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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (94822)1/9/2007 8:33:11 AM
From: Rock_nj  Respond to of 361019
 
The big stink in New York City yesterday was likely the result of a natural methane release from a swamp in nearby New Jersey. Another sign of global warming?



To: T L Comiskey who wrote (94822)1/9/2007 12:12:37 PM
From: coug  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 361019
 
Another disconcerting thought.. :(

Of Microbes and Mock Attacks:
Years Ago, The Military Sprayed Germs on U.S. Cities
Jim Carlton / Wall Street Journal 22oct01

SAN FRANCISCO -- Fifty-one years ago, Edward J. Nevin checked into a San Francisco hospital, complaining of chills, fever and general malaise. Three weeks later, the 75-year-old retired pipe fitter was dead, the victim of what doctors said was an infection of the bacterium Serratia marcescens.

Decades later, Mr. Nevin's family learned what they believe was the cause of the infection, linked at the time to the hospitalizations of 10 other patients. In Senate subcommittee hearings in 1977, the U.S. Army revealed that weeks before Mr. Nevin sickened and died, the Army had staged a mock biological attack on San Francisco, secretly spraying the city with Serratia and other agents thought to be harmless....""

""..We learned a lot about how vulnerable we are to biological attack from those tests," says Leonard Cole, adjunct professor of political science at Rutgers University in New Jersey and author of several books on bioterrorism. "I'm sure that's one reason crop dusters were grounded after Sept. 11: The military knows how easy it is to disperse organisms that can affect people over huge areas."

In other tests in the 1950s, Army researchers dispersed Serratia on Panama City, Fla., and Key West, Fla., with no known illnesses resulting. They also released fluorescent compounds over Minnesota and other Midwestern states to see how far they would spread in the atmosphere. The particles of zinc-cadmium-sulfide -- now a known cancer-causing agent -- were detected more than 1,000 miles away in New York state, the Army told the Senate hearings, though no illnesses were ever attributed to them as a result...."""

More at...

mindfully.org



To: T L Comiskey who wrote (94822)1/9/2007 3:27:45 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 361019
 
Holy Shit. Game over. We're fucked.

Fuzzy



To: T L Comiskey who wrote (94822)1/9/2007 3:36:06 PM
From: Travis_Bickle  Respond to of 361019
 
Makes sense, warm gas expands and as the seabed is under uber multiples of surface pressure the gas would take the easiest route and head for the surface.

Could cause all kinds of havoc but most important of all, if you are in Tokyo haul ass right now cause Godzilla is coming and he's pissed.



To: T L Comiskey who wrote (94822)1/10/2007 10:44:12 PM
From: ThirdEye  Respond to of 361019
 
How ironic that you include links about Naked Shorting along with your article on global warming.

Naked Shorting describes the Bush administration's and all global warming skeptics' approach to global warming better than any other term I've encountered.

And I doubt that was intentional. But it couldn't have been more perfect!