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Report: Save the Whales and They'll Save Us from Global Warming (ROFL)
American Thinker ^
| April 27, 2010
| Marc Sheppard
Posted on 04/27/2010 1:35:53 PM PDT by jazusamo
Need more proof that Global Warming is the problem to environmentalists solutions? Take a whiff of this.
Researchers from the Australian Antarctic Division have announced that increased whale excrement in our oceans could help fight global warming by encouraging the growth of carbon dioxide-consuming algae. It seems the iron-rich droppings help spark blooms of phytoplankton, which in turn help regulate the oceans carbon sink capabilities.
Researcher Steve Nicol claimed that a larger population of baleen whales in the Southern Ocean would do the trick, but admitted that just how much excrement it would take to have any significant impact remains unknown. I suspect youre way ahead of my response to that line, so Ill save some typing.
But all manure is not created equal by greenie standards. In fact, up until now, animal waste has been right up there with that of internal-combustion engines and coal-fired power plants on the environmentalists Feces List.
Indeed, everyone from IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) insists that the feces and farts emanating from (primarily raised for food) cows and pigs exacerbate global warming by nature of their high methane content.
So just when is animal dung good for the planet and when is it bad?
Were I a cynic, Id question the apparent relationship between the green position on mans interaction with a creature and the virtues of that which issues from its hind quarters. Indeed, enviros would have us all refrain from consuming meat, and claim that the waste-products of the meat we eat are bad. On the other hand, those same enviros implore us to stop killing whales, and their brown waste is suddenly green gold.
And talk about timing. The whale-poo announcement comes just weeks prior to an International Whaling Commission meeting to consider new open-sea limit proposals that environmental groups believe would open the door to killing thousands of whales which have been protected for 25 years.
Would someone please light a match?
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: environuts; whales
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And talk about timing.Sea Shepardists Paul Watson and his looney tunes say it's just a coincidence. ROFL!
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:35:53 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
To: steelyourfaith
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:36:32 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
Wasn’t this sorta the plot of Star Trek 4?
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:38:57 PM PDT
by
Tublecane
To: jazusamo
ROFLMAO ... Proof that the last nail has been driven in the coffin of the global warming liars.
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:40:06 PM PDT
by
Tarpon
( ...Rude crude socialist Obama depends on ignorance to force his will on people)
To: Tublecane
Beats me but it sounds like it sure could have been. :)
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:42:04 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: All
Please bump the Freepathon and donate if you havent done so!
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:43:02 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: Tublecane
You mean the one where Chekov asked which way to the nuclear wessels, and Scotty exclaimed “There be whales here!”?
Kirk’s babe wasn’t even that hot.
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:44:31 PM PDT
by
swain_forkbeard
(Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
To: Tublecane
Wasnt this sorta the plot of Star Trek 4?You and jazusamo beat me to it!!
Oh, well, great minds . . . . . !!
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:46:18 PM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: jazusamo
I smell some excrement of the bovine variety here...
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:47:41 PM PDT
by
ZirconEncrustedTweezers
(Progressives are everything they accuse their opponents of being.)
To: TigersEye; metmom
” ... increased whale excrement in our oceans could help fight global warming ...”
... ehem ...
[Loony left classic.]
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:47:57 PM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(Weakening McCain strengthens our borders, weakens guest worker aka amnesty)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:49:43 PM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(Weakening McCain strengthens our borders, weakens guest worker aka amnesty)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
“... increased whale excrement in our oceans could help fight global warming ...”
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:52:38 PM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(Weakening McCain strengthens our borders, weakens guest worker aka amnesty)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers; null and void
I love the way Rowan Atkinson pronounces “algae”. [Saving Mum]
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:54:03 PM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(Weakening McCain strengthens our borders, weakens guest worker aka amnesty)
To: jazusamo
Save the males not the wales!
To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Thanks for your links! I wasn’t aware of them and will have to spend some time there.
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posted on
04/27/2010 1:58:56 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
This is one of the best in the list. =]
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posted on
04/27/2010 2:00:32 PM PDT
by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(Weakening McCain strengthens our borders, weakens guest worker aka amnesty)
To: Tublecane
I don’t recall whale dung being mentioned but the threatening object was some huge cylinder that I likened to a tootsie roll. I suppose it could have been some big alien dung object.
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posted on
04/27/2010 2:00:39 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: jazusamo
But whales I imagine also give off huge smelly methane farts. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas.
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posted on
04/27/2010 2:03:15 PM PDT
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: jazusamo
ROFL!
To: jazusamo
What? Whale crap will save the planet? All this time I thought unicorn crap would save us.
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posted on
04/27/2010 2:04:04 PM PDT
by
4yearlurker
("No King but King Jesus!")
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