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Surprise! More Than Twice As Much Mercury In Environment As Thought
sciencehabit writes The most comprehensive estimate of mercury released into the environment is putting a new spotlight on the potent neurotoxin. By accounting for mercury in consumer products, such as thermostats, and released by industrial processes, the calculations more than double previous tallies of the amount of mercury that has entered the environment since 1850. The analysis also reveals a previously unknown spike in mercury emissions during the 1970s, caused largely by the use of mercury in latex paint.
Rather than post something intelligent you point your finger at "those rascally Republicans"? CFLs are gnarly and contain mercury...EPA directions for cleaning a CFL break should scare people, but they are a small part of the problem (soon to be worse as CFLs really start filling our landfills). Those Republicans aren't anti-science no matter how many times you Liberals claim as such.
Where is "Environment"? I've never heard of a place by that name. Or was the headline about ambient mercury in "the environment"?
The good news is that finding out that there is twice as much of it around means that it is half as harmful as we were thinking it was, assuming the retarded LNT model preferred by statists everywhere.
See that "Preview" button?
Yet another completely idiotic troll post from slashdot's resident moron. I also have to mention in passing that the law which shoved CFLs down consumers' throats was enacted by the Democrat controlled House and Senate in 2007. So thank your heros Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for that one.
Now there is a lot more mercury available to be put, in elemental form, into vaccines.
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