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Scientists race to develop farm animals to survive climate change
Los Angeles Times ^ | May 3, 2014 | By Evan Halper

Posted on 05/04/2014 6:55:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

When a team of researchers from the University of Delaware traveled to Africa two years ago to search for exemplary chickens, they weren't looking for plump thighs or delicious eggs.

They were seeking out birds that could survive a hotter planet.

The researchers were in the vanguard of food scientists, backed by millions of dollars from the federal government, racing to develop new breeds of farm animals that can stand up to the hazards of global warming.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climategate; failure; globalwanking; hoax; manbearpig; socialism
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To: Proud2BeRight
The irony is if they believe in climate change and believe in evolution, the chickens should adapt by themselves.

And they raise chickens in Minnesota and Arkansas. Wide range of temps. the chickens seem to adapt nicely.

41 posted on 05/04/2014 7:26:44 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone sold the Feds a cartload of B.S. Here in Mississippi farmers deal with heat and extreme humidity which in combination is a death sentence to many animals. They are able to make a profit raising animals that are adapted to this heat and humidity. The genetics of the chicken are based in the jungles of Malaysia where they originated.


42 posted on 05/04/2014 7:29:46 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: MeshugeMikey
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43 posted on 05/04/2014 7:35:00 AM PDT by Zeneta (Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Given a choice between global warming and another Ice Age, I’ll take more heat every time.

Food grows a lot better in tropical conditions than it would under a sheet of mile-thick ice.

So crank up that global thermostat! You betcha!


44 posted on 05/04/2014 7:36:24 AM PDT by DNME (This is the government our Founders warned us about.)
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To: jetson
If they just change it to global cooling due to sun activity..I then believe.

"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow,and our planet began to heal.

Welcome King Barack "Canute" Obama the Great.....

...Obama issues an Executive Order to the Sun...

....to increase it's magnetic field....

and make a good crop of sunspots before elections in 2016....

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades.

The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age....and lasted 400 years.

Good luck surviving with less electricity and GE modified seeds.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news203746768.html#jCp

45 posted on 05/04/2014 7:37:08 AM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Boy, those chickens are gonna have a hard time in
the coming ICE age...


46 posted on 05/04/2014 7:51:31 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More B/S, Gag!


47 posted on 05/04/2014 7:58:17 AM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Problem solved. Eat more lizard. They taste like chicken, or so I’m told. Makes for some nice boots too.

Next problem...


48 posted on 05/04/2014 7:58:31 AM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: smokingfrog

You better put some heat in those chicken coops too.....

the idiots are having a hard time with their “settled science” as to what the weather will do...All they “know” is that man is causing it and it and something must be taxed!


49 posted on 05/04/2014 8:02:33 AM PDT by M-cubed
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We have money for this while other programs are going broke?


50 posted on 05/04/2014 8:04:47 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Add to list of great human endeavors and institutions that “progressives” have degraded into a macabre joke: science.


51 posted on 05/04/2014 8:12:50 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Have they lost faith in evolution?


52 posted on 05/04/2014 8:21:54 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AGW/Climate-change is not science. Science utilizes the Scientific Method. AGW/Climate-change utilized inductive/deductive reasoning. Inductive/deductive reasoning is not science.


53 posted on 05/04/2014 8:42:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: johniegrad

What a scam, some researcher has use the fake “climate change” to get funding [our tax dollars] to play with chickens & animals.

Chickens suffer when it’s hot? The domestic chicken originated in Southeast Asia where it’s darn hot. The jungle bird was tamed and proved so useful that farmers worldwide now raise it.


54 posted on 05/04/2014 8:46:42 AM PDT by RicocheT (Where neither their property nor their honor is touched, most men live content, Niccolo Machiavelli)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What we NEED are”Scientists”Not Equipped To Survive”Climate Change”!!Then they would Leave Us Alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


55 posted on 05/04/2014 8:52:18 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I understand the Schick Razor company is underwriting the project.

What chickenshicks.


56 posted on 05/04/2014 8:58:40 AM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good God...these animals routinely handle temperature swings of 100 degrees during the seasons, and they can’t handle a change in average temperature of 1 degree over 100 years? The stupidity is beyond belief.

Besides, with the coming ice age, they better prepare for a 1-2 degree DECREASE in temperatures. The idiots misread the plus and minus signs again.


57 posted on 05/04/2014 9:02:08 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Comment by "plainsarcher" on the LA Times site is a hoot!
The recently developed Gallus Liberalus Domesticus may hold the promise that scientists seek. Not only can it withstand hotter weather, but it comes complete with a tiny hemp bag tucked under its left wing and a pair of miniature Ugg boots. Most significantly, this chicken can reliably vote Democrat with its beak.

58 posted on 05/04/2014 9:07:19 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Egads!


59 posted on 05/04/2014 9:11:07 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Which came first, the chicken or the egghead ??”


60 posted on 05/04/2014 9:14:52 AM PDT by mikrofon (Or- "Are You Smarter Than A Barnyard Fowl?")
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