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- bightchee, on 10/10/2007, -4/+296Give me a half-tanker of Jack Daniels and I'll drive that tanker in to something probably very valuable.
- RichStevenson, on 10/10/2007, -3/+116"That CO2 can stay down there for hundreds of years."
Wasn't there a story on Digg about a lake that burped CO2 and killed life within a specific radius? - jerrolds, on 10/10/2007, -4/+89"All we need are snakes to take care of our rat problem."
"What do we do with all the snakes when all the rats are gone?"
"Easy...we fly in mongooses from Africa"
"..." - jerrolds, on 10/10/2007, -1/+68Dammit..this was the reference i was looking for:
Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
Skinner: No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death. - Tenetri, on 10/10/2007, -0/+38"The most handsome politicians decided to dump huge ice cubes in the ocean every year to combat global warming.
Since its been getting worse and worse, every year we have to dump larger ice cubes into the water, thereby solving the problem, forever"
"but what about the"
"FOREVER!!"
-Futurama - WindyT, on 10/10/2007, -8/+44Offshore Louisiana, we have a smaller operating area that does the same thing: It's called The Dead Zone.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+39Yes, but it appears the CO2 can be safely released from the bottom by installing a series of tubes.
- rmxz, on 10/10/2007, -8/+441. Start a hedge fund.
2. Buy stocks and commodities that will do well in an ice age.
3. Buy a couple tankers of iron; dump them in the ocean.
4. Profit.
Since noone's done this yet, I imagine it's actually harder than it looks. Yes, I think hedge fund managers really are that amoral.
But just in case this Digg posting is the first they've heard of it - can anyone point me to the best stocks to own in (a) an ice age, and (b) extreme global warming? - Diggtatorship, on 10/10/2007, -9/+43There was an old lady who swallowed a fly....
- BoneheadFarker, on 10/10/2007, -1/+35Bah...don't ruin my comedic one-liner with your facts! You can use facts to prove anything, but facts can't make you laugh...
- TheCosmicFool, on 10/10/2007, -2/+34The internets doubles as a CO2 regulator? Sweet!
- sohlemac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+33As in increased algae bloom has created an oxygen depleted area where very little lives.
- NicodemusPrime, on 10/10/2007, -0/+28http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2000/12/12 ...
Nutrient-rich farm runoff and soil erosion is flowing into the Mississippi and emptying into the gulf. It feeds algae that suck up the oxygen in the water creating a large expanse of water that suffocates almost all marine life. I assume that our knack for preventing the Mississippi's natural flooding with levees has also contributed to the problem by preventing the filtration that our floodplains once provided. - Shmigget, on 10/10/2007, -3/+30Here's the real article http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=282&cid=3 ...
- Vicujozobenaxod, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28Do you experience insomnia, hatred for SUVs, love for Al Gore or demand that all things be made "green"? If you answered yes to any of these questions, ask your doctor if iron fertilization is right for you. Side effects may include harmful algae, disrupted ecosystems, and oxygen depletion.
- sohlemac, on 10/10/2007, -2/+25no call to be rude.
- levip7, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24Lake Nyos is the one that burped CO2 and killed a lot of people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos
- Bhima, on 10/10/2007, -4/+24So I am wondering if we really need the next ice age to start next year. What's wrong with just a little stability for a while?
- iceschade, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Fact: Every one of the 4 times I've been run off the road by a jackass driver, that driver's vehicle had a Jesus Fish on it.
- WasabiBomb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21The idea of *adding* something to the environment to counteract the effects of something else makes me more than a bit wary. Introducing a stimulus into an already out-of-balance situation tends to result in oscillation, with ever increasing swings.
- dorianh49, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Or a large truck?
- hipnerd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Farm subsidies mainly flow to Fortune 500 corporations like ConAgra. Politicians from both parties love bringing home this type of pork, so it isn't a partisan issue. Real conservatives hate meddling in the market. Real liberals hate subsidizing large corporations. The only people who do like it are corporations and the politicians in their pockets.
This is an example of corporatism gone awry, not "left-wing economics." - BoneheadFarker, on 10/10/2007, -6/+21Like the Alaskan coastline?
- n4ku, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15That happened somewhere in Africa a few years ago. Cameroon or Burundi, I think it was.
- Renton, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15Ireland was smart, they used magic.
- munkeyhatecleen, on 10/10/2007, -2/+17"Two days ago l saw a rig that could haul that tanker. If you wanna get out of here, you talk to me."
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14The best part is that the final solution is in fact a mini ice age in that joke.
- nixfu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15Remember...it always ends in Mongooses.
- lasermike026, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18People will believe in anything to keep their fat butts in SUVs. NOOOOoooooooo! Don't to the right thing. Duct tape!
- picsectionpleez, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15This is about the stupidest ***** idea I've ever heard of for fixing global warming. Once we ***** the oceans that's it folks, game over.
- juanchopanza, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Battle of Leyte Gulf in WW II saw more than 343,000 tons of iron ships sunk.
Must have been responsible for the cold war. - sohlemac, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Iron as a micronutrient is a little bit different.
- FredSpeaking, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
- BESTenemy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13How about: "promote a CO2 producing economy and then introduce a carbon tax and carbon credit exchange".
- 0crabby0, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13From wikipedia
"Since 1993, ten international research teams have completed relatively small-scale ocean trials demonstrating the effect."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization
"Martin hypothesized that increasing phytoplankton photosynthesis could slow or even reverse global warming by sequestering enormous volumes of CO2 in the sea. He died shortly thereafter during preparations for Ironex I [4], a proof of concept research voyage, which was successfully carried out near the Galapagos Islands in 1993 by his colleagues at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories[2]. Since then 9 other international ocean trials have confirmed the iron fertilization effect:" - Coffeedemon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12http://www.guardian.co.uk/naturaldisasters/story/0 ...
Hope the link will work with the new Digg comments mangler. That should be the one you're looking for.
Trust me... I'm a librarian :) - HamsterOfDeath, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11 Give me a tanker half full of iron and I'll show you a tanker sunk in port.
- CraigJ, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Why not study it on a small scale to see how it actually works?
- iceschade, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12I don't know WHY she swollowed a fly.
- Shats299, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14As in, the iron kills everything? I don't entirely understand what that means.
- crmypotato, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10You've been run off the road at least 4 times? Where do you live?
- pkonink, on 10/10/2007, -4/+14DId you know that the Exxon-Valdez disaster actually wasn't simply caused by a drunk captain? He was the company's scapegoat to divert attention from their responsibility in the disaster. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spil ...
- jothaxe, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9This is genius, but didn't they already solve this problem on Futurama?
...
Narrator: [in movie] Fortunately, our handsomest politicians came up with a cheap, last-minute way to combat global warming. Ever since 2063 we simply drop a giant ice cube into the ocean every now and then.
[The movie cuts to a shot of a aircraft dropping a large ice cube into the ocean and then cuts back to the classroom.]
Suzie: [in movie] Just like Daddy puts in his drink every morning. And then he gets mad.
Narrator:[in movie] Of course, since the greenhouse gases are still building up, it takes more and more ice each time. [There are shots of bigger ice cubes being dropped into the ocean.] Thus solving the problem once and for all.
Suzie: [in movie] But--
Narrator: [angry; in movie.] Once and for all!
[The movie quickly ends with the caption "The End".] - harrisos, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10It happened in Lake Nyos and lake Monoun in Cameroon in 1984, I found a BBC story from 2003 about how they're trying to prevent it from happening again, and a more recent NYT story on the same thing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2766487.stm
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0 ... - MattB123, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Interesting idea, but scary. Reminds me of the introduction of of a second species to control another introduced species, which always seems to backfire.
- Pritchard, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8I sent some CO2 through a series of tubes the other day, and it took 3 days to kill all life within a specified radius!
- iceschade, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Duct Tape and Plastic Sheeting companies, Ramen Noodle companies, and the people that make those shiny blankets. Any company invested in survival. But especially Duct Tape and Plastic Sheeting, because EVERYONE knows that if you duct tape plastic sheeting to your windows, you'll survive anything. Even crazy ghosts from the computer world.
- Mosatii, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Its funny; they did that in the virgin islands.
They still cant get rid of the mongooses. - RealmDown, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Well, it does have a lot of hot air in it.....
- df12, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Perhaps she'll die.
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