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Seabirds are eating contamined fish at sea, returning to land and raising DDT and mercury levels in the Arctic with their droppings.

I'm just going to post this article for information, but feel free to discuss or comment if it concerns you. I'm too depressed to comment.
http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=canada_home&articleID=1979821
TORONTO (CP) - Seabird droppings are leaving more than a foul mess in the Arctic - they're contaminating northern lakes and ponds with extremely high levels of mercury and DDT, Canadian researchers have found.

Concentrations of the chemicals were found to be as much as 60 times higher in bodies of water on Devon Island, Nunavut, than in other Arctic areas, says a study to be published Friday in the journal Science.

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Makes me glad I don't live in the arctic.

Oh no! The seagulls will maybe get super-powers from the waste and turn evil, smashing civilsations around the world with their laser eye beams and sonic screech.
Who stop this menace?


To clarify ProMonkians is not insensative to the plight of nature, he is just very very bored. On most days he'd be angered at this story, but not today.

Oh no! The seagulls will maybe get super-powers from the waste and turn evil, smashing civilsations around the world with their laser eye beams and sonic screech.
Who stop this menace?

I advocate increased nuclear testing in the Pacific. Clearly we need Godzilla's help on this one, and he appears to be a pretty heavy sleeper.

I advocate increased nuclear testing in the Pacific. Clearly we need Godzilla's help on this one, and he appears to be a pretty heavy sleeper.
lol... quit cheering me up.

lol... quit cheering me up.

If I didn't already live on the edge of the world's most radioactively contaminated sea (the Irish sea, thanks to the sterling efforts of British Nuclear Fuels Limited) I would be more actively disturbed by the article, as it is dull acceptance is all it really triggers in me.

I advocate increased nuclear testing in the Pacific. Clearly we need Godzilla's help on this one, and he appears to be a pretty heavy sleeper.

Sod Godzilla, we need a Brittish mutant to deal with this threat (restore some of the old pride). Therefore I propose 'Opperation Badger Bombing'. Our best bombers will load up armed each with a 50 megatonne warhead and proceed to nuke strategic sites around the Brittish contryside. Our handsomist scientists pedict this will result in one giant mutank badger being created. With Badgezilla nobody will be able to stop us!!

Sod Godzilla, we need a Brittish mutant to deal with this threat (restore some of the old pride). Therefore I propose 'Opperation Badger Bombing'. Our best bombers will load up armed each with a 50 megatonne warhead and proceed to nuke strategic sites around the Brittish contryside. Our handsomist scientists pedict this will result in one giant mutank badger being created. With Badgezilla nobody will be able to stop us!!
Well... the handsome ones are the smartest.

...go go go godzilla....

What, the amazing mutant super-power to grow tumours all over themselves?

Wow.

look who is saying this...

environmental toxicology professor at the University of Ottawa...


is she possiblely just using this to get more funding? How come no group ever says...yup there is no big problem...cut our funding please we are useless....

look who is saying this...

environmental toxicology professor at the University of Ottawa...


is she possiblely just using this to get more funding? How come no group ever says...yup there is no big problem...cut our funding please we are useless....
Well, if it was the hairdressing professor making these claims, would you believe her?

look who is saying this...

environmental toxicology professor at the University of Ottawa...


is she possiblely just using this to get more funding? How come no group ever says...yup there is no big problem...cut our funding please we are useless....

1) Why does no-one ever say "cut our funding?" If we look at things from
your perspective, and put things in terms of money, trade places with
her.
Imagine, even for a second, that everything she's saying is bullsh!t.
But she's getting LOADS of money (somehow).
Question: would YOU want your funding cut?

2) It may well be possible that she's using it to get more funding, but
what if she's not, and she doesn't want the Arctic filled with
pollutants?
Now...Godzilla (and, if you believe the British, BADGE-zilla) are interesting
options, but what is the ONE thing that attracts seagulls more than
anything else?

Yep! Go back to the '80s, go to Fraggle Rock, and resurrect "Madam
Trashheap", supe HER up with size-increasing what-nots and other
radioactive vitamins, and the gulls will fly to her like
flies to sh- um...I mean MOTHS to a FLAME!

Now...Godzilla (and, if you believe the British, BADGE-zilla) are interesting options, but what is the ONE thing that attracts seagulls more than anything else?
Yeah. The likelihood of man being affected by his own toxic waste (or more properly, innocent human beings affected by unfeeling bastards) has just become real and imminent.