We done broked Antarctica??

[Lucas]

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2...hunk-of-a.html

bees

bats

[Lucas]

all the bats migrated to the batcave. but since batman doesnt report this its still a mystery.

[sanjuro_ronin]

Originally Posted by Lucas

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2...hunk-of-a.html

Not the first or the last.

[Black Jack II]

Zero conclusive proof that mankind had anything to do with that or the other two listed issues.

[sanjuro_ronin]

Originally Posted by Black Jack II

Zero conclusive proof that mankind had anything to do with that or the other two listed issues.

He's right * puts away chisel*

[WinterPalm]

There's no way humanity has been able to change anything on this planet. Just look at the terrain globally, we haven't changed anything.

[Black Jack II]

It's called colony collapse disorder and it has happened in history many, many, times.

Way before global bull**** warming was a cult-buzz word.

[TenTigers]

well, don't think for one minute you're all gonna convince me otherwise. We as humans are personally resposnible for the hole in the ozone layer and subsequent global warming.

And I am all for it.
That is why I use aerosol spray cans for everything. Spray everything. spray deoderant, spray paint, hair spray,breath spray,spray on band-aids, I even stopped buying regular cheese. I only use the spray cheese in the can.
I'm gonna have my own hole in the ozone, right over my front yard, so Next winter, I can sit out on my lounge,sipping Pina coladas out of a coconut cup (with the little umbrella) with my sun reflector, while watching that fat bastid across the street bust his hump shoveling his driveway!
"Careful of your back there, Buddy! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!"

(never did like that guy. One of those dumfuk gavonnes. "I don't care how much kurotty you know..." yeah, yeah. STFU)

Originally Posted by Black Jack II

Zero conclusive proof that mankind had anything to do with that or the other two listed issues.

define "conclusive" - do you need, like, a bee coming up to you and saying "hey man, you fu(ked us"? or do you only consider blatant linear cause and effect to be an acceptable form of "proof"? the planetary ecology is a complex system, meaning that a lot of the stresses can be absorbed and compensated for for some time before they show up, sometimes in unexpected ways (just like the human body in response to repetitive strain / chronic misues: why does you left shoulder hurt when the only injury you had was to your right ankle? probably for the same reason you now get headaches subsequent to a hard fall on your butt...)

Originally Posted by Black Jack II

It's called colony collapse disorder and it has happened in history many, many, times.

it has happened several times in the last century (and certainly may have occurred prior to records being kept), but what is at issue is the unprecedented frequency and amplitude of the current die-offs; consider that a century ago artificial breeding of queen bees began, that ~50 years ago they started being trucked around the country to pollinate crops, and only still more recently that GMO crops and a new class of nicotine-based pesticides have been in wide spread use, and couple that with ongoing loss of natural habitat, climate change, increased EMFs, pollution, etc. and it is readily apparent that we have had a significant impact on bee populations over the last 100 years in terms of adding stressors;

to wit, from Wikipedia:
"From 1971 to 2006, there was a dramatic reduction in the number of feral (wild) honeybees in the US (now almost absent);[11] and a significant, though somewhat gradual decline in the number of colonies maintained by beekeepers. This decline includes the cumulative losses from all factors such as urbanization, pesticide use, tracheal and Varroa mites, and commercial beekeepers retiring and going out of business. However, late in the year 2006 and in early 2007 the rate of attrition was alleged to have reached new proportions, and the term "Colony Collapse Disorder" was proposed to describe this sudden rash of disappearances.[1]
Limited occurrences resembling CCD have been documented as early as 1896,[6][12] and this set of symptoms has in the past several decades been given many different names (disappearing disease, spring dwindle, May disease, autumn collapse, and fall dwindle disease).[13] Most recently, a similar phenomenon in the winter of 2004/2005 occurred, and was attributed to Varroa mites (the "Vampire Mite" scare), though this was never ultimately confirmed. Nobody has been able to determine the cause of any past appearances of this syndrome. Upon recognition that the syndrome does not seem to be seasonally-restricted, and that it may not be a "disease" in the standard sense — that there may not be a specific causative agent — the syndrome was renamed.[14]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder

[jo]

I really feel sorry for those believe that there is an unlimited supply of fresh air and clean water and that we cannot pollute the planet enough to have any effect on the environment.

-jo

[TenTigers]

http://blogs.reuters.com/blog/2006/1...n-your-pocket/

[TenTigers]

oh my Lord, it gets better....http://www.gizmag.com/go/6534/

[kwaichang]

If you knock over one dominoe the others tend to fall as well KC

[TenTigers]

this might be the answer to the Mid-East crisis. If we can spray enough hydrocarbons into the atmosphere,then we can harness that extra solar energy that will be made available.
This, my friends, is not only the solution to the oil shortage, but perhaps I have discovered perpetual motion.
Methinks I see a Nobel prize on the horizen....



http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...arplastic.html