/Why_Lemmings_can_t_be_fri ...
  • wunksta, on 11/06/2008, -1/+1....and youre here because?
  • wunksta, on 11/06/2008, -1/+1hahaha oh wow, thanks for that.
  • uttamc, on 11/06/2008, -2/+1I like lemmings. They make good sandwiches.
  • inactive, on 11/06/2008, -4/+3http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7376301. ...

    **The Earth's temperature may stay roughly the same for a decade, as natural climate cycles enter a cooling phase, scientists have predicted.

    A new computer model developed by German researchers, reported in the journal Nature, suggests the cooling will counter greenhouse warming...

    ..."One message from our study is that in the short term, you can see changes in the global mean temperature that you might not expect given the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)," said Noel Keenlyside from the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences at Kiel University.**
  • Samohtneas, on 11/06/2008, -2/+1Does it make me a bad person to wish that lemmings actually did throw themselves off cliffs en masse?
  • internetcoward, on 11/06/2008, -2/+1i see what you did there. cough.myth.cough
  • inactive, on 11/06/2008, -2/+1another blow for the people after global warming
  • zenerdiode, on 11/06/2008, -1/+0Man I miss my 386DX33 running DOS 5.0 playing Lemmings, King's Quest, Space Quest, and Pools of Radiance :(
  • granolajoe, on 11/06/2008, -4/+2The headline has nothing to do with the rest of the article. A journalist simply capitalized on the idiotic rumor that lemmings jump off cliffs to get more views to the article.
  • HyperionHK, on 11/06/2008, -2/+0hirr today, gone tomorrow :(
  • purpledrank, on 11/06/2008, -5/+3LEMMINGS ARE REAL?! WTF?!

    I thought they only existed when an exorbitant amount of peyote and psilocybin are in your system..
  • inactive, on 11/06/2008, -3/+1dude they will never get over this. huge industries have been built on this theory - now they realise its all ***** but they must keep flogging this dead horse or peoples jobs and beliefs will be at stake, as well as the governments excuses for pointless taxations
  • 6minuteabs, on 11/06/2008, -5/+2Climate change lemmings... I ignored this article 3 times before realizing it wasn't about Al Gore.
  • inactive, on 11/06/2008, -8/+4And the election is pushing conservatives to the cliff
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