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Posted Thu Apr 16 2009: from CSIRO Australia via ScienceDaily:
Climate Change May Wake Up 'Sleeper' Weeds http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1239898663
 Weeds cost Australia more than A$4 billion a year either in control or lost production and cause serious damage to the environment. In an address given April 15 in Perth to the Greenhouse 09 conference on climate change, CSIRO researcher, Dr John Scott, said, however, that those cost estimates were only based on the damage caused by weeds known to be active in Australia. A recent CSIRO report for the Australian Government's Land and Water Australia looked at what effects climate changes anticipated for 2030 and 2070 might have on the distribution of 41 weeds that pose a threat to agriculture ("sleeper" species) and the natural environment ("alert" species).
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Seems to me "sleeping" will be the only thing we'll want to do in the global warming future.

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