The Secrets of Hissing Trees(Methane,Hissing Seem Inextricably Intertwined Perhaps Cosmic By Design)

New York Times ^ | August 10, 2012 | Joanne Foster

[lbryce]

Methane and hissing. Nature seems to have a sense of humor chemically inextricably connecting methane and hissing, guttural sounds whimsically cosmic by design. It would not surprise me to would find similar terrestrial phenomena across the most far away parts of the universe due to the oneness of chemicals, elements in universal abundance juxtaposed in a way to make the chemical connection between gas and sound.

[moovova]

Oh the horror. And, I thought trees were our friends.

Now, I guess, they’re on the EPA’s Death List.

[brivette]

your not suggesting that a tree fart is a tree fart, are you?

[brivette]

you’re not your...jeesh.

[Wurlitzer]

Hmm, envision hundreds no thousands of hoses connected to the trees similar to tapping Maple trees for syrup and all those hoses connected to a burner for a boiler and the steam used to make electricity.

Tree far#$ for energy! Nature’s, natural gas.

Watch out if you hug a tree, it might break wind in your general direction.

[ClearCase_guy]

"Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do"
-- Ronald Reagan

And the media laughed.

[UCANSEE2]

No one can hear you fart, in space.

[Past Your Eyes]

Ronald Reagan was right. Between CO2, CH4 and oxides of nitrogen, the damn trees are soon going to have the temperature on earth roughly equal to that of a pizza oven. We need to cut every single on of them down immediately.

[PeterPrinciple]

Kristofer Covey, a doctoral candidate at Yale and the lead author on the paper, emphasized that the research does not suggest in any way that such forests are an environmental negative.

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And once again the headline does not match the article

[Past Your Eyes]

Ronald Reagan was right. Between CO2, CH4 and oxides of nitrogen, the damn trees are soon going to have the temperature on earth roughly equal to that of a pizza oven. We need to cut every single one of them down immediately.

[UCANSEE2]

It would not surprise me to would find similar terrestrial phenomena across the most far away parts of the universe...

[bigbob]

Damn, now we’ve gotta cut down all the trees....then what will the libs hug?

[UCANSEE2]

"Here, pull my finger."

[bgill]

Tree farts cause global warming!!!

[Charles Martel]

"The Flatulent Elm of West Ruislip!"

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

PULL MY FINGER

[KGeorge]

(sure glad I was between the soda & the cigarette!) This is sooo priceless!
Thank you for making my day!

[Tucker39]

Does anyone remember when Ronaldus Magnus made the statement that some trees are themselves polluters, and the catcalls and razzberries he received from the geen nut nature worshippers and the dim bulbs in the media? And now comes this report. Whattayaknow?!

[lbryce]

The great new philosophical conundrum of our day is;
if a tree farts in the forest and no one hears it fart, can you still actually smell it?

[lbryce]

The great new philosophical conundrum of our day is;
if a tree farts in the forest and no one hears it fart, can you still actually smell it?