Funky Solutions

I was procrastinating and reading the September issue of Backpacker magazine (which is their "global warming" issue) when I stumbled across a part on poison ivy. Apparently, Ecologist Jacqueline Mohan "used a pipe system to boost CO2 levels in a North Carolina forest to the exact concentration expected by the year 2050" she then concludes that "the vines grew three times larger and produced a more potent form of [the stuff that makes you itchy]".

This report is terrifying. I'm mostly terrified to hike in North Carolina now. We've spawned a poison ivy MONSTER down there in the name of science. I bet it's breeding it's way north now to destroy us all.

An advertisement later in the magazine is for a gold pendant filled with snow from the summit of Kilimanjaro. The tag is "act now before the snows of Kilimanjaro are gone forever (Proceeds will help fight global warming)"

So, by melting the snow... from the summit... and sending it to people in little key chains... we'll help put more snow up there? That we already melted? Come again?