Global Warming

[blueplanet]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Sep 22;106(38):16114-9. Epub 2009 Sep 2.
Polar firn air reveals large-scale impact of anthropogenic mercury emissions during the 1970s.

Faïn X, Ferrari CP, Dommergue A, Albert MR, Battle M, Severinghaus J, Arnaud L, Barnola JM, Cairns W, Barbante C, Boutron C.

Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Géophysique de l'Environnement (Unité Mixte de Recherche 5183 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/Université Joseph Fourier), 54 Rue Molière, B.P. 96, 38402 St. Martin d'Hères Cedex, France. xavier.fain@dri.edu

Mercury (Hg) is an extremely toxic pollutant, and its biogeochemical cycle has been perturbed by anthropogenic emissions during recent centuries. In the atmosphere, gaseous elemental mercury (GEM; Hg degrees ) is the predominant form of mercury (up to 95%). Here we report the evolution of atmospheric levels of GEM in mid- to high-northern latitudes inferred from the interstitial air of firn (perennial snowpack) at Summit, Greenland. GEM concentrations increased rapidly after World War II from approximately 1.5 ng m(-3) reaching a maximum of approximately 3 ng m(-3) around 1970 and decreased until stabilizing at approximately 1.7 ng m(-3) around 1995. This reconstruction reproduces real-time measurements available from the Arctic since 1995 and exhibits the same general trend observed in Europe since 1990. Anthropogenic emissions caused a two-fold rise in boreal atmospheric GEM concentrations before the 1970s, which likely contributed to higher deposition of mercury in both industrialized and remotes areas. Once deposited, this toxin becomes available for methylation and, subsequently, the contamination of ecosystems. Implementation of air pollution regulations, however, enabled a large-scale decline in atmospheric mercury levels during the 1980s. The results shown here suggest that potential increases in emissions in the coming decades could have a similar large-scale impact on atmospheric Hg levels.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19805267?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=9

[blueplanet]

You are missing the flouride component. Flourine is one of the most corrosive and toxic substances known - and flouride is a neurotoxin, read the book 'The Devil's Poison' and others. It damages the brain, creates infertility, cancer, dental flourosis, and contributes to a wide range of degenerative disorders. So why is this poison being added to our water supply? You say we should blame the smokers for cadmium - but tobacco is heavily taxed, isn't it? who benefits from this situation? You are leaving out the cocktail of pesticide residues, SSRIs and oestrogen-causing chemicals like Bisphenol A in plastics which cause infertility in humans and involuntary -change in fish. That's damaging the environment, isn't it? just as surfactants are doing, industrial products we use every day are leaching into the already polluted water supply.
       Flouride poisoning is lethal, damages the bones and reproductive system, not just the brain. Arsenic poisoning is also potentially lethal, and there have been recent incidents of both contaminants leaching into the water supply causing horrendous damage.
       You are also leaving out aluminium, one of the metals known to cause alzheimer's disease which damages neurons. This is also found in the water supply and in various food products. We also have toxic barium from chemtrails.

I am sorry I am not worrying about flouride. Are you sure alumium causes Alzheimer's disease?  I thought Alzheimer's disease is a product of mercury poisoning.  Aluminum will not cause direct damage to the nerve tissues. One univerisity has already demonstrated that mercury is the only metal that would destroy the nerve tissues.

http://knol.google.com/k/dr-max-daunderer/mercury-toxicity-and-alzheimer-disease/3otpgsm3m33p5/65#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImCpWzXJ_w&feature=related

[silverfish]

I am sorry I am not worrying about flouride. Are you sure alumium causes Alzheimer's disease?  I thought Alzheimer's disease is a product of mercury poisoning.  Aluminum will not cause direct damage to the nerve tissues. One univerisity has already demonstrated that mercury is the only metal that would destroy the nerve tissues.

http://knol.google.com/k/dr-max-daunderer/mercury-toxicity-and-alzheimer-disease/3otpgsm3m33p5/65#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VImCpWzXJ_w&feature=related

According to information I've looked from more than one source - I will chase it up for you -
aluminium can target neurons specifically causing damage leading to memory loss and Alzheimer's disease. Bear with me and I'll get back to you with something more specific. I recall that kidney dialysis patients were found to have deteriorated mentally as a result of water high in aluminium, but there is other material relating to aluminium toxicity which affects mental functions etc.

[blueplanet]

According to information I've looked from more than one source - I will chase it up for you -
aluminium can target neurons specifically causing damage leading to memory loss and Alzheimer's disease. Bear with me and I'll get back to you with something more specific. I recall that kidney dialysis patients were found to have deteriorated mentally as a result of water high in aluminium, but there is other material relating to aluminium toxicity which affects mental functions etc.

Aluminium may be indirectly related to mercury poisoning. But you apparently tried to downplay the problems of mercury pollution in a way to encourage others to oppose every climate deal. This is exactly what the mainstream media in the US is trying to do. Can we not talk about that in PM?

[silverfish]

Aluminium may be indirectly related to mercury poisoning. But you apparently tried to downplay the problems of mercury pollution in a way to encourage others to oppose every climate deal. This is exactly what the mainstream media in the US is trying to do. Can we not talk about that in PM?

No, you misunderstand me. I have no interest in downplaying the importance of mercury poisoning - but it's not just in the air, it's injected into people and killing them, by corporations that profit massively from doing so. That's horrible. I'm saying that to focus on mercury alone is a mistake - when there are numerous other, not properly recognised and very dangerous elements such as genetically modified organisms contaminating the environment, which is already happening, DU which is worldwide killing wherever it goes, 4.5 billion years active, right? causing genetic mutations, maimed children as a result of Iraq and Afghanistan - not being reported, or underreported - the DU issue alone affects the entire ecosystem, and is almost never mentioned.
The dangers of nanotechnology are rarely talked about.
        Mercury pollution is bad. So you have the UN banning incandescent light bulbs, we are told, to save energy - yet the bulbs replacing them contain mercury. Every time one of them breaks it releases mercury vapour into the atmosphere, and mercury vapour is very toxic.
        So I am saying it is a grave mistake to seize on a gas like carbon dioxide, which has been with us for thousands of years, absorbed by plants, exhaling life-giving oxygen, now they call carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant, and will be taxing everyone into oblivion because of it. That's greed, it has nothing to do with 'saving the environment', it is a gross deception, everything to do with control and subjugation, nothing to do with the environment.
         How is it that the authorities have suddenly cottoned on to 'saving the environment' when they have consistently ignored it for the past 50 years and more? because they are interested in two things only - profit and control. And if they can reduce the human population along the way, then they will do so. Why do you think that dozens of articles about a 1-child policy and population reduction have suddenly appeared everywhere? Over here in the UK, David Attenborough is going on about population reduction. This is all about eugenics.