[sanjuro]

It Eats CO2 for Breakfast
By ANNE RAVER

PHILADELPHIA

POISON IVY is one of those weeds proliferating like mad as rising levels of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide heat up the atmosphere. Researchers at Duke University who studied the weed between 1999 and 2004 in a controlled forest area near Chapel Hill, N.C., where high levels of CO2 are pumped into test plots, found that poison ivy not only grew more vigorously, but also produced a more toxic form of urushiol, the resin that causes its rash.

 

[splat]

that doesn't say anything about helping absorb more CO2 , just about its ability to mke me itch more!

 

[SkaredShtles]

That and kudzu...

Oh - and the frikkin' bindweed growing in my back yard.

 

[skinny mike]

sanjuro = science fail

 

[Spero]

All the more reason to carry a bottle of whiskey around with you.

 

[narlus]

the proliferation of poison ivy in the last ten years, around my locale, is pretty amazing.

 

[SkaredShtles]

Humans will kill themselves off and the weeds shall inherit the earth.

 

[MMike]

Humans will kill themselves off and the weeds shall inherit the earth.

 

[stosh]

I think Poison Ivy is one of God's new plagues. I'm dumbfounded by the sheer volume of it on my property.

 

[X3pilot]

 

[Potroast88]

 

[stosh]

Why does she have Maple leaves on her belt?

 

[Arkayne]

Why does she have Maple leaves on her belt?

lol, well lets compare

poison ivy

maple leaf

 

[X3pilot]

Why does she have Maple leaves on her belt?

Canada=bad poison??????

 

[OGRipper]

You would definitely get a rash from her...and it might be worth it.

Out here it's poison oak. It might just be my fear/hatred of the stuff but it seems to be covering more and more ground every year. Damn evil weed.

 

[f0ggy]

poison oak too, that stuff has been going nutz around me. I see new shoots every time im up there