Shake, shake, shake that money tree…
Woolly mammoths have been extinct for more than 4,000 years, but with new gene-editing techniques, they could help mitigate the effects of a modern problem: climate change. […]
When mammoths roamed in a northern area known as the “mammoth steppe,” that ecosystem was rich in grasses. But after the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) went extinct and other grazers left the area, grasses gave way to shrubs and a tundra ecosystem, an environment that the Harvard Woolly Mammoth Revival team says is “contributing to human-driven climate change.” […]
The elephants on our planet right now can’t tolerate the cold climate of the steppe. So the idea is to use gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR to insert the ancient robust genes from mammoths into Asian elephant cells and create embryos that may grow up to be elephant-mammoth hybrids that can.
Just what I need coming through the windshield of my truck.
Once again, Canada is slightly ahead of its time….
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2015/07/y2kyoto-how-to-2.html
Paleo-climate cycles. Says it all. Only the terminally stupid could possibly fail to understand.
I know it’s selfish of me to inquire,but if they DO place massive herds of mammoths in Canader, will we hunters be allowed to take a few, I mean per season, not each,via LEH’s ? “Region 7-5: 11 Wooly mammoth draws available, bulls only, price$150.”
We lost the grizzly bear hunt,so why not a few mammoths? One would feed a family of ten for about two years, with delicious steaks, roasts and stews keeping us warm in the about-to -be dreadful new Winters, and as they’re “wooly” could the wool not be knitted by our wives into nice sweaters? A bonus is that we could burn the mammoth dung in our pot bellied stoves to cook and keep warm, thus saving us from the climate ravages of coal and natural gas.
One last question: what caliber of hunting rifle should one use on mammoths? I don’t think my 30-06 would do the job, and I’m too damned old to attack the creatures with a spear.
Thank Allah for scientists, whatever the problem, they have a solution. I am humbled by their presence in the world.
AL Gore is a Man-Pig ..Must be true.. Nobody in Tennessee remembers where he can from
Let me see, GMO food, evil, GMO species good. We need to open an elephant burger stand.
“Let me see, GMO food, evil, GMO species good.”
Exactly what I was thinking. One moment fiddling with genes is bad, next moment it’s good.
The inherent contradictions of what passes for “progressive” thinking these days are mind-boggling.
there/are a lot of right dingers who honk off about GMO crops! Most are also bible thumpers!!!
Are you sure about that? Rather think the anti-GMO crowd are the back-to-nature types and greenies.
What could possibly go wrong? Where are the elephant preservationists? Why wasn’t this idea SHOUTED DOWN … before it ever made the news?
Let me get this straight: an event that happened at least 4,000 years ago is contributing to “HUMAN-driven climate change”?
4000 ? I thought these jokers did not believe in the Bible.
If elephants can’t tolerate the cold, maybe Justin can send them some parkas for the winter.
Since apparently we’re heating the planet until we all die sizzling on the sidewalk like sausages in a frying pan, why not just wait until the steppe gets warm enough for the existing elephant species and then introduce them onto the steppe to do whatever it is they do to solve climate change? Or is that too low-yield a government grant?
You are all missing the potential here. If properly trained, a mammoth with a howda on the back would be a really cool recreational vehicle. Currently it would be perfectly legal to ride one out into the bush to hunt deer or moose. Maybe they could be trained for logging or other industries like they have done in India.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaYc5UP8PsI
Let me get this straight – the mammoths that ate the grass disappeared, so the grass disappeared.
Therefore we bring back the mammoths and the grass will come back.
I’m beginning to understand why these people believe in global warming…
Plenty of grass for these grazers.
Yaks grazing near Dry Island
Our nearby national parks are re-introducing bison too.
The insanity never ends with these morons. Back when these idiots were screaming man made global cooling they wanted to dump coal dust all over the arctic and antarctic.
There is no man made global warming or cooling. Just the natural ebb and flow of out everyday climate.
CO2 is not a poison. In fact life on Earth could not exist without it.
400 ppm give or take does practically nothing to effect the temperatures on Earth. In fact if anything we have a carbon deficit.
Now they’re saying the supposed increase in cloud cover as helped to stop global warming over the past few years. Whereas I recall that they once said increased cloud cover would increase global warming. Which is it?
Now they want to bring back an extinct animal to help fight something that doesn’t exist?
The insanity never ends with these morons.
“Now they want to bring back an extinct animal to help fight something that doesn’t exist?
The insanity never ends with these morons.”
Bingo!
And, as a bonus joke, the vast majority of these morons do not want GMO foods. How to explain stupid.
I won’t be happy until we get CO2 levels down under 150ppm. We can do it for the good of the planet!!! (protip: smart people stock up on beans and rice. AGW cult members…carry on)
Some plants start to die at around 150 ppm.
We all die around that level.
I’m sure that someone out there is already figuring out a way to make money out of this. It’ll be called Neolithic Park, with the inevitable movie deals to follow.
Close. It’s called Pleistocene Park.
http://www.pleistocenepark.ru/en/
Cool idea actually.
They don’t have any live mammoths, though. I guess they didn’t find any amber-encased mosquitoes yet.
I’ll bet the natives are excited about this.
It’s been quite awhile since they’ve had herds of anything to stampede over cliffs. That scene would just drive these deranged EJW’s(Eco Justice Warriors) the rest of the way to insanity, wouldn’t it?
So . . . what they are recommending is to have these mammoth hybrids get rid of all the trees? Isn’t that what environmentalists were fighting to SAVE?
Just when I thought things couldn’t get more bizarre … Oh well , go with flow – there is no place to hide – will these be gender neutral or hybrids ? I will laugh if I can stop shaking my head .
“Just what I need coming through the windshield of my truck.”
Imagine the potential for disaster that a mammoth flop on the road would represent. Like a cow flop, but so much bigger…
We could Engineer giant Dung Beetles to take care of that.
For a comparable experience, try driving the road from Hay River to Fort Smith through Wood Buffalo National Park.
The formula for funding of otherwise useless research is to insert any kind of “climate change” angle. This is another reason why all non-defense research should be privately funded.
I’m personally in favour of this. Imagine the headlines. ‘Mammoth goes on Rampage in Alberta Trailer Park.’ and, ‘ Saber Tooth Pride kills off the last of the Buffalo, now hunt people.’
now if Noah had only loaded a couple of those suckers on his bassbo…..erm, ark!!!
I think cloning mammoths would be neat from a research viewpoint. If you want to convert forests back to grassland a million buffalo would do the trick.
This story is a bobe mayse!
Can’t wait for the first draw season…. Wooly Mammoth draw, males only.
“Just what I need coming through the windshield of my truck.”
You are one funny lady.
What about the musk ox? Can’t they do the job?