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Dems Will Win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 07:59 PM Original message |
AMAZON RAINFOREST CATCHES FIRE, 2 MIL SQ KM THREATENED! "SUICIDE NOTE OF MANKIND" - PREZ CANDIDATES? |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. In the entire history of earth, when have rainforests every caught fire? |
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Dems Will Win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. There has been a three year drought now |
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Dems Will Win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. The Amazon on fire means all that carbon released into the atmosphere!! |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Like THIS? |
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Dems Will Win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:13 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. We need to send fire-fighting help down there and stop funding the cattle ranches |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:44 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Pssst... |
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dickbearton (577 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 06:48 PM Response to Reply #12 |
76. Exactly, the Criminal Bush will do something alright, he will set more fires. |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 11:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. Realistically, that's an impossible question to answer, don't you think? |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:14 AM Response to Reply #20 |
28. How about, has the Amazon ever burned on a large scale like this in the recorded history of |
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pokercat999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 03:17 PM Response to Reply #20 |
59. No problem, just keep sucking down those |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:25 PM Response to Reply #59 |
86. I don't eat at Mickey D's. If I want a burger, I cook one at home. n/t |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 02:23 PM Response to Reply #1 |
57. between this and the mountain gorillas, I may shoot myself. it is said |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 04:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
65. they also had some major fires in the amazon basin in the 1980s EOM |
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SlowDownFast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:01 PM Response to Reply #1 |
85. Article on ancient Amazon Rainforest Fires |
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Dems Will Win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-09-07 12:55 PM Response to Reply #85 |
98. The difference now is most of the Amazon basin is being hit with drought |
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populistdriven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
5. STOP EATING BEEF!!! |
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Dems Will Win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:16 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I stopped 30 years ago! |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 06:26 AM Response to Reply #5 |
26. Too few give a shit -- it's too inconvenient |
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Beaverhausen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 12:22 PM Response to Reply #5 |
50. The main reason I quit eating beef over 20 years ago |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 06:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
70. Or at least meet the cow in person before you eat it. n/t |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 06:30 PM Response to Reply #5 |
72. I did a year and ahalf ago and have not looked back... |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
8. Humans should quit using fires for agriculture world-wide. |
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Dems Will Win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:29 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. I agree |
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Dems Will Win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
10. This is the start of the mega-fires |
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libertypirate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:43 PM Response to Original message |
11. Some times its the perspective, |
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Dems Will Win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Thanks -- Amazing - I mentioned this satellite image in the OP Update! |
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FREEWILL56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 12:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
51. Could this prove evolution to be false |
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dickbearton (577 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 06:56 PM Response to Reply #51 |
77. No, the Principle of Evolution does not require people to get smarter. |
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FREEWILL56 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 07:58 PM Response to Reply #77 |
83. Sad, but true as we could evolve backwards. |
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Maestro (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 02:35 PM Response to Reply #11 |
58. That is horrible! |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
14. Slash and burn added to drought equals fire |
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Duppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 02:45 AM Response to Reply #14 |
23. and who, as President, would then have the power to stop this? |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 05:54 AM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Well I don't appreciate the tweaking |
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Duppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 10:44 PM Response to Reply #25 |
89. pt. taken |
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Harper_is_Bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
15. International help is required. Too bad all eyes are focussed on Al Quaeda in Iraq n/t |
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UTUSN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 09:14 PM Response to Original message |
16. Well, closer to home, anybody bothered that Shrub's Mexican wall will blot out |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:51 AM Response to Reply #16 |
34. A vote for Kucinich is a vote for "kittys and stuff like that" !!1! |
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Swamp Rat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
17. Nossa!!! |
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leftist_not_liberal (408 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
18. 10,000 points of light! n/t |
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Trillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-07-07 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
19. Time to make a new forest. |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 11:06 AM Response to Reply #19 |
46. That would be beautiful.. |
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tex-wyo-dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 12:11 AM Response to Original message |
21. Isn't this just what the bushbot end-timers wanted? |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 12:56 AM Response to Original message |
22. K&R Man this is scary. |
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Duppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 02:47 AM Response to Original message |
24. If I had 100 K & R's |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:07 AM Response to Original message |
27. 2 M sq. kilometers is unprecedented. When we talk about forest fires we talk about acres |
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Dems Will Win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:42 AM Response to Reply #27 |
32. A researcher covered a couple acres of the Amazon in plastic |
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happygoluckytoyou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:31 AM Response to Original message |
29. awww geee....another inconvenient truth |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 09:51 AM Response to Reply #29 |
40. Even the rich can't outrun this. |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:35 AM Response to Original message |
30. They were coming down anyway |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
31. No! First we MUST get to the bottom of the vital American flag pin issue! |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
33. WTF? |
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bluesmail (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 09:06 AM Response to Reply #33 |
36. IIRC Oregon decades ago stopped field burning |
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Dems Will Win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 09:36 AM Response to Reply #36 |
38. We should organize a DU group to save the Amazon |
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flvegan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:57 AM Response to Original message |
35. CNN is telling me that Brad Pitt is more important. |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
37. K&R |
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Dems Will Win (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 09:56 AM Response to Reply #37 |
41. We need to get the Prez candidates to talk about this -- it is more important than Iraq!! |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-09-07 09:48 AM Response to Reply #41 |
97. I remember the '04 Election |
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Andy Canuck (234 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 09:44 AM Response to Original message |
39. The Sahara used |
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Lilith Velkor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 01:39 PM Response to Reply #39 |
53. That's not true |
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populistdriven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 03:20 PM Response to Reply #53 |
60. Pleistocene Lakes in the Sahara |
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Lilith Velkor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 05:37 PM Response to Reply #60 |
67. Yes, there were lakes, but it was grassland, not forest |
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populistdriven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:47 PM Response to Reply #67 |
87. Ah, Sorry, I missed that - the dangers of posting at work!! |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
42. If we don't get a dem majority in '08, including the presidency, kiss it goodbye. |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
43. K&R |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
44. We're screwed |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
45. k&r. |
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loudsue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
47. We need Al Gore more than ever. |
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ramapo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 12:59 PM Response to Reply #47 |
52. No, we need people to wake up |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
48. Hey! Let's go to Mars! |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:01 PM Response to Reply #48 |
84. I was just getting the feeling that maybe we don't belong here. nt |
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Dukkha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
49. what we need is a lot less humans on Earth |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
54. There is just ONE Dem leader addressing this issue. |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 02:06 PM Response to Reply #54 |
56. OH??? And just WHOM might that be??? |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-09-07 02:43 AM Response to Reply #56 |
93. Hint...he's pictured below...somewhere in the box...you'll know him by the raise hand! |
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nam78_two (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 02:06 PM Response to Original message |
55. K&R.nt |
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Divine Discontent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
61. AMAZ-ING! |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 03:28 PM Response to Original message |
62. Sugar cane, and coffee cup, copper, steel and cattle.. An annotated history, the forest for the fire |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
63. We need Gore as president now more than ever! nt |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
64. the amazon basin is not under control of the united states |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 06:23 PM Response to Reply #64 |
69. don't forget international paper. |
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dickbearton (577 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 07:27 PM Response to Reply #64 |
79. Pitohui, you are confused... |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 11:07 PM Response to Reply #79 |
90. for some reason i don't think i'm the one who is confused |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-09-07 05:07 AM Response to Reply #64 |
94. That's all fine and good, but what about the world impact? |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-09-07 01:15 PM Response to Reply #94 |
100. well, what about the world impact? |
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Solon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-09-07 01:26 PM Response to Reply #100 |
101. We wouldn't be as "dependent" on South America? |
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bloom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
66. Vegetarianism is the way to go - "expansion of the cattle industry" - nt |
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Mike03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
68. "Only creatures who are on their way... |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 06:27 PM Response to Original message |
71. ok you guys, just for some perspective. I'm from Brazil, and I talk to people there regularly. |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 06:36 PM Response to Reply #71 |
73. I just checked 3 major brazilian papers. The articles about fires are about the |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 07:01 PM Response to Reply #73 |
78. thanks robin EOM |
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dickbearton (577 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 07:45 PM Response to Reply #78 |
80. Pitohui, you and Robin are like the fools who deny global warming... |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 07:51 PM Response to Reply #80 |
82. I don't deny global warming, not for a second. As a matter of fact bbc jsut reproted that for the |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 08:49 PM Response to Reply #80 |
88. i live in new orleans, i am very aware of global warming, don't yell at me when you don't know me |
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MsKandice01 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 06:39 PM Response to Reply #71 |
74. Thank you... |
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Contrary1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
75. A Related Article From Last Year: |
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burrowowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-08-07 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
81. DK has the highest rating on the environment |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-09-07 12:42 AM Response to Original message |
91. Kicking for late night. |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-09-07 02:38 AM Response to Original message |
92. There really is no them or us anymore. |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-09-07 01:05 PM Response to Reply #92 |
99. "if" we set an example |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-09-07 05:24 AM Response to Original message |
95. Oh no! We are so fucked. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-09-07 05:25 AM Response to Original message |
96. Shit too late to recommend. |
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