# Environmental Bad News of the Day: **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 11, 2015, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258 "2015-11-11T04:22:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258/21 "2016-01-30T23:01:21Z")
Foul tasting flesh? :dubious: The cases of serial Man eating tigers point to that not being quite the whole story. > **[Hungry for Humans: What's Behind Deadly Animal Attacks?](https://www.livescience.com/43339-tigers-animals-attack-eat-kill-human-prey.html)** > > Wildlife attacks like these have been increasing in a few parts of the world, and some experts believe, for a number of reasons, that humans — unaccustomed to being prey — might start appearing on more predators' dinner menus in the future. > [@](#): > > There are some people who claim that predators can develop a taste for human flesh after trying it once, which may explain why one individual animal is sometimes responsible for several human attacks. > > “Since human blood has more salt than animal blood, once wild animals get the taste of salty blood, they do not like other animals like deer,” Maheshwor Dhakal, an ecologist at the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation in Nepal, told CNN. Kinda reminds me of the Far Side: [“No fur, claws, horns, antlers, or nothin’…just soft and pink.”](https://omegaforums.net/attachments/farside-jpg.98191/) ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258/22 "2016-01-31T02:09:20Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > . . . Humans are total hypocrites saying skunks stink … I’ve smelled guys on the bus that make a skunk smell nice in comparison. When we let ourselves go, we rival pigs in shit for pong. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258/23 "2016-01-31T06:46:09Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Foul tasting flesh? :dubious: > > The cases of serial Man eating tigers point to that not being quite the whole story. > > [Hungry for Humans: What's Behind Deadly Animal Attacks? | Live Science](http://www.livescience.com/43339-tigers-animals-attack-eat-kill-human-prey.html) > Kinda reminds me of the Far Side: [“No fur, claws, horns, antlers, or nothin’…just soft and pink.”](https://omegaforums.net/attachments/farside-jpg.98191/) In this case, having the caption before the illustration is kind of a disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258/24 "2016-01-31T13:36:13Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > What it says on the tin. > > [Mountain Lion Killed By Rodent Poison Near Los Angeles](http://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonwells/mountain-lion-killed-by-rodent-poison#.wkRB8lb9er) > > Bio-accumulation of anti-coagulants, of all things. Man…remember the good old days when the great cats named their cubs things like Simba and Nala? Now, we’ve moved on to P34, and the like. Truly a tragedy for cub-naming conventions. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2016, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258/25 "2016-01-31T22:15:05Z")
[Earth Farts.](http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/methane-cow.htm) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258/26 "2016-03-30T05:33:22Z")
This is bad news in the sense of being news that is just bad. Once believed extinct, the [coelacanth will now be listed as “Threatened” per the ESA](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/coelacanth-living-fossil-endangered/) (although it is an Indian Ocean native that does not venture near US waters). Prepare for coelacanth sashimi to become a much sought after delicacy in Japan. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258/27 "2016-03-30T06:23:41Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Humans used to be tree-dwellers? That is just moronic. Anyone who thinks that should just go back to swinging in trees. \*Man came from monkey, Some folks say. But the Good Book, Brother Don’t tell it that way. If you believe that monkey tale, Like some folks do, I’d rather be That monkey than you!\* [indent]-- Tennessee Ernie Ford[/indent] ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258/28 "2016-03-30T12:48:11Z")
God made man, but he used a monkey to do it Apes in the plan, we’re all here to prove it. I can walk like an ape Talk like an ape Do what monkeys do God made man, but a monkey supplied the glue -Devo ---
**Author:** ![HookerChemical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/278dde/32.png) [@HookerChemical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HookerChemical)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258/29 "2016-03-30T16:51:10Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > This is bad news in the sense of being news that is just bad. Once believed extinct, the [coelacanth will now be listed as “Threatened” per the ESA](http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/coelacanth-living-fossil-endangered/) (although it is an Indian Ocean native that does not venture near US waters). Prepare for coelacanth sashimi to become a much sought after delicacy in Japan. As I understand it, one of the reasons the paleontology world thought that the fish was extinct despite existing off the coast of Tanzania is that the locals thought it was a bad fish to eat (foul meat or too oily or somesuch). They’d been hauling them up occasionally for decades, but since it wasn’t eaten, they were simply tossed out and no paleontologists noticed that the fish they thought extinct was this uncommon but recurring bycatch. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258/30 "2016-03-30T17:24:11Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > No, seriously, I had no idea that Warfarin did that. I guess I thought it more like cyanide, killing with acute exposure but otherwise digested. I don’t know why I thought that. This is what makes it effective. IIRC, rodents have evolved the habit of ingesting small amounts of any new food, and if it makes them sick they never go back to it. Warfarin doesn’t sicken, it just builds up increasing amounts of anti-coagulant until it’s fatal. > [@slumtrimpet](#): > > Here’s one that hits close to home (my home) > > [The EnergyEast Pipeline](http://canadians.org/energyeast), brought to you by TransCanada - the folks who finally got shut down on the Keystone XL. Those scumbags should be prohibited from having the word “Canada” in their name. Maybe with the demise of KXL and if Energy East gets shitcanned, these fuckers might have to find a less destructive line of business. Maybe they can go into loan sharking or something. Those other scumbuckets, Enbridge, were trying build the so-called Northern Gateway pipeline going the other way, to the west coast, and I think that one is now dead thanks to the new federal government. > [@eschereal](#): > > [More lovely news from Southern California](http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/12/infrared-video-of-huge-southern-california-methane-leak-makes-plume-visible/). Apparently the Aliso canyon natural gas leak has been going on for more than two months, dumping tens of thousands of _kilogram_s of NG into the air every hour. One of the major components of NG is methane, a greenhouse gas that is much worse than CO[sub]2[/sub]. They are not expecting to get it under control for at least another month. The good news/bad news here is that though methane is a much more potent GHG than CO2, its atmospheric residency is much shorter, on the order of about 12 years. The bad news is, well, for CO2 it’s much longer, with a mean of about 100 years – more than enough time to instigate long-term feedbacks. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258/31 "2016-09-16T21:01:19Z")
[Large-ish spill of gasoline in Alabama, along the major SE area pipeline](http://usuncut.com/news/emergency-pipeline-spill/) seems to be getting no coverage outside of the area. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/environmental-bad-news-of-the-day/737258.md?page=1)