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July 20, 2008
Oh noes!
WASHINGTON, July 20 (Reuters) - The world's wetlands, threatened by development, dehydration and climate change, could release a planet-warming "carbon bomb" if they are destroyed, ecological scientists said on Sunday.
Wetlands contain 771 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the carbon on Earth and about the same amount of carbon as is now in the atmosphere, the scientists said before an international conference linking wetlands and global warming.
If all the wetlands on the planet released the carbon they hold, it would contribute powerfully to the climate-warming greenhouse effect, said Paulo Teixeira, coordinator of the Pantanal Regional Environment Program in Brazil.
"We could call it the carbon bomb," Teixeira said by telephone from from Cuiaba, Brazil, site of the conference. "It's a very tricky situation."
Yeah, and if pigs could fly, they just might reach very high altitudes, if they did, maybe they could cause airplane crashes because said flying pigs just might possibly fly into said airplanes and cause death to the pigs and death to people and destruction to airplanes and if that happened, then maybe pieces of those pigs and pieces of those people and pieces of those airplanes would more than likely rain down from the sky, possibly killing other people too, and crushing buildings and cars and other things, likely making a great big old mess that would further pollute Mother Earth. We could even call it the pig bomb and of course, even if its not probable, its entirely possible so we should do something to prevent it right away because we could all die if it happened!
Oh noes! We're all going to die!
Posted by LindaSoG at July 20, 2008 04:30 PM
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Oh noes! We're all going to die!
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Yep, sooner or later!!
Posted by: TexasFred at July 20, 2008 04:56 PM
This is horrible Linda, we are destroying Lilliput and only Al Gore can save us. About that horses ass Gore.
Jonathan Swift was born before his time. "Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt, and not erroneously Brobdingnag), and Laputa, I have never yet heard of any Yahoo so presumptuous as to dispute their being, or the facts I have related concerning them; because the truth immediately strikes every reader with conviction. And is there less probability in my account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many thousands even in this country, who only differ from their brother brutes in Houyhnhnmland, because they use a sort of jabber, and do not go naked? I wrote for their amendment, and not their approbation. The united praise of the whole race would be of less consequence to me, than the neighing of those two degenerate Houyhnhnms I keep in my stable; because from these, degenerate as they are, I still improve in some virtues without any mixture of vice.
Do these miserable animals presume to think, that I am so degenerated as to defend my veracity? Yahoo as I am, it is well known through all Houyhnhnmland, that, by the instructions and example of my illustrious master, I was able in the compass of two years (although I confess with the utmost difficulty) to remove that infernal habit of lying, shuffling, deceiving, and equivocating, so deeply rooted in the very souls of all my species;especially the Europeans."
Hope you are doing well:)
Posted by: Jack at July 22, 2008 12:46 AM
Now THAT is satire, Linda. The New Yorker needs to learn from you.
Do you suppose that the authors of the "carbon bomb" thought that all the wetlands were going to go away at once?
Jack--thanks for the "Gulliver's Travels" quote.
Posted by: Kevin K. at July 22, 2008 09:22 AM