Posted on 10/05/2014 10:23:12 AM PDT by WhiskeyX
A strange green organism has spread around the globe, clogging up the world's rivers
It began with a few small strange patches of slime, clinging to the rocks of the Heber River in Canada. Within a year, the patches had become thick, blooming mats. Within a few years the mats had grown into a giant green snot. And within a few decades this snot had spread around the world, clogging up rivers as far away as South America, Europe and Australasia.
This snot, which is still flourishing today, is caused by a microscopic alga, a diatom that goes by its scientific name Didymosphenia geminata. It has become so notorious it has its own moniker, Didymo. People have been blamed for the sudden, global explosion of this tiny organism, unwittingly carrying the algae from river to river on fishing gear, boats and kayaks. The huge snots it forms have wreaked havoc in waterways, forcing governments and environmental organisations to initiate huge and costly clean-up operations.
But underlying the snots’ strange appearance is an even stranger story. About Didymo itself, about what it is, and how it behaves.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
3,2,1......GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!
Can’t get welfare people to clean the algal “boogers” out of the rivers?
"Related to this discovery is an extreme irony. Governments and organisations around the world have, for a very long time, tried to stop algal blooms from strangling rivers by reducing phosphorous pollution, believing the algal feed off this nutrient boost. But in doing so, they might have encouraged the green snot that is Didymo...“It goes against everything we’ve been thinking for 50 years,” says Spaulding."
I’m sending this PING achoo!
This was predicted in KJV Acts 20:31 but you have to say it quickly 3 times out loud to understand the prophecy.
Save the planet, stop the Green movement!
Ping to post #4.
Never heard anyone refer to algea blooms as snots before. Weird.
“... forcing governments and environmental organisations to initiate huge and costly clean-up operations.”
Is this diatom armed with an “assault rifle”?
There are lots of green snots at the universities.
I could have lived without seeing headlines like this
“3,2,1......GLOBAL WARMING!!!!!!!!!!”
You got it.
Does anyone believe this melodramatic hogwash anymore?
Resume using TSP....
When you’re smooching’ with your Honey,
And her nose is getting’ runny,
Dontcha think it’s funny,
Cuz its not!
“If you think it’s butter, but it’s snot....it’s Chiffon.”
Algae has been forming in rivers, and streams around the World from the beginning of time. Read sometime ago about some scientist, or alleged scientist put forth a theory about the evolution of mankind from that algae. Probably a satire, but that was around the 1960’s when I read that, and that was about the time the radicals started saying anything that rattled around in their cages, and still are.
Never heard it called “green snot” before.
Liberals are humanity that didn’t quite develop in the tray.
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