Posted on 06/21/2021 10:27:55 AM PDT by Olog-hai
When British environmental geochemist Jon Hawkings arrived in Greenland for the first time in 2012, he was impressed. “It’s mind-blowing: You look onto the horizon and it’s just ice and it goes on for 150, 200 kilometers at least.”
He went to the Arctic with a group of international scientists. Their goal was to investigate the relationship between nutrients entering coastal ecosystems from glacial meltwater. But the group’s research took an unexpected turn. The scientists analyzed samples from meltwater rivers and fjords and found concentrations of dissolved mercury among the highest ever recorded.
Despite it being a pristine and remote environment, with no industrial activity or apparent source of pollution, runoff water coming from three different glaciers in southwest Greenland contains as much mercury as water in far more industrialized areas. […]
Unlike what is seen in China, the evidence indicates that the mercury in Greenland originates from natural geological sources in the ice sheet bed. The findings were a surprise. […]
Despite naturally originating from the ice sheet bed, the mercury found in Greenland raises concerns. One of them has to do with global warming. Around 10% of the world’s land area is covered by glaciers. As glacial systems increasingly melt, Hawkings affirms that should the results found in southwest Greenland be true to other parts of the island as well, a concerning trend could take place. …
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Greta…BLAME GREENLAND!
Oh, global warming. I see.
Speed and ice don’t mix. No telling where the other parts ended up.
Wow! Didn't see that one coming!..................................../s
Ah, so tthat’s where all the glass thermometers wound up…
I hope they can find a white conservative to blame this on.
Does the mercury show up in the fish caught in the ocean around Greenland?
Trump offered to take Greenland off Denmark’s hands, but they said no.
Oh my lord…now we will all become as mad as hatters.
it certainly shows up in predator fish caught in North America fresh water (pike, muskie especially).
But it is “natural” pollution, so it must be OK? Reminds me of when we were in-port at Groton, with the reactor shutdown, and the airborne radiation detectors alarmed. The ELT took an air sample on the dock, and if it turned out to be from the decay of Radon gas, it was OK because it was from the coal burning power plants up river. Even though the radiation levels exceeded the Navy limits, since it was “natural” it was OK!
Speaking of... Buried deep under a hill in central China, surrounded by an underground moat of poisonous mercury, lies an entombed emperor who’s been undisturbed for more than two millennia.
How does one make a moat of Mercury?
Must be from all those thermometers that broke from global warming.....
But on the plus side, maybe Al Gore can wrangle another Nobel Prize out of this.
That would be logical.
But those who worship "nature" are into pagan worship, not logic or reason.
I guess if mercury is frozen into the glaciers, that pretty much takes us off the hook for contaminating the planet during the Industrial Revolution.
Same with asbestos - prehistoric caves are loaded with it - blame the cave men and saber-tooth tigers.
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