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Beavers And Climate Change
WFMY News 2 ^ | December 22, 2014

Posted on 12/22/2014 3:46:57 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Researchers at EurekAlert say that our efforts to protect the beaver from extinction have had eco-unfriendly side effects. Beaver’s numbers have rebounded thanks to efforts across the globe to protect them. The new research states that as their numbers rise they are contributing to climate change.

Beavers create dams in shallow ponds, which then can host increasing levels of carbon as biological material accumulates on the pond floor. This accumulation results in methane, a greenhouse gas that does not dissolve in the pond, but instead enters the atmosphere. The study shows that today beaver ponds release 200 times more methane than they did in 1900, a time period when hunting threatened the animal’s existence.

The latest study points to beavers being contributors to climate change while the older study shows that beavers are ‘squirreling away our carbon log by log.’

It will take more time and more research to figure out the beaver’s true role in our ecosystem.

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


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KEYWORDS: beavers; climate; hoax; socialism
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>> Beaver’s numbers have rebounded

And yet birth rates decline.


41 posted on 12/22/2014 5:17:41 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Researchers at EurekAlert “

LOL, what a load.

http://www.eurekalert.org/


42 posted on 12/22/2014 5:20:04 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As a local comedian once said, “Leave it to Beaver” was an R-Rated show!
When one of the kids on the show asked Beaver’s Mom: “Mrs. Cleaver how’s the beaver?”


43 posted on 12/22/2014 5:46:57 PM PST by vette6387
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To: vette6387

There’s more jokes in the post than Buddy Hackett could deal with.


44 posted on 12/22/2014 6:11:29 PM PST by glyptol
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

45 posted on 12/22/2014 6:15:37 PM PST by Brandonmark (There is still hope for our country! 11.04.2014 - DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What, no Canadians here?

46 posted on 12/22/2014 6:29:16 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Our local biologists say the best thing to happen to beaver is to have beaver fur hats and clothing come back into style so they can be harvested. I wonder whether they would be popular in China, where people are more practical and less drama driven?


47 posted on 12/22/2014 6:42:36 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftist totalitarian fascism is on the move.)
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To: vette6387

Dave Barry once speculated on what life would be like for a real boy to have to grow up being known as “the Beaver”, especially in his high school years.


48 posted on 12/22/2014 6:43:04 PM PST by elcid1970 ("I am a radicalized infidel.")
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To: elcid1970

There is a Beaver, Utah, and a Beaver Dam, Nevada.


49 posted on 12/22/2014 6:49:49 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Michael.SF.

What, not beaver barbers?


50 posted on 12/22/2014 7:16:14 PM PST by School of Rational Thought
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Man tries to catch a beaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvjaz0Xbgg

What to do when you’re chasing beaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09YOkVmGg0

Scoring beaver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0LT-RZGXBc

When beavers attack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpj1zgyfScM


51 posted on 12/22/2014 8:23:56 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

America needs beaver.

End of story.


52 posted on 12/22/2014 9:33:19 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

53 posted on 12/23/2014 2:23:32 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Night Hides Not

I blame squirrel farts.


54 posted on 12/23/2014 2:32:23 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: billorites
Here ya go!


55 posted on 12/23/2014 2:35:19 AM PST by xp38
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To: Night Hides Not

Squirreling beavers - sounds like a made for SyFy channel movie.


56 posted on 12/23/2014 8:00:41 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (You can have freedom or government schools. Choose one.)
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To: Gene Eric

..a rebounding beaver

57 posted on 12/23/2014 9:31:40 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The always enjoyable Giant Inflatable Beaver.

58 posted on 12/23/2014 9:33:38 AM PST by dfwgator
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