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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Global Warming is a silly notion...

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I don't understand scientists...how long have we been seriously studying global climate? half a century reliably by my best guess, how long do these scientists say the earth has been around...MANY MANY times longer...and they somehow think they can understand what's going on...pretty dumb notion if you ask me, they can't accurately tell me if it's gonna rain or be cloudy 5 minutes, hours, days, weeks from now...so I sure as hell don't take them seriously when they think they can model weather 5 decades from now...

Go back to your test tubes and cancer infected lab rats and find a cure for cancer, if it rains in zimbabwe 5 years from now who cares...