Craig Venter Tackles Global Warming

Venture$cience writes: "Fresh from his arguably successful sequencing of the human genome with his company Celera Genomics, Craig Venter is now entering the field of global warming. Specifically, he is readying an ocean wide expedition to harvest novel forms of bacteria from the ocean's deep. From these collections he hopes to find bacteria that excel at converting CO2 into proteins, sugars, and methane. The current candidate for an atmospheric "scrubber" is the ancient Archae family of bacteria that is believed to have helped modify the early Earth's original atmosphere. This all brings up another question concerning what cross-contamination protocols should they use? What if they find something down there that should not be brought back up?"

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Re: Global Warming is a silly notion...

[Black Parrot]

> Historical science? You weren't there...the scientific method can not be applied, you can not prove something you didn't yourself see

How come I'm not surprised to see effect-of-pollution deniers invoking the same lame arguments that evolution deniers invoke?

There are lots of ways of knowing what the earth was like in both the recent and distant past. The "Were you there?" argument is simply a desperate strategem for people who want to assert their beliefs in the face of the evidence.