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UK Telegraph: 'Humans Could Evolve Webbed Feet if Sea Levels Rise'
newsbusters.org ^ | Jan. 13, 2016 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 01/13/2016 10:06:02 AM PST by PROCON

Quack! Quack!

Be advised that the article you are about to read did not appear in The Onion. However, it is completely understandable if that is what you think because the story, which appeared in the U.K. Telegraph, takes Global Warming Alarmism to such an extreme that it has passed from the absolutely absurd into the completely hilarious. Just how laughable is the article? So funny that The Telegraph science editor, Sarah Knapton seriously quotes a (quack?) scientist proposing that the rise of sea levels could cause humans to evolve webbed hands and feet:

The perils of climate change are well known, but rising sea levels could also alter human evolution, scientists have claimed.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: climatechange; fishman; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; mutations; sealevelrise; webbedfeet
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And Gills!

Water World Alert!

1 posted on 01/13/2016 10:06:03 AM PST by PROCON
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To: PJ-Comix

Bump, thanks PJ!


2 posted on 01/13/2016 10:06:29 AM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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Some people will actually worry about this, much more so than very real everyday problems. There is a certain escapism in worrying about apocalyptic global warming problems.


3 posted on 01/13/2016 10:08:01 AM PST by lacrew
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Can somebody slap them? For God’s sake the world is being run by idiots who think they’re geniuses.


4 posted on 01/13/2016 10:08:31 AM PST by Shadow44
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To: PROCON

We will all grow rowboats from our asses too.


5 posted on 01/13/2016 10:11:32 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Shadow44
"Look, it's Detroit!"


6 posted on 01/13/2016 10:12:29 AM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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I’m going to just stand on the coast and after a while I’ll be Aquaman.


7 posted on 01/13/2016 10:13:17 AM PST by DouglasKC (I'm pro-choice when it comes to lion killing....)
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To: PROCON

8 posted on 01/13/2016 10:14:57 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: PROCON
From the DT comments:

If it rains a lot more then can we also expect one of our arms to evolve into an umbrella?

and also

Will the ruling elites develop sticky fingers to count the rolls of cash?

9 posted on 01/13/2016 10:15:49 AM PST by agere_contra (Hamas has dug miles of tunnels - but no bomb-shelters.)
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To: PROCON

What a moron, we humans are designed to build tools to make the need for evolution obsolete.


10 posted on 01/13/2016 10:15:54 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: PROCON

MERMAIDS!!! How come the Polynesians have not developed these traits?


11 posted on 01/13/2016 10:16:21 AM PST by C19fan
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To: PROCON

Also the idiot saying an ice age would make taller people due to cold, has he not noticed that Eskimos are SHORT!

What a moron idiot this so called scientist is.


12 posted on 01/13/2016 10:19:37 AM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: PROCON

So they believe in Lamarckism? Are they against science?


13 posted on 01/13/2016 10:19:42 AM PST by oblomov
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14 posted on 01/13/2016 10:22:04 AM PST by Bratch
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“All my life I’ve been waiting for someone and when I find her, she’s... she’s a fish.”


15 posted on 01/13/2016 10:23:02 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: PROCON

Junk science gone awry.


16 posted on 01/13/2016 10:25:33 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. - Psalm 33:12)
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To: PROCON

And vegetarians will turn into cows.


17 posted on 01/13/2016 10:26:51 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Well, they may turn into manatees. :-)


18 posted on 01/13/2016 10:28:42 AM PST by PROCON (Proud CRUZader!)
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To: PROCON

Bookmark.


19 posted on 01/13/2016 10:28:49 AM PST by aquila48
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To: PROCON
Eh, they've been around for a while.


20 posted on 01/13/2016 10:32:05 AM PST by Dr.Deth
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