Global warming terrorism will see more exploding treesming


	Global warming terrorism will see more exploding treesming

Wadard

5-31-2007 6:53 AM

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global warming, climate change

Wadard says:

What's summer without a bushfire or two? Indeed, some of our plant life has evolved to germinate as a result of bushfire, But bushfires all year round would be an entirely different thing.

Overseas readers may not know this, but the eucalyptus tree has a such a high oil content that they virtually explode in the path of an approaching bushfire.

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