Zombie attacks might increase due to global warming, study shows

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/2008/01/31/zombie-attacks-might-increase-due-to-global-warming-study-shows/ ^ | William M Briggs

[mattstat]

A new study by scientists has suggested that zombie attacks might increase if the current projections of global warming are realized. “If the earth gets warmer, it means longer springs, summers, and falls, and shorter winters,” said John Carpenter-Romero, Ph.D., a zombie-ologist who co-authored the study. “And shorter winters means more time for the undead to prey on the populace.”

Dr. Harrister, the other co-author, and head of Zombie Robotics at Wayward Robot, Inc., explained that cold winters typically stalled the walking dead. “It is well known that zombies can’t operate in cold weather. It freezes their brains.”

The pair calculated a 32.782412% increase in zombie attacks if CO2 increased to twice its pre-industrial rate. “Clearly, this is a very troubling result,” said Dr. Harrister, “If we don’t do something soon, the streets will be filled with blood.”

[Darksheare]

Welcome.
The Undead Thread thrives on zombie based discussions.

[Hot Tabasco]

You’d think you’d at least have a Winchester 30-30 in that arsenal.

Post #43: I know, you're right

Post #44: I know, you're right

[sionnsar]

"And now we need a motto for our badge..."

Yup. Fortunately we have our choice of languages: Gaelic, Scots or Latin. A couple of ideas/examples
Gaelic: Chan Eil An Snàth Marbh Fhathast! (The Thread Is Not Dead Yet!)
Scots: Touch Not the Undeid Threid Bot A Glove! (Don't Mess With The Undead Thread, shamelessly taken from Clan Chattan / Clan of the Cats!)

Still thinking on this...

[End Times Sentinel]

zombies walk the earth, blah, blah, blah...

But the important part is that if you so much as consider, entertaining, the remotest possibility that perhaps, somehow, someway, things could be construed, that there’s a remote chance that this is in any way less than 100% factually correct, well... you are worse than Hitler.

[vetvetdoug]

My first wife was a zombie...she acted almost dead whether it was warm, hot or frigid cold. It didn’t matter...In my experience I don’t believe temperature has any effect upon a zombie..

[Tax-chick]

Hello, hello, anybody here but the zombies? This thread needs penguins!

[NicknamedBob]

"This could happen. After all, the Blob already ate algore."

Are you entirely certain it wasn't the other way around?

[Tax-chick]

[NicknamedBob]

"Hello, hello, anybody here but the zombies? This thread needs penguins!"

Do penguins make good zombies? If so, we may get a lot of them from the global warming.

What about snowmen zombies? Poor demented souls maddened by the heat, walking thumpeting around in search of a cold slushie.

[Tax-chick]

I’ve never seen any zombie penguins. Maybe the zombie seals ate them all.

[NicknamedBob]

Zombie ecology. Hence the existence of this thread.

It’s based on a zombie ecological disaster.

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With zombie science, including zombie statistics. (87.79 percent of which are made up on the spot.)

[Darksheare]

Gotta have a zombie plan.

[Erasmus]

You got one of the extremely rare temperature-compensated ones.

[Jonah Hex]

Zombies need a well-balanced diet too.

[Darksheare]

Hey, this means that global warming is good for us.

[NicknamedBob]

"Hey, this means that global warming is good for us."

There it is right in the first post ...

"... if the current projections of global warming are realized. “If the earth gets warmer, it means longer springs, summers, and falls, and shorter winters,” said John Carpenter-Romero, Ph.D." -- (bolding mine)

After all, more people die from the cold and from hunger than from the heat.

[sionnsar]

Hey, this means that global warming is good for us.

Yah well, talked with my mother this evening. They're being blanketed with a whole bunch of that white global warming stuff and are a wee bit short of carbon-based natural cyclical-energy storage modules ("logs").

She'd like a relief from this "global warming" -- and even here in the Seattle area this year has already features the most snowfalls of any year in the past quarter-century.

[Darkchylde]

>_>
>_>

I believe the blame really belongs to... Your coffee!!

>_>... O.o

[Darksheare]

Works for me.
I like warm weather.
Just not oppressively hot.

[Darksheare]

I admit, my coffee is the cause and cure or many things.