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Engineering360: "Arctic thaw remobilizes sequestered mercury"

10/23/2019 3:39 PM

Read Engineering360 article: Arctic thaw remobilizes sequestered mercury.
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10/23/2019 9:12 PM

Wouldn't all the world's coal deposits hold a lot more mercury than the peat in the permafrost?
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10/23/2019 11:35 PM

Is there a point here?

The perma-frost IS MELTING! "All the world's coal deposits," are NOT BURNING!
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10/24/2019 12:59 AM

Accuracy of the written word must not be important to you.
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10/24/2019 1:02 PM

The article isn't about mercury in coal though. Why bring it up.
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10/24/2019 8:26 PM

For the simple reason that the article states in the first sentence that permafrost is the largest long-term reservoir of sequestered mercury. I suspect that might be inaccurate. If it is an inaccurate assertion, that distorts the message of the article.
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10/24/2019 4:27 PM

So the mercury is mobile from the thaw but doesn't some thaw happen every year?

I smell another research grant being chased for a warming planet bandwagon.

Now if the mercury is mobile will it make the non permafrost thicker because of the expansion of mercury from the warming?

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