Posted on 06/21/2021 10:27:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai
When British environmental geochemist Jon Hawkings arrived in Greenland for the first time in 2012, he was impressed. “It’s mind-blowing: You look onto the horizon and it’s just ice and it goes on for 150, 200 kilometers at least.”
He went to the Arctic with a group of international scientists. Their goal was to investigate the relationship between nutrients entering coastal ecosystems from glacial meltwater. But the group’s research took an unexpected turn. The scientists analyzed samples from meltwater rivers and fjords and found concentrations of dissolved mercury among the highest ever recorded.
Despite it being a pristine and remote environment, with no industrial activity or apparent source of pollution, runoff water coming from three different glaciers in southwest Greenland contains as much mercury as water in far more industrialized areas. […]
Unlike what is seen in China, the evidence indicates that the mercury in Greenland originates from natural geological sources in the ice sheet bed. The findings were a surprise. […]
Despite naturally originating from the ice sheet bed, the mercury found in Greenland raises concerns. One of them has to do with global warming. Around 10% of the world’s land area is covered by glaciers. As glacial systems increasingly melt, Hawkings affirms that should the results found in southwest Greenland be true to other parts of the island as well, a concerning trend could take place. …
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There are still glaciers in Greenland? I thought they were predicted to melt by now. I could have that mixed up with no Arctic ice.
Unlike what is seen in China, the evidence indicates that the mercury in Greenland originates from natural geological sources in the ice sheet bed.
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All the mercury that ever existed since Earth’s formation is still here. No more. No less. Some may be elemental. Some may be bound up in complex molecules.
Maybe it's not that bad in industrialized areas.
Trump was on to something.
Hi.
Wait a minute. Mercury is found mostly in volcanic rock.
How many volcanoes on Greenland?
5.56mm
Come on man, pretty easy to see that white males caused this.
Everyone knows that Viking ships used lead paint.
And Viking ships were around the glaciers.
White males once again are destroying the planet .
Almost all the mercury that ever existed since Earth’s formation is still here.
“How many volcanoes on Greenland?”
Volcanos helped form Greenland.
History’s “Ancient Aliens” and Discovery’s “Expedition Unknown” are working on a plausible theory...
It likely came from all those broken thermometers the scientists used measuring the temperature of ice. Just Sayin.
LOL
Mercury—that would be caused by “Ancient Alchemists”....
;-)
On the contrary, I would guess that the source is China's coal fired power plants spewing mercury laden ash into the upper atmosphere, where it eventually falls back to earth.
Greenland is pristine enough that the mercury can be detected. The same amount found anywhere else would be overwhelmed by local pollution.
Whatever happened to acid rain and the ozone layer?
Oh my, don’t let the children chew on them.
Who can trust such mercurial research?
Marty Feldman traveled there frequently, cantcha tell?
Whatever process put it in the glaciers, puts it everywhere else.
Dig a channel and fill it with the stuff?
#16 re “How does one make a moat of Mercury”? The Chinese were early recyclers of mercury thermometers and their contents.
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