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2010-03-23 Science

Flowers losing scent due to climate change

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Posted by gorb 2010-03-23 00:48|| || Front Page|| [24 views ] Top

#1 A rose may stop smelling like a rose

Specially when you had beans for lunch.

Posted by JFM 2010-03-23 05:26|| 2010-03-23 05:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Manbearpig

Posted by DMFD 2010-03-23 07:10|| 2010-03-23 07:10|| Front Page Top

#3 In actuality, the problem was due to local pollution. This gets changed in the article to "pollution and climate change" and then in the headline it's just Climate Change.

I've noticed the same thing regarding coral reefs in Indonesia and Malaysia dying of pollution. It's described as "pollution and climate change" and then reported as Climate Change without the pollution, when it turns out that the area is suffering from fish kills from chemicals dumped in the water....

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-03-23 09:59|| 2010-03-23 09:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Scientists' ability to do science diminished by gerbil worming...

Posted by M. Murcek 2010-03-23 12:34|| 2010-03-23 12:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Riiiiight. Heat is so bad for roses that most of the ones you buy in the florist shops are from places like Colombia. Rose attar is harvested from places like Iran, India, and Pakistan...and many of the rosebushes for sale here started out in Arizona. (The largest rose bush in the world is in Tombstone, Arizona, BTW.)

I know it is politically incorrect, but maybe they are just crappy gardeners???

Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2010-03-23 13:31|| 2010-03-23 13:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Breeding for beautiful blooms rather than scent. This has been going on for decades. It's amazing how manmade selection works as effectively as the natural kind.

Posted by trailing wife on the other computer 2010-03-23 14:52|| 2010-03-23 14:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Have they blamed the Toyota acceleration problems on gerbil worming yet? You know it's coming.

Posted by Gomez Threter7450 2010-03-23 19:28|| 2010-03-23 19:28|| Front Page Top

#8 I saw something recently that suggested cosmic rays might be causing the Toyota problem, Gomez Threter7450. I've no idea how valid that is.

Posted by trailing wife on the other computer 2010-03-23 22:57|| 2010-03-23 22:57|| Front Page Top

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