This is an ... alarmist take.
CFLs contain mercury - but a tiny amount, just milligrams. They're not particularly dangerous, broken or not. If you break one, it might scatter one or a few tiny, tiny droplets of mercury, too small to find. They will eventually evaporate and disappear, but at such a low rate that there won't be any detectable amount of mercury vapour in the air.
It is definitely far, far below any level that could cause you any harm at all - and elemental mercury isn't very dangerous to life, anyways. It's organic mercury compounds that are bad, and there aren't any of those in a fluorescent bulb, compact or traditional tube.
People used to *drink* large quantities of mercury as a health treatment for syphilis, among other things. In it's metallic, liquid form, it's just not much of a health hazard.
Klimatalarmismen och demoniseringen av fossila brÀnslen fortsÀtter i Public Service - KLIMATET 12 med Staffan Mörner
Den svenska regeringen anvĂ€nder sig av klassiska högerextremistiska knep för att skapa en falskt verklighetsbild. Lögner. Ăverdrifter. Felaktigheter. Angrepp pĂ„ vetenskapen. PĂ„ sĂ„ sĂ€tt banar de vĂ€g för en kriminalpolitik som Ă€r felaktig och vansinnig. En kriminalpolitik som kommer att öka brottsligheten
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The scientists identify many reasons why islands can grow in size despite the small annual rises in sea level seen in many parts of the world. It is noted that island shorelines are constantly changing due to factors such tides, winds, nearshore hydrodynamics and the transport of sediment. On inhabited islands, human action such as fish farming and land reclamation can be important.
Of course, humans action can have a number of unintended consequences, notably the mining of coral and the breakdown of natural water barriers.
Good to know facts, lets see what another three decades will do. The article itself isn't much of a read do to its poking a laugh at the climate change hysteria, its not good journalism, but the article does present a counterbalance to the one-sided alarmism that seem to prevail. (Environmental knowledge is inversely associated with climate change anxiety - link.springer.com/article/10.1âŠ)
#Climate #Water #Islands #Alarmism
Islands That Climate Alarmists Said Would Soon "Disappear" Due to Rising Sea Found to Have Grown in Size â The Daily Sceptic
This study tests the hypotheses that overall environmental knowledge and climate-specific knowledge are inversely related to climate change anxiety, such that people who know more (less) about the environment in general, and about climate in particular, are less (more) anxious about climate change. Time lagged data were collected from Nâ=â2,066 individuals in Germany. Results showed that, even after controlling for demographic characteristics, personality characteristics, and environmental attitudes, overall environmental knowledge and climate-specific knowledge were negatively related to climate change anxiety (both Bâ=â-.09, pâ<â.001).
#ChatControl may be dead, but unfortunately this doesn't mean we can relax just now.
EU citizens, you want to be able to trust your computer not to accept a "mandatory root certificate"?
Please contact your representatives.
Let's #fixEIDAS! The proposal is absolutely bonkers; appeals to fix it have been met with incomprehension and silence.
https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/
I assure you it's not "#alarmism".
Read Article 45 of the proposal.
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