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Global warming boosts poison ivy (grasping at straws alert!)
Yahoo News via AP ^ | 5/30/2006 | AP

Posted on 05/29/2006 3:38:02 PM PDT by DemforBush

WASHINGTON - Another reason to worry about global warming: more and itchier poison ivy. The noxious vine grows faster and bigger as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rise, researchers report Monday...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; environment; globalwarming; globalwarmingping; herewegoagain; poisonivy; weredoomed
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Good grief!
1 posted on 05/29/2006 3:38:04 PM PDT by DemforBush
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To: DemforBush

Guess I should be glad it doesn't make me itch. Survival of the fittest.


2 posted on 05/29/2006 3:39:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: DemforBush
poison ivy

Lord, will make you itch!

3 posted on 05/29/2006 3:40:29 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Proud soldier in the American Army of Occupation..)
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To: DemforBush

"Global warming boosts poison ivy" ----ROUNDUP DOES'NT!!!


4 posted on 05/29/2006 3:41:10 PM PDT by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: Mike Darancette

You're gonna need an ocean

of cal-a-mine lotion!


:)


5 posted on 05/29/2006 3:41:34 PM PDT by DemforBush
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To: DemforBush

Global Warming causes Summer!


6 posted on 05/29/2006 3:41:38 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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To: DemforBush
Global warming boosts poison ivy

But if we try to cut back on poison ivy it'll become endangered.

Thus, a vicious circle is born.

7 posted on 05/29/2006 3:42:19 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: DemforBush

Global warming stole my bike. :(


8 posted on 05/29/2006 3:42:32 PM PDT by Spruce (Keep your mitts off my wallet)
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To: Darkwolf377

We didn't listen!!!!


9 posted on 05/29/2006 3:43:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: DemforBush

Must be a reeeeeeelly slow news day at Yahoo.


10 posted on 05/29/2006 3:43:39 PM PDT by Clara Lou (A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. --I. Kristol)
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To: Mike Darancette
poison ivy

Lord, will make you itch!

You're gonna need an ocean.......of calamine lotion.

11 posted on 05/29/2006 3:43:57 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: DemforBush
The noxious vine grows faster and bigger as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rise, researchers report Monday...

Errrrr....seeing as how all plant life turns carbon dioxide into oxygen, wouldn't all plant life grow faster and bigger as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rise?

12 posted on 05/29/2006 3:46:18 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: DemforBush

Deer, cattle, horses goats and birds eat poison ivy. It's a good thing.


13 posted on 05/29/2006 3:47:28 PM PDT by melt (I nominate Al Gore for the Achademy Award.)
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To: DemforBush
As all plants breath carbon dioxide, all plants to include poison Ivy will grow faster and bigger as carbon dioxide levels rise in the atmosphere. But as plants grow faster and bigger, they deplete the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and a balance is reached.

Yes, these "Global Warming" ninnies are really grasping at straws here.

14 posted on 05/29/2006 3:48:00 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: DemforBush
BREAKING NEWS: Global warming caused by the SUN!!!!

/film at 11

15 posted on 05/29/2006 3:48:13 PM PDT by Normal4me
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To: DemforBush

I'm not allergic to poison ivy. Just to penicillin and Liberal Democrats.


16 posted on 05/29/2006 3:48:34 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: DaveLoneRanger

ping for your amusement


17 posted on 05/29/2006 3:52:34 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: cripplecreek
Kudzu vs. Poison Ivy--Challenge of the Deathplants

Onnnnn--SciFi!

If Al Gore can make a movie about this stuff...

18 posted on 05/29/2006 3:52:37 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: cripplecreek
We didn't listen!!!!

Our grandchildren will curse us for doing nothing as they face an itchy future. Calomine Lotion will become the new petroleum! Madness!!!!!!!!!

19 posted on 05/29/2006 3:54:58 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: DemforBush

Just think! We're paying for this "research." We're doomed!


20 posted on 05/29/2006 3:56:47 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Freedom or a baloney sandwich? A DemocRAT will ALWAYS choose the baloney sandwich.)
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