Make it a criminal offense to eat them. They will be "poached" out of existence.

Nice. I agree.

WOW! Apparently I struck a nerve. Sorry. The Earth has had cooling trends, wam periods, ice ages, etc. I am just saying that I have not seen compelling, non-biased evidence that man-induced, or anthropogenic if you like big words, causes are the reason for this current warming trend. I am not denying that we are having more severe weather, higher watermarks on the coast, etc. I am just saying that the evidence I've seen has not really shown to me that it is only man's fault. Are you saying left wing media controls the polls or are you saying that is what Republicans think? Because if the former, I see a conspiracy theorist, if the latter, why would the Republicans think they'd win with that belief? No, I did not think that Romney was going to win. I sort of hoped he might because I don't like having a president that doesn't know how many states we have in the union or that doesn't salute the flag. But that is neither here nor there. The issue under discussion was the religion of science that seems to pervade the thoughts of so many. "If a scientist, or a vast majority of scientists, say something is true, it is considered heresy to even dare to question it." Again, just my $0.2.

Just because a vast majority believe a certain thing to be true does not make it so. Things all fall at the same rate, the Earth revolves around the Sun, the Earth is a spheroid, etc. None of these beliefs was held by the vast majority at some time in the past. I don't know if there is global warming or not. Some of the data show a rise in sea level and a loss of polar ice. Is this man-made, man-enhanced, or just a natural cycle that the Earth is going through? How much carbon is put into the air from forest fires, volcanoes, etc.? How does that compare to what the cars and other man-made carbon spewers put into the air? Some unbiased data would be good. It is unfortunate that big business (and government, which really is just another big business) pays for most research. It makes it very hard to publish a study with a conclusion different from what the sponsor would like. Just my $0.02.

This subject brought a laugh. Back in the early'80s our new CS department had just gotten a color graphics printer. A number of us were taking a class on algorithms and the current subject was fractals and the Mandelbrot set. Our instructor took the best of our "creations" and posted them in the hallway near the CS/Math department office. We came back from dinner one evening and found all the "artwork" had been removed. It seemed some well-meaning lady was offended by our "satanic" pictures so she tore them off the walls and ripped them to shreds. She left a letter with the department secretary that said if such things were displayed again, she'd have no choice but to report the department chairman and the instructor to the regents!