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Scientists: World’s oldest organism faces threat from global warming
The State Column ^ | February 7, 2012

Posted on 02/07/2012 4:24:23 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

A team of scientists say that sprawling seagrass in the shallows of the Mediterranean may be the oldest living organisms on Earth, far older than humanity itself.

Working off of DNA samples, a team of scientists say clumps of seagrass between Spain and Cyprus could be as old as hundred of thousands of years old.

The study comes as scientists have sought to increase studies concerning how various organisms will face the changes from global warming. The team of scientists studying the seagrass say that the organism is facing threats from higher than normal sea temperatures and pollutants introduced by humans.

The Mediterranean is warming three times faster than the world average and P. oceanica meadows decline annually by around 5 percent, say scientists.

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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"World’s oldest organism faces threat from global warming"

Extinction is the rule.

21 posted on 02/07/2012 4:46:39 PM PST by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Helen Thomas is threatened by Global Warming?? My dear...we got to save her! /s


22 posted on 02/07/2012 4:46:50 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12, don't blame 0 for tearing up the CONSTITUTION!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

SAVE THE SEAGRASS!


23 posted on 02/07/2012 4:52:24 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So when are they gonna start flipping out about Bluegreen algae??

Its only a matter of time, you know it is!


24 posted on 02/07/2012 4:53:20 PM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: SkyDancer

So when did the first amoeba die?


25 posted on 02/07/2012 4:57:31 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No, that would be whorganism not organism.


26 posted on 02/07/2012 5:03:00 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Romney ruined Massachusetts. Now he wants to ruin the nation.)
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To: cripplecreek
A fungus maybe...
27 posted on 02/07/2012 5:06:57 PM PST by metesky (Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Oh, come on ....


28 posted on 02/07/2012 5:09:13 PM PST by SkyDancer ("Never Have Regrets Because At The Time It Was Exactly What You Wanted")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They forgot to mention how this will affect the “Children” hardest.


29 posted on 02/07/2012 5:10:39 PM PST by southernerwithanattitude
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To: NavVet
The Med is warming when even that Global Warming Whacko university in England now admits the globe has been cooling for 15 years.

There must be some reason....

ALL RIGHT! EVERYBODY OUT OF THE POOL!

30 posted on 02/07/2012 5:17:37 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: Danae

They already are....why do you think they want to remove the 4 dams on the Klamath?


31 posted on 02/07/2012 5:23:15 PM PST by goodnesswins (2012..."We mutually pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; SunkenCiv

Using their criteria of ‘oldest’, maybe they should pull down the genes of some amoebae, and examine them the same way.

Slime molds might be anther candidate.

Or any other creature that reproduces by fission: Drill Sergeants, Climate Scientists, Journalists, ....


32 posted on 02/07/2012 5:35:02 PM PST by ApplegateRanch ("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The study comes as scientists have sought to increase studies concerning how various organisms will face the changes from global warming. The team of scientists studying the seagrass say that the organism is facing threats from higher than normal sea temperatures and pollutants introduced by humans.

The team of scientists studying the seagrass say that the organism is facing threats from higher than normal sea temperatures and pollutants introduced by humans. The higher than normal sea temperatures are caused by natural climate change, but that has nothing to do with mankind. Pollutants introduced by humans may be a factor.

Threats to organisms have been occurring and recurring in cycles over the Millenia.

33 posted on 02/07/2012 5:38:00 PM PST by olezip
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Helen Thomas: Old as dinosaur crap and not as good looking.

Or, what is the difference between dinosaur droppings (Copprolites) and Helen Thomas? Only the spelling.


34 posted on 02/07/2012 5:48:05 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: goodnesswins
why do you think they want to remove the 4 dams on the Klamath?

Salmon? Politics? Stupidity?

35 posted on 02/07/2012 5:54:00 PM PST by ApplegateRanch ("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
..may be the oldest living organisms on Earth, far older than humanity itself.

Where DO they keep finding these simpletons ??

</rhetorical>

36 posted on 02/07/2012 6:00:23 PM PST by tomkat (para bellum)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If it rally is that old, it has already been through many periods where the earth was hotter and when the earth was cooler.

Idiot scientists should know that (I’m sure they do, but that wouldn’t support their global warming cult).


37 posted on 02/07/2012 6:03:36 PM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Scientists: World’s oldest organism faces threat from global warming

I'll tell you what's even older, this idea that man is causing global warming. This is getting real old!

38 posted on 02/07/2012 6:07:20 PM PST by mtg
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To: goodnesswins

For bluegreen algae? No. Really?! I thought that was all about some stupid smelt fish.... I wish the hippies would go to mars or something. I am SO sick of the idiocy and total BS the enviro wackos get away with in Oregon.


39 posted on 02/07/2012 6:08:44 PM PST by Danae (Anailnathrach ortha bhais beatha do cheal deanaimha)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Scientists: World’s oldest organism faces threat from global warming

Let me guess - global warming/climate change scientists!!????


(The picture of Helen Thomas was brilliant, btw! LMAO!!)

40 posted on 02/07/2012 6:10:08 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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