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Scientists race to develop farm animals to survive climate change
Los Angeles Times ^ | May 3, 2014 | By Evan Halper

Posted on 05/04/2014 6:55:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

When a team of researchers from the University of Delaware traveled to Africa two years ago to search for exemplary chickens, they weren't looking for plump thighs or delicious eggs.

They were seeking out birds that could survive a hotter planet.

The researchers were in the vanguard of food scientists, backed by millions of dollars from the federal government, racing to develop new breeds of farm animals that can stand up to the hazards of global warming.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climategate; failure; globalwanking; hoax; manbearpig; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shouldn’t cheap, plentiful energy, be the primary solution to ANY climate change, or ANY weather, hot or cold?


61 posted on 05/04/2014 9:23:13 AM PDT by ansel12 ((Libertarianism offers the transitory concepts and dialogue to move from conservatism, to liberalism)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“researchers from the University of Delaware traveled to Africa two years ago to search for exemplary chickens,”

So what they are saying is that chickens adapted to hot/dry and hot/wet climates already exist and feed part of the world. If warming were to increase these chickens would have an advantage over temperate climate chickens. If no change occurs, the balance of current chickendom prevails. Problem solved.


62 posted on 05/04/2014 10:00:04 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: ansel12
Shouldn’t cheap, plentiful energy, be the primary solution to ANY climate change, or ANY weather, hot or cold?

EXACTLY !!!

That is one reason why Obama is doing everything he can to eliminate cheap, plentiful energy.

They aren't interested in solving problems, they are interested in using them to gain advantage.

They don't want to solve the imaginary G.W. crisis any more than they want to win the "War On Poverty" or the bogus "War On Women".

They want to keep these issues alive to keep us divided, gain leverage, win elections and steal as much money as possible.


63 posted on 05/04/2014 10:08:36 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Besides, with the coming ice age, they better prepare for a 1-2 degree DECREASE in temperatures. The idiots misread the plus and minus signs

Yeah,....and a 1.2 degree drop in global temperatures results in an estimated 21% drop in grain production....

No grains...no bread...chickens...beef....and a lot less humans.

more at: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/08/the-climate-grain-production-relationship-quantified/

64 posted on 05/04/2014 10:18:52 AM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

don’t you know that during the Roman and Midieval warming periods and the last ice age ALL LIFE ON EARTH FAILED TO ADAPT AND VANISHED!!!!! /sarc


65 posted on 05/04/2014 10:30:47 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Free grant money to anyone who will try to prove global warming taxes to ensue to recover grant money.


66 posted on 05/04/2014 10:31:10 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: dforest
This is the dumbest crap I have ever heard.

You can't make this stuff up.

67 posted on 05/04/2014 10:34:35 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t waste that money; put it good use mitigating global warming with a double whammy!

Carbon moderates nuclear reactions, so...

CO^2 can be adsorbed out of the atmosphere, and the O^2 stripped off; then that C can be packed into rockets and sent on slow spiral (low-fuel) orbits to the sun. This gets CO^2 out of the atmosphere, reducing Earth’s fever.

The carbon moderate the sun’s nuclear reactions, reducing solar output. This will also cool Earth’s fever.

Disclaimer: I own stock in some ailing goose down & wool parka companies.


68 posted on 05/04/2014 10:35:52 AM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Sacajaweau

if we told our “girls” what you just said, they’d develop a complex, and stop laying.

most breeds live 3 years, select others, up to five years.

we’re running a bit of a retirement home here, as we have a “no kill” policy in effect. Ladies who’ve quit laying after their four hundred or so eggs are kept on as “social advisers” and “community organizers”.

the damn rooster is one lucky SOB as well.


69 posted on 05/04/2014 10:52:24 AM PDT by telstar12.5 (...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
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To: telstar12.5

One of my clients was a farmer. They also had 2000 egg laying chickens, replacing 1000 each year. So who got 1000 chickens every year.....Campbells Soups. Because they were still doing this in the early 60s, I figured my kids were eating their chickens.


70 posted on 05/04/2014 10:57:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: telstar12.5

Henny Penny — Community Organizer Extraordinaire. LOL>


71 posted on 05/04/2014 11:11:55 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Iron Munro

“Have they lost faith in evolution?”

No they haven’t. In fact, what they are trying to do is speed it up by a factor of a 100,000 times.


72 posted on 05/04/2014 11:20:09 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
No they haven’t. In fact, what they are trying to do is speed it up by a factor of a 100,000 times.

Yeah - I was thinking of natural evolution.


73 posted on 05/04/2014 2:17:22 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Are scientists really that stupid?


74 posted on 05/04/2014 2:18:09 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: lepton
1-2 degrees Celsius...

At worst, South Carolina will chickens will be needed in NC, and NC chickens in VA. It's silly to pretend that this is a crisis..

75 posted on 05/04/2014 3:45:46 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Iron Munro

Well, my point was that not only do the researchers believe in evolution, they are trying to take advantage of it and practice it themselves.


76 posted on 05/04/2014 6:01:32 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
Well, my point was that not only do the researchers believe in evolution, they are trying to take advantage of it and practice it themselves.

Understood.

It all goes back to the idea that they arrogantly think they are more capable than the natural forces that have worked well enough for several billion years to bring us to this point.

Most of the American south (where the weather is already hot) is being over-run by wild pigs.

Maybe they can mate a wild pig with a chicken and produce an animal that African muslims will eat.

That would solve at least two problems right there.


77 posted on 05/04/2014 6:17:36 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: Iron Munro

Take a look at GMO crops and tell me that they aren’t having any success.


78 posted on 05/04/2014 7:49:45 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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