Evidence! Data! Three cheers for reality based thinking. John On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The real loss with honey is that bees are dying from colony collapse > syndrome. Bees are needed to pollinate just about everything. It could be > a coincidence, but the planet is in a mass planetary extinction of > species. (Something like the sixth in its history.) A planet-wide > extinction could take a couple of centuries in human years; in geological > time it shows up as one instantaneous event. This particular extinction > may be triggered by humans, for example what we're doing to the oceans. > > > ****http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/07bees.html > > > Robert Paul > The Northwest A. A. Milne Society > > > > > > > -- John McCreery The Word Works, Ltd., Yokohama, JAPAN Tel. +81-45-314-9324 jlm@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.wordworks.jp/