Posted on 04/29/2021 12:02:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
A known DDT dump site off the coast of Southern California is considerably larger than suspected.
Finding 2,500 barrels would’ve been a lot. Same for 250 barrels. Heck, even the discovery of 25 barrels at a former DDT dumpsite would’ve been upsetting. But 25,000 barrels? That’s astonishingly large.
But such is the result of a recently concluded survey led by the University of California, San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From March 10 to 24, a team of researchers mapped 36,000 acres across a stretch of seafloor between Santa Catalina Island and the Los Angeles coast. This area was previously identified as a hotspot for DDT—a notorious pesticide that’s now banned around the world owing to its toxicity.
Back in 2011 and 2013, David Valentine, a research scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, detected concentrated levels of DDT in sediments at this location, along with 60 barrels suspected of containing DDT-laced sludge. Alarmingly, other scientists detected elevated levels of the toxic chemical in dolphins and sea lions.
Continue reading…
https://www.livescience.com/ddt-dump-catalina-island.html
I’ll take it!
By the way this was the first EPA case and it was based on a complete lie. DDT is safe.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/67252
The dump has been known for more than 40 years. Why is it now suddenly “news?”
Send it to Florida. We can use on the mosquitos here.
Was it inside a big yellow taxi?
That’s where Rachel Carson dumped it overboard!
So true...they are especially horrible this year.
Democrats need to spend money..........................
Haul it up, ship it to the east coast, and let’s push malaria back down to the tip of Florida.
I am beginning to wonder if the left is against mosquito control measures because such measures would prevent diseases that the left would like to use for more covidlike “crisis”-driven change.
Trump is no longer president therefor they have to do something.
“DDT is safe.”
Whenever us kids heard the DDT-spraying mosquito control plane flying low over the house, we’d run outside and stand under it. I must have been drenched with DDT at least 50 times.
Any skeeters? NOPE.
I remember the DDT truck well as a young child. The truck had a speaker-system, with a message telling us all to go inside and come out after 15 minutes.
I remember the trees would glisten like after a rain, and the laboratory smell in the air
We used to ride in the fog behind the trucks in Tampa. Say, you don’t think............
No. They are anti-human. And most want to see the non-white populations reduced to nothing. Banning DDT impacts non-white populations the most.
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