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Melting glaciers may release DDT and contaminate Antarctic environment
topnews.in ^ | May 27, 2008 | Mohit Joshi

Posted on 05/27/2008 11:11:48 AM PDT by PROCON

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To: RexBeach
This explains the low rate of malaria in Antarctica!!
21 posted on 05/27/2008 11:43:32 AM PDT by catman67
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To: PROCON

Don’t worry. McCain will rush to the rescue. He’ll issue Carbon Credit and DDT cards to every American. At a nominal one-time-only fee, of course. Well, maybe make that fee once-a-month.

Either way, you’ll get the same great protection.


22 posted on 05/27/2008 11:45:08 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: PROCON

“May” “Could” “Might” are what passes for “Science” these days.


23 posted on 05/27/2008 11:47:31 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: catman67

LOL!!!


24 posted on 05/27/2008 11:49:21 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Picture Alaska without mosquitoes. Hmmm — not possible!


25 posted on 05/27/2008 11:50:44 AM PDT by 353FMG (What marxism and fascism could not destroy, liberalism did.)
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To: PROCON
Melting glaciers may release DDT and contaminate Antarctic environment

Not as much as China and India release.

26 posted on 05/27/2008 11:53:17 AM PDT by fso301
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To: PROCON

Ye flippin’ gods—the global warming claims just keep on getting nuttier and nuttier and nuttier..........


27 posted on 05/27/2008 11:57:26 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Oldexpat

LOL!


28 posted on 05/27/2008 11:59:39 AM PDT by WildcatClan (Don't blame me...............I supported Duncan Hunter.)
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To: what_not2007
1. Liberals are absolutely braindead.
2. Counting Crows do a great cover of "Taxi"
29 posted on 05/27/2008 12:24:31 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: newfreep

If liberals are brain dead, what would a little DDT hurt anyway? *shrug*

And Joni Mitchell’s “Taxi” was a great song, even if she was living in utopia.


30 posted on 05/27/2008 12:27:00 PM PDT by hoe_cake
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To: PROCON

Releasing two to eight pounds of DDT, OH NOES!

We used hundreds of thousands of tons of the stuff before it was banned.


31 posted on 05/27/2008 12:34:29 PM PDT by CGTRWK
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To: PetroniusMaximus

This article is double-moot. Aside from the global warming falsehood, DDT was banned under a false pretense (that it was danger to some fowl). That research is known to be FABRICATED , ergo FALSE. So, even if you buy the dubious assertion that (anthropogenic) global warming is causing significant amounts of DDT to be released, there is no proof that it will cause any significant damage. Someone needs to start decrying the greed and avariciousness of BIG RESEARCH.


32 posted on 05/27/2008 12:34:31 PM PDT by DeltaZulu
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To: PROCON

DDT is very persistent in Nature in that the chemical is very resistent to breaking-down naturally.

Even today, it is the most common pesticide found on US grown fruit and vegetables even though it has been banned since the 1970s.

On the other hand, there are lots of insects everywhere in the world so the insecticide effects of the left-over DDT are now insignificant.


33 posted on 05/27/2008 12:46:39 PM PDT by JustDoItAlways
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To: what_not2007
If liberals are brain dead, what would a little DDT hurt anyway? *shrug*

IF? There is no IF to it. Liberals ARE braindead - why else do they embrace an evil philosophy (socialism) that has failed time and time again.

Sheesh, buy a vowel and get an American brain. Liberalism cannot be defended.

34 posted on 05/27/2008 12:48:44 PM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: newfreep

Me defending liberalism? No way.

:`)


35 posted on 05/27/2008 12:50:40 PM PDT by hoe_cake
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To: PROCON
Hey, it's only worth 100,000 human lives annually.
A small price to pay to "feel good" about being "green" and clueless...
36 posted on 05/27/2008 1:06:50 PM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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To: ETL
It is the same exact data Al Gore and the rest of the man-made global warmers refer to.

This statement, and the graph is all that's necessary to totally destroy the Gorons...

Before the industrial revolution, what "man-caused" activities triggered the previous global warming and cooling cycles?

The controversy is not about global warming. That natural cycle is beyond dispute. Yet the Gorons keep beating that drum to scam the planet.

37 posted on 05/27/2008 1:10:52 PM PDT by Publius6961 (You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
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To: PROCON

nump


38 posted on 05/27/2008 1:25:52 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: PROCON

I’m more worried about seabed methane.


39 posted on 05/27/2008 1:39:04 PM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: PROCON
In the study, scientist Heidi N. Geisz and colleagues estimate that up to 2.0 - 8.8 pounds of DDT are released into coastal waters annually along the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet from glacial meltwater.

Even if true that is insignificant to the point of extreme absurdity.

40 posted on 05/27/2008 2:06:37 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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