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Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Rapidly shrinking Arctic ice could spell trouble for the rest of the world

METHANE.

Gulf stream shut down, ice covered Europe and North Amerikkka be damned. It's the METHANE rich air that will end mammal dominance.
Already it seeps slowly into the air, returning the atmosphere to an historical state that gave world dominance to dinosaurs.
Maybe dinosaurs died out because their environment reached the tipping point.

This was not always an oxygen rich environment. Well, if you are a fundie Christian the percentage of content of various gases in the atmosphere doesn't matter one drop to you. You believe Adam walked with dinosaurs, needing the same things from the ecosystem they did, and humans, in their god given dominion over earth, can do whatever they please to the environment without consequence. God will take care. As long as you put money in the collection plate, stymie all your sexual urges, sport Bush bumper stickers on your gigantic, gas guzzling vehicles, HATE, HATE with all your heart and SNEER at anyone with different ideas.

Methane.
Creatures who breathe it might survive the meltdown. Maybe a few repiglikkkans fundies will make it through.

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