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  'Resurrection plants' offer hope as climate turns hostile Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-22 20:28 -0600
    Re: 'Resurrection plants' offer hope as climate turns hostile jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-23 06:13 +0000
    Re: 'Resurrection plants' offer hope as climate turns hostile Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2015-11-23 08:28 -0500
      Re: 'Resurrection plants' offer hope as climate turns hostile Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 07:34 -0600
        Re: 'Resurrection plants' offer hope as climate turns hostile Wally W. <ww84wa@aim.com> - 2015-11-23 08:55 -0500
          Re: 'Resurrection plants' offer hope as climate turns hostile Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-11-23 06:30 -0800
        Re: 'Resurrection plants' offer hope as climate turns hostile jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-23 18:52 +0000

#534683 — 'Resurrection plants' offer hope as climate turns hostile

'Resurrection plants' offer hope as climate turns hostile
> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-resurrection-climate-hostile.html

> As the race to adapt to climate change quickens, a South African
> scientist is leading global research into developing crops that mimic
> the extraordinary survival skills of "resurrection plants".
>
> Jill Farrant, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the
> University of Cape Town, hopes that unlocking the genetic codes of
> drought-tolerant plants could help farmers toiling in increasingly
> hot and dry conditions.
>
> With more than 130 known varieties in the world, resurrection plants
> are a unique group of flora that can survive extreme water shortages
> for years.
>
> During a drought, the plant acts like a seed, becoming so dry it
> appears dead.
>
> But when the skies finally open and the rain pours down, the
> shrivelled plant bursts "back to life", turning green and robust in
> just a few hours.


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#534721

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> 'Resurrection plants' offer hope as climate turns hostile
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-11-resurrection-climate-hostile.html
> 
>> As the race to adapt to climate change quickens, a South African
>> scientist is leading global research into developing crops that mimic
>> the extraordinary survival skills of "resurrection plants".
>>
>> Jill Farrant, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the
>> University of Cape Town, hopes that unlocking the genetic codes of
>> drought-tolerant plants could help farmers toiling in increasingly
>> hot and dry conditions.
>>
>> With more than 130 known varieties in the world, resurrection plants
>> are a unique group of flora that can survive extreme water shortages
>> for years.
>>
>> During a drought, the plant acts like a seed, becoming so dry it
>> appears dead.
>>
>> But when the skies finally open and the rain pours down, the
>> shrivelled plant bursts "back to life", turning green and robust in
>> just a few hours.
 
Irrelevant, hysterical babble. 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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#534763

On Sun, 22 Nov 2015 20:28:36 -0600, Sam Wormley wrote:

>> As the race to adapt to climate change quickens, 

That's what I am seeing all around me: quickening of "the race to
adapt to climate change." /sarc

What does the quickening of that race look like in your neighborhood,
Sam?

What efforts have you seen to *adapt* to climate change?

Isn't your mission to *prevent* climate change?

Of course you realize that some portion of climate change is due to
natural cycles. How much of the natural climate change do you want to
prevent?

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#534765

On 11/23/15 7:28 AM, Wally W. wrote:
> Of course you realize that some portion of climate change is due to
> natural cycles. How much of the natural climate change do you want to
> prevent?



   What part of mass extinction would you like to prevent?



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#534774

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 07:34:30 -0600, Sam Wormley wrote:

>On 11/23/15 7:28 AM, Wally W. wrote:
>> Of course you realize that some portion of climate change is due to
>> natural cycles. How much of the natural climate change do you want to
>> prevent?
>
>
>
>   What part of mass extinction would you like to prevent?

How much genocide would you like to prevent?

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#534785

On Monday, November 23, 2015 at 8:55:37 AM UTC-5, Wally W. wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 07:34:30 -0600, Sam Wormley wrote:
> 
> >On 11/23/15 7:28 AM, Wally W. wrote:
> >> Of course you realize that some portion of climate change is due to
> >> natural cycles. How much of the natural climate change do you want to
> >> prevent?
> >
> >   What part of mass extinction would you like to prevent?
> 
> How much genocide would you like to prevent?

It's in his CC# Bflat tone... the PresiAlDente Tune Tone...

He he... fortunately for Sam Worm Lie, our resident Misanthrope
Extraordinaire, there are no new Usenet readers left to count.

Sam I see... Wringing his hands, talking to himself, saying, nay
singing: Everything is unfolding as I planned. Nobody left... behind.

-- Mahipal "IPMM... If you say something, see something?!"

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#534858

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/23/15 7:28 AM, Wally W. wrote:
>> Of course you realize that some portion of climate change is due to
>> natural cycles. How much of the natural climate change do you want to
>> prevent?
> 
> 
> 
>   What part of mass extinction would you like to prevent?
 
Hysterical nonsense. 
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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