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Alien Invasion: The Fungus That Came to Canada - VICTORIA, B.C.
The Washington Post ^
| 4/7/07
| Doug Struck
Posted on 04/07/2007 6:30:18 PM PDT by ricks_place
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This fungus shows up eight years ago apparently brought to North America by a warming climate probably brought to North America by imported tropical plants!
To: ricks_place
I’m more concerned with Victoria dumping all of of its raw sewage directly into the sea.
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:33:15 PM PDT
by
proudpapa
(Forget Rudy McRomney it's Duncan Hunter in '08!)
To: ricks_place
Well any tropical bugs in IN are frozen and dead by now cause it is cold here!!!!!
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:34:21 PM PDT
by
Kimmers
(Coram Deo)
To: Kimmers
26 degrees here tonight but it’s supposed to get cold.
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:36:18 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
To: ricks_place
If it was the warming that caused it, why haven't we seen it here in Florida?
It's getting to be a running joke looking news articles to see how they are going to work global warming into the subject.
Maybe they get prizes for the scariest ones each month.
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:37:42 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
To: capt. norm
Microfauna seem to be distributed at random across the face of the Earth, with very few of them (relatively speaking) dependent on particular climates.
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:39:58 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: LucyT
To: Kimmers
Well any tropical bugs in IN are frozen and dead by now cause it is cold here!!!!!Don't depend on cold to solve the problem. Many of the bacteria that I used in my microbiology labs arrived as freeze dried specimens in a dry test tube. Killing them required an autoclave that combines pressure, temperature and moisture for a sufficient period of time.
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:46:54 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: ricks_place
a tropical disease apparently brought to North America by a warming climate. Oh please. This is just stupid.
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:49:47 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
("We have always been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France"--Wellington)
To: muawiyah
We seem to be on the receiving end of a lot of accidentally introduced critters here in Florida.
A problem that's really starting to get out of hand now comes from tropical fish farms that raised a lot of exotic varieties in special ponds.
No problem until flooding washed the whole collection into the nearest stream/river, and you can see where that leads.
By the way, you CAN catch a piranha in Florida, but they aren't like you see them in the movies.
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:52:42 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
To: ricks_place
"There's a fungus among us" Fred Sanford 1973c.
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:56:39 PM PDT
by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: capt. norm
The only question to be asked of a fish is “how does it taste”.
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posted on
04/07/2007 6:59:14 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: BallyBill
"There's a fungus among us" Fred Sanford 1973c.I wish someone would put out a book of his wisecracks.
My favorite was one of his comebacks to Aunt Esther.
She says to him "Well I wasn't born yesterday!"
Fred: "I know....you can't get that ugly in 24 hours".
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posted on
04/07/2007 7:00:41 PM PDT
by
capt. norm
(Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
To: capt. norm
If it was the warming that caused it, why haven't we seen it here in Florida? Because really nasty bugs wait dormant in the cold areas. It is demonstrated in the episode Ice of X-Files
If you do not listen to the Al Gore's warnings and do not sign the Kyoto treaty, the nature will punish you!
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posted on
04/07/2007 7:05:51 PM PDT
by
A. Pole
(Warm is bad, cold is good! We should bring Ice Age back so polar bears can multiply!)
To: ricks_place
Is there ANYTHING going on in the world today that is NOT caused by “global warming”? This is getting ridiculous.
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posted on
04/07/2007 7:09:22 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Veritas. Gravitas. Ohmygas.)
To: capt. norm
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posted on
04/07/2007 7:10:40 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Veritas. Gravitas. Ohmygas.)
To: ricks_place
And don't it itch!
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posted on
04/07/2007 7:20:53 PM PDT
by
Graymatter
(FREDeralist)
To: neverdem
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posted on
04/07/2007 7:22:06 PM PDT
by
Born Conservative
(Chronic Positivity - http://jsher.livejournal.com/)
To: ricks_place
"... slipping a slide under her microscope -- a tissue from a dog ..."
You mean a tissue sample from this dog ...
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posted on
04/07/2007 7:27:27 PM PDT
by
MaDeuce
(Do it to them, before they do it to you! (MaDeuce = John Browning's gift to freedom))
To: ricks_place
Tell Hillary she can STAY in Canada!
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posted on
04/07/2007 7:28:26 PM PDT
by
Silly
(plasticpie.com)
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