First, the alleged problem:
"Journey to the New World"
"by Colin Nickerson, Globe Staff | March 4, 2008
Monkey predecessors so tiny that one might loll in a tablespoon ventured across a land bridge connecting Siberia to North America more than 55.8 million years ago, and colonized what was then largely a lush, steamy continent, according to research published yesterday.
Fossils uncovered in Mississippi reveal the deepest and earliest penetration of primates into the New World, according to the research by Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and might cause paleontologists to revise their views on how these ancient ancestors of modern-day lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, apes, and humans reached America and Europe.
The journey, which spanned millennia and countless generations of the sap-slurping, tree-dwelling creatures, occurred against the backdrop of dramatic climate change "comparable in terms of both rate and magnitude to the current phase of global warming," said K. Christopher Beard, paleontologist at the museum and author of the paper in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
I thought global warming, especially the scale of it in our own time, was man-made?
Primitive primates inhabited North America for millions of years before disappearing in the face of a global cool-down starting about 34 million years ago.
Oh, sort of like the numbers worldwide over the last couple winters?
Whose shitting who?
Today, the only living primates "native" to North America are homo sapiens. There are robust monkey populations in Latin America, but they originated in Africa, not Asia, and seem to have arrived on "floating islands" of jungle debris - not by land routes - long after northern primates had become extinct.
The rapid spread of Teilhardina was driven by the arrival of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, a dramatic global warming period caused by a rise in naturally-occurring greenhouse gases.Say again?
Pffffffffffffttttttt!!!!!!
The nearly-simultaneous appearance of Teilhardina species in Asia, Europe, and North America correlated with climate change, which allowed forests - serving as roads for tree dwellers - to flourish far north of their present boundaries.
Maybe if we quit cutting down trees, "global warming" could be good!!!!
Since there were no polar ice caps to melt at the time, the Paleocene-Eocene is associated with drops in ocean levels (not the rising seas forecast for the 21st century's climate shifts) caused by continental drift that altered the volume of ocean basins, according to scientists."
Excuse me?
Maybe the REAL PURPOSE is to TAX YOU SILLY and have ANOTHER REASON to label people "terrorists!"
And WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE WHO did this act of "terrorism."
''3 luxury homes burn near Seattle"
"by Elizabeth M. Gillespie, Associated Press | March 4, 2008
WOODINVILLE, Wash. - Fires gutted three multimillion-dollar model homes in a Seattle suburb yesterday, and authorities found a sign purportedly left by ecoterrorists that mocks claims that the homes were environmentally friendly.
"Built Green? Nope black!" said the spray-painted sign that bore the initials of the radical environmental group Earth Liberation Front.
Crews removed explosive devices found in the homes, said Fire Chief Rick Eastman of Snohomish County District 7. The FBI was investigating the fires as a potential domestic terrorism act, said FBI spokesman Rich Kolko in Washington, D.C.
No injuries were reported in the fires, which began before dawn. The sheriff's office estimated damage at $7 million. In addition to the three homes destroyed, two sustained smoke damage.
The houses burned as a federal jury in Tacoma was about to resume deliberations in the case of an alleged ELF activist, Briana Waters. Waters could face at least 35 years if convicted of helping to firebomb the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture in 2001.
Oooooooooh, and NO ONE WAS HURT and a big CUI-FUCKING-BONO, 'eh, readers?
Oh, this fire STINKS of a GOVERNMENT BLACK-OP!!!!!!
Smell the SMOKE of that SHIT?
The fires started at the "Street of Dreams," an annual real-estate promotion in the region. The cluster of unoccupied, furnished luxury model homes are a way for developers to show off the latest in high-end housing, interior design and landscaping. The homes are first opened for tours, and later sold.
The homes, none of which had been purchased, are in a development near the headwaters of Bear Creek, which is home to endangered chinook salmon. Opponents had questioned whether the luxury homes could pollute the creek and an aquifer that is a drinking water source, and whether enough was done to protect nearby wetlands.
The sign, a sheet with red scraggly letters, said, "McMansions in RCDs r not green," a reference to rural cluster developments.
I wonder which government puke wrote it.
One of the people involved in the project said the homes used "green" techniques such as water-pervious sidewalks, superinsulated walls and windows and products made with recycled materials.
"It's very disappointing to take a situation where we're tying to promote good building practices - Built Green practices - and that it's destroyed," said Doug Barnes, the Northwest division president of