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  I hate Global Warming skeptics . Ecotoxicity Excerpts: /PLANTS/ … It is not known how poison ivy might respond to increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO(2)), but previous work done in controlled growth chambers shows that other vines exhibit large growth enhancement from elevated CO(2). Rising CO(2) is potentially responsible for the increased vine abundance that is inhibiting forest regeneration and increasing tree mortality around the world. In this 6-year study at the Duke University Free-Air CO(2) Enrichment experiment, we show that elevated atmospheric CO(2) in an intact forest ecosystem increases photosynthesis, water use efficiency, growth, and population biomass of poison ivy. The CO(2) growth stimulation exceeds that of most other woody species. Furthermore, high-CO(2) plants produce a more allergenic form of urushiol. Our results indicate that Toxicodendron taxa will become more abundant and more “toxic” in the future, potentially ...

Conversation: K : It just ocurred to me. A major flaw in the premise of the movie “ Signs “. Why would anyone go to a planet that contained such vast quantities of a substance so extremely toxic to them? Me : USUALLY they don’t. In those cases the native species all die and there is no movie. Yeah, it’s not like they could use us as food. No idea. That, and the humidity in the air would burn whatever they use for lungs. Of course, running around naked didn’t help. Didn’t they have space suits? For that matter, why didn’t they have weapons? Never bring your own balls to a baseball bat fight. And DAMN, did they not have doors where they came from? Locked in the *pantry*? T : If today’s TV and movies were logical, most of them would last about 2 minutes. I tried watching “ Alias ” and the lead character is a CIA agent/grad student. She tells her fiance. He leaves a long phone message on her answering machine musing about this rev...

I upgraded to WordPress 3.5 and some plugins last night. The automatic install went smoothly as always, but dammit! something went wrong. Problems: “Add New Post” won’t switch from Text to Visual Quicktags toolbar was blank or missing “Add Media” popped up a red box alerting me that the WP 3.5 media uploader was New and Improved. meh. After I dismissed the popup Add New Post had the toolbar just one time. Missing toolbar in WordPress 3.5. When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap. It turned out that the tagaroo plugin wasn’t playing nice with WordPress. I suspect it’s due to the new WP code for Add Media. If you have this problem here’s what to do: Try the Twenty-Twelve theme. Deactivate all plugins. Activate plugins one at a time, checking “Add New Post” after each activation. If that plugin doesn’t break WordPress repeat with the next plugin. If that plugin breaks WordPress: Contact the plugin author. Be su...