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bandycoot
May 20, 2004, 11:27 PM
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There was a text blurb on CNN yesterday and it went something like this:
"Heavy Rains Blamed: 30% of the underwater grass in Chesapeake Bay is dead after pollution was washed into the bay in 2003."
What kind of F***ED up logic do you need to blame rain? Rain is NATURAL. The bay is full of WATER. Could it possibly be **gasp** the pollution? If the media is going to play the blame game with every damn stupid little thing, why don't they try to at least use a logical course of thought when placing it? How pathetic!
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brianthew
May 20, 2004, 11:35 PM
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The pollution was a pre-existing condition to the grass killing, the rain was a catalyst to the grass killing. Hence, you can blame the catalyst - the rain.
But of course, the real problem isn't that it's raining, it's that the water is polluted.
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philbox
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May 21, 2004, 12:10 AM
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Hah, ya wanna talk about heavy rain. a bloke told me yesterday that when he was a surveyor in Papua New Guinea back in the late seventies he had to walk outside in anunusually heavy rainstorm. It was so heavy that he had to hold his hand over his nose so he could breath. It only lasted for ten minutes but in that time it filled a two gallon bucket from completely empty. Now that is heavy rain. We`re talking about measuring that in metres per hour not inches per hour. I`ve seen it rain 4 inches in twenty minutes but 18 inches in ten minutes, that would be cool to see.
He told me that the mountain side that he had pegged out for the survey had to be repegged because it was no longer there.
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arrettinator
May 20, 2005, 1:17 PM
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One year ago today:
Rain Rain Go Away.
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madriver
May 20, 2005, 1:25 PM
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Whats interesting about the decline of the bay grasses is that in the Cheasepeake Bay tributary creeks, the grasses are making a strong comeback. The enviroment in St. Leonards Creek is much healthier today than ten years ago.
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wjca
May 20, 2005, 3:23 PM
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Its all the Pennsylvania farmers that are the source of the runoff into the Bay.
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cthulu
May 21, 2005, 12:14 AM
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I agree that is fairly ridiculous.
CNN is just not as professional as most people regard it. In fact its just as much a tabloid as anything out there. You get just as many "Dog Answers Telephone" stories at CNN as in USA today.
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bandycoot
May 21, 2005, 10:01 PM
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I remember a few months ago the television in the break room at work was on CNN and every time I went in there all night all they talked about was Paris Hilton's missing dog. Who give a flying F--- :?:
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republiclimber
May 21, 2005, 10:50 PM
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In reply to: There was a text blurb on CNN yesterday and it went something like this: " Heavy Rains Blamed: 30% of the underwater grass in Chesapeake Bay is dead after pollution was washed into the bay in 2003." What kind of F***ED up logic do you need to blame rain? Rain is NATURAL. The bay is full of WATER. Could it possibly be **gasp** the pollution? If the media is going to play the blame game with every damn stupid little thing, why don't they try to at least use a logical course of thought when placing it? How pathetic! |
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