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To: PowderMonkey

When I was googling around a bit to try to figure out why I couldn’t find any acorns this year, I read on one site that oak trees seem to have evolved a strategy to produce almost no acorns in occasional years. The theory is that this keeps the population of acorn-eating critters from ballooning to the point where all the acorns would get gobbled up every year, leaving none to grow into new oak trees. Makes sense, and since apparently this has been observed before, it strikes me as a lot more likely than the alarmist “climate change” theory.


19 posted on 12/02/2008 9:14:47 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Brilliant!


25 posted on 12/02/2008 9:57:34 AM PST by bvw
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To: GovernmentShrinker
When I was googling around a bit to try to figure out why I couldn’t find any acorns this year, I read on one site that oak trees seem to have evolved a strategy to produce almost no acorns in occasional years. The theory is that this keeps the population of acorn-eating critters from ballooning to the point where all the acorns would get gobbled up every year, leaving none to grow into new oak trees. Makes sense, and since apparently this has been observed before, it strikes me as a lot more likely than the alarmist “climate change” theory.

No way!
This is GoreBull Warming for sure.
Rove and Bush and Cheney.
...all those baby squirrels...

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27 posted on 12/02/2008 10:03:10 AM PST by Bon mots
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