Forget the usual suspects: Here's something to really worry about if we don't curb our CO2 emissions (a.k.a. the return of the Blob)

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...The Blob has been dormant for half a century, but it's out there and the only thing preventing it from squishing through the streets of our cities right now, leaving a slimy trail of death in its wake, is the biting cold of the polar ice cap. Remember? That's where the Air Force marooned it after a bunch of teenagers neutralized the thing by freezing it with CO2 fire extinguishers. Steve McQueen himself assured us that we were safe "as long as the Arctic stays cold."

As long as the Arctic stays cold. . .

Read the full piece at the Science Creative Quarterly here (by Laurence Hughes)

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