The number of retarded polar bears is on the rise. We must destroy western civilization now, before it’s tragically too late.
Lets see if I got this right?
Mercury is occurring naturally in the environment, so we must shut down factories to save the environment from mercury that’s not coming from factories.
How’d I do? Did I get close?
This looks like a fortune to be made.
Free mercury mine. If you can stand the cold.
Why are the polar bears more important than the bacteria ?Is the author suggesting we should kill off the bacteria? That seems like a radical value jugdement to me!
The other question is, is the source China? It wouldn’t be surprising if it were... And if that’s the case China needs to reduce their mercury pollution, not the rest of the world.
Course all the hubbub could be BULL SPERM...
Can we build nuclear plants NOW?
So when water is distilled, the Mercury goes along for the ride?
Incandescents banned over "waste" heat (not so at this latitude, the need for artificial light is greatest in winter where the days are much shorter, and the heat is welcome as well).
Now, mercury is in abundance so next up will be the CFL bulbs, which contain mercury.
Okay, I get it. They really do want us sitting in the dark and the cold.
I wonder how much comes from the decayed carcasses of salmon who died after the spawning run, and then is carried downstream?
When sacred cows collide, you get hamburger.
One of the difficulties of being a Greenie is that you have so many things that you just can’t talk about.
For instance, Recycling is supposed to be an unalloyed good, but the reality is that most “recycling” is actually bogus “Waste to Energy” conversion, which is a fancy term for incineration. Every program in the country that balyhoos fabulous waste recovery numbers is relying on incineration to make it all work.
But incineration just takes the heavy metals that would have gone safely into a landfill and sends them up the smokestack. Scrubbers are good, but will only get you so far. Massive amounts of mercury escape these incinerators every day. If any other industry had this level of mercury emissions, they would be shut down immediately.
So the Greenies either have to condemn incineration, and eviscerate their carefully constructed recycling programs, or look the other way, and let the mercury spew into the environment. If you guessed that they took the expedient, unprincipled way out, you win the Kewpie Doll. They make up some cock-and-bull story about how the mercury deposits on the landscape as a harmless compound, but then admit that this “harmless” compound leads to bioaccumulation of mercury in fish and wildlife, which does not sound so harmless at all.
The Green Weenies are going to have to choose. Either they are going to have to give up on recycling or let mercury despoil the environment. They cannot have one without the other. This is just the first example of how the “ideals” of environmentalism have become ossified into special interests that accomplish the exact opposite of what was intended. Expect much more of this as the Environmental Movement matures.
Researcher code for bend over!
Dang!!!
With all the world being forced to convert to compact fluorescents and an ever increasing demand for mercury, this concentrated source of mercury compounds begs for some entrepreneur with an ice shaver to take advantage of the situation.
Bush's fault!!
While it is the bacteria causing the problem, mankind will again get the blame.
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Study casts doubt on anti-depressants I couldn't link this story dirently. They wanted folks who were registered. Bugmenot.com didn't work, but Drudge's link worked. Go figure.
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Way up where the huskies go......
Isn’t mercury an element found naturally in the environment? Maybe it’s more common than originally thought.
Compact fluorescent bulbs are not going to help, since they contain mercury. Doesn’t that require mining of mercury? Pulling it out of the earth instead of leaving it undisturbed?
Good thing it is the Arctic. Fairbanks is in the sub-Arctic so we’re safe.