Posted on 06/08/2007 4:22:01 PM PDT by Vob
Up to two million tires are at the bottom of the ocean floor off the coast of Florida. They damage reefs, wash up on the beach and create a hazard for beachgoers. How did they get there? Don’t ask ABC News.
With the power of government and the green movement of the 1970s, the process was set into motion to build artificial reefs from used tires. All ABC could say was that “someone” had gotten the idea going.
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SOW, is there a central file keeping all of the articles suitable for roasting liberals with after the fact?
Not that I know of, but there should be.
It would have to have super-duper top security to guard against cyber pants smuggling ...
And they still want us to listen to their ideas. I know how we can combat global warming, everyone drive around with your windows open and the air conditioner on high. Same with your homes. Be sure and drive more than you need to cuz we need all the cool air we can get. We’ll just take over for nature and cool the earth. Come on now, if we caused it we should be willing to fix in. >S<
is there a central file keeping all of the articles suitable for roasting liberals with after the fact?
Yes, after that happened, it was fondly known by some of us as the John Vliet Lindsay Memorial Expressway.
I remembered it now. Type Keyword search Nuketheleft for several articles that can be used to roast liberals.
Trouble is, while you were testifying, others were writing bribe checks, and still others were cashing them.
Has anyone yet quoted,
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!”
?
So now someone has to go clean up this mess at the tax payers expense. Great, just great.
Any other bright ideas greenies?
LOL!
This is one of those ‘it seemed like a good idea at the time’ stories,” said ABC Correspondent Jeffrey Kofman.
This is what they’ll be saying about lowering carbon emissions in about 20 years.
Yeah and I rememeber Jacque Cousteau and the Hollywood Environmentalist of the Month Telling us in the 1970’s we have only 8 more years and the Oceans are going to turn into Molasses.... while we were going to experience Global Cooling..... Ha Ha The Good Old days!
If you Thought tires were bad and MTBE look what Contraceptive Pills have done to the environment!
Estrogen overload
Widespread use of birth control pills harming the environment
Millions of women in the United States ingest excess estrogen every day in the form of birth control pills. Within 24 hours, the effluent from those 12 million doses ends up in our sewage systems. And then?
The April 17 Scientific American reported results of a study warning that “many streams, rivers and lakes already bear warning signs that the fish caught within them may also be carrying enough chemicals that mimic the female hormone estrogen to cause breast cancer cells to grow.”
“Fish are really a sentinel, just like canaries in the coal mine 100 years ago,” says Conrad Volz, co-director of exposure assessment at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute’s Center for Environmental Ecology. “We need to pay attention to chemicals that are estrogenic in nature, because they find their way back into the water we all use.”
According to the Freshwater Institute’s Fisheries and Oceans section, “The potent synthetic estrogens excreted by women taking hormone replacement therapy or birth control pills are not completely broken down in the sewage treatment process and are discharged into waterways.”
While cautioning that the exact process of hormonal confusion is not yet clear, the Scientific American article continued, “But the [estrogenic] effects on the fish themselves were clear: the gender of nine of the fish [tested] could not be determined.”
“Increased estrogenic active substances in the water are changing males so that they are indistinguishable from females,” Volz found. “There are eggs in male gonads as well as males are secreting a yolk sac protein. Males aren’t supposed to be making egg stuff.”
So true.
McAllister helped found Broward Artificial Reef Inc., which got tires from Goodyear and organized hundreds of volunteers with boats and barges. A Goodyear blimp even dropped a gold- painted tire into the ocean at the site to commemorate the start.
It is unclear how much it cost to build the reef, but McAllister said his group raised several thousand dollars. The county also chipped in, and Goodyear donated equipment to bind and compress the tires.
A 1972 Goodyear news release proclaimed that the reef would "provide a haven for fish and other aquatic species," and noted the "excellent properties of scrap tires as reef material."
Words of Wisdom from Professor Ray McAllister, Geologist, Oceanographer, Ocean Engineer, Self Proclaimed Diving Dinosaur and Author of Diving Locations, Boynton/Dania
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