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Industrial Waste From Ants Emits Potent Greenhouse Gas
Gizmodo ^

Posted on 01/02/2019 10:36:47 AM PST by sasherm13

New research shows that garbage piles produced by leaf-cutter ants emit significant amounts of nitrous oxide—a potent greenhouse gas.

Chemical reactions within the organic waste piles produced by leaf-cutter ants create copious amounts of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide, according to new research published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. These industrious insects aren’t contributing to global warming on the scale of human activities, but their behaviors are fundamentally altering the composition and function of tropical forests—including the way nutrients are transported and recycled.


TOPICS: Outdoors; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: ants; globalwarmingfraud; greenhousegas
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To: sasherm13

Well, that’s the government solution anyway! A taxpayer subsidized anteater breeding program. Oh, how socialists and fascist would rejoice.


21 posted on 01/02/2019 11:54:58 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: sasherm13

The old “Protection” racket repackaged.

“Nice little shop you have here. Be ashamed if something happened to it”

“Nice little beach island you have here. Be ashamed if it sinks into the ocean in thirty years. Pay me now and I will see nothing happens to it in thirty years.”


22 posted on 01/02/2019 11:57:24 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: DannyTN

Fire ants have no use in the circle of life.


23 posted on 01/02/2019 12:01:39 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: sasherm13

Kill the ants!!!


24 posted on 01/02/2019 12:06:51 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: sasherm13

ANT hropogenic.


25 posted on 01/02/2019 12:10:47 PM PST by posterchild (anti-science: thinking a fetus is distinct from a tumor and sex is determined by chromosomes)
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To: sasherm13

bring back DDT!

actually I am serious.


26 posted on 01/02/2019 12:16:32 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: sasherm13
When did the ants have their industrial revolution?
Last time I checked, they rely entirely on labor, not even a single little steam engine has ever been spotted.

The ants and their waste piles are now part of the ecology. Fertilizer.
I would venture that if the ants were suddenly removed, that would be bad.

27 posted on 01/02/2019 12:31:43 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: sasherm13

28 posted on 01/02/2019 12:33:49 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: sasherm13

Coat them with chocolate, and I will eat them!


29 posted on 01/02/2019 12:34:52 PM PST by Fresh Wind (Fox News: "We distort, you deride")
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To: Chickensoup
bring back DDT!

actually I am serious.

Vaxxers suggest that DDT was the cause of the polio epidemic, and eliminating it - rather than instituting the use of the polio vaccine - was the cause of the end of the polio epidemic. They adduce worldwide data to support their case.

I gotta say, their argument almost makes sense.


30 posted on 01/02/2019 12:43:35 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

All the children who died of malaria be damned.


31 posted on 01/02/2019 3:45:33 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
DDT is used by many countries, but not the US.

It is manufactured and exported by China, India & N Korea.

32 posted on 01/02/2019 3:47:35 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: Chickensoup
malaria
Now there is a worthy target for genetic science!

33 posted on 01/02/2019 4:05:51 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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