"Fran" <Fran.Beta@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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Apr 9, 9:47 am, Roger Coppock <rcopp...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> ScienceDaily (Apr. 7, 2008) -- You know that green s*** creeping
> across
> the surface of your local public water reservoir? Or maybe it's
> choking out a favorite fi****ng spot or livestock watering hole. It's
> probably cyanobacteria -- blue-green algae -- and, according to a
> paper in the April 4 issue of the journal Science, it relishes the
> weather extremes that accompany global warming.
>
> Hans Paerl, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute of
> Marine Sciences Professor and co-author of the Science paper, calls
> the algae the "cockroach of lakes." It's everywhere and it's hard to
> exterminate -- but when the sun comes up it doesn't scurry to a
> corner, it's still there, and it's growing, as thick as 3 feet in some
> areas.
>
> The algae has been linked to digestive, neurological and skin diseases
> and fatal liver disease in humans. It costs municipal water systems
> many millions of dollars to treat in the United States alone. And
> though it's more prevalent in developing countries, it grows on key
> bodies of water across the world, including Lake Victoria in Africa,
> the Baltic Sea, Lake Erie and bays of the Great Lakes, Florida's Lake
> Okeechobee and in the main reservoir for Raleigh, N.C.
Algal blooms are also a regular event in the world's oceans.
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And have been for aeons!
Do you have a point?
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
"Attributing global climate change to human CO2 production is akin to
trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine
(analogous to the Sun in the climate system) and the transmission (water
vapour) and instead focusing entirely, not on one nut on a rear wheel,
which would be analogous to total CO2, but on one thread on that nut,
which represents the human contribution." Dr. Timothy Ball, Chairman of
the Natural Resources Steward****p Project (NRSP.com), Former Professor
Of Climatology, University of Winnipeg
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