Harvard study: global warming may end threat of mummies

American Thinker ^ | Pedro Gonzales

[smokingfrog]

For generations, books, films, and TV have warned us of the danger of mummies. In their crypts they are relatively harmless, but when they rise from the dead and start strangling people, as they did in the Cotswolds of south central England in “Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars,” they become a much greater threat.

But this problem may shortly be solved, thanks to global warming.

The world’s oldest mummies are at risk of disappearing because of man-made climate change, according to a group of Harvard University scientists.

Bodies mummified about 7,000 years ago in Chile are starting to rapidly degrade, the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences said Monday in an e-mailed statement.

At the Harvard School of Engineering, they are working on the world's most important technical problems, hopefully on a federal grant.

Tests by Harvard’s Alice DeAraujo and Ralph Mitchell show that microbes that flourish in an increasingly humid climate are turning the preserved remains of Chinchorro hunter-gatherers into “black ooze.”

Isn't that fascinating? There has been no global warming, man-made or otherwise, in 17 years, and yet the mere threat of global warming has caused microbes to flourish and destroy the mummies!

[BenLurkin]

Just d-mn

[uglybiker]

So basically what you're saying is:

If you get killed by a mummy, it's your own damn fault.