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Industrial Waste From Ants Emits Potent Greenhouse Gas
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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.
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posted on
01/02/2019 11:54:58 AM PST
by
vpintheak
(Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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.”
To: DannyTN
Fire ants have no use in the circle of life.
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posted on
01/02/2019 12:01:39 PM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: sasherm13
To: sasherm13
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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)
To: sasherm13
bring back DDT!
actually I am serious.
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posted on
01/02/2019 12:16:32 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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.
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posted on
01/02/2019 12:31:43 PM PST
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: sasherm13
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posted on
01/02/2019 12:33:49 PM PST
by
seawolf101
(Member LES DEPLORABLES)
To: sasherm13
Coat them with chocolate, and I will eat them!
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posted on
01/02/2019 12:34:52 PM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Fox News: "We distort, you deride")
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.
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
All the children who died of malaria be damned.
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posted on
01/02/2019 3:45:33 PM PST
by
Chickensoup
(Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
DDT is used by many countries, but not the US.
It is manufactured and exported by China, India & N Korea.
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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)
To: Chickensoup
malaria Now there is a worthy target for genetic science!
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