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Look For This Incorporated in Global Warming Arguments

Hey folks,

It’s only a matter of time until you hear this incorporated into the whole Global Warming scam. It just fits the templet. But it is interesting. According to Reuters -Dioxin pollution leads to more baby girls: study By Jonathan SpicerThu Oct 18, 5:24 PM ET

More girls than boys are born in some Canadian communities because airborne pollutants called dioxins can alter normal sex ratios, even if the source of the pollution is many kilometers away, researchers say.

Dioxin exposure has been shown elsewhere to lead to both higher cancer rates and the birth of more females.

Researchers at the IntrAmericas Centre for Environment and Health say their findings, released this month, confirm the phenomenon in Canada.

The study also reveals the health risks of living within 25 km (15.5 miles) of sources of pollution -- a greater distance than previously thought, they said.

Normally, 51 percent of births are boys and 49 percent are girls. But the ratio was reversed -- with as few as 46 males born for every 54 females -- in Canadian cities and towns where parents were exposed to pollutants from sources such as oil refineries, paper mills and metal smelters, according to the study.

“If you find an inverted sex ratio, and want to know what causes it, look for sources of dioxin,” said James Argo, a medical geographer who headed the study, which was published in a journal of the American Chemical Society.

“In every one of those cities where those industries are found ... there was a higher probability of female births to male births,” Argo said in an interview.

Using birth data and an inventory of pollution sources, the study also concluded that early exposure to dioxins -- even at 25 km away from the source -- increased the risk of cancer later in life in a group of 20,000 people surveyed during the 1990s.

Previous studies that linked dioxins with cancer and a gender imbalance focused on smaller distances, usually about 5 km, Argo said.

Dioxins are toxic chemicals found in very small amounts in the air, water, soil and some foods.

The large-scale burning of municipal and medical waste is the primary source of dioxins in Canada, but they are also created by fuel and wood burning, electrical power generation, and in the production of iron and steel.

Since more females were born in the 90 communities studied, more breast, uterine, cervical and ovarian cancers were observed among them than other forms of cancer, Argo said.

According to Dioxin Facts.org -Dioxins in Depth

Dioxin is an unwanted by-product of incineration, uncontrolled burning and certain industrial processes.

The term dioxin refers to a large family of compounds that includes 17 compounds of particular interest because it is thought that these compounds have similar mechanisms of toxicity.

Nevertheless, the toxicities of dioxins vary greatly, with the least toxic compound estimated to be 10,000 less potent than the most toxic.

Dioxins occur as complex mixtures of these 17 family member compounds.

Also according to this site,

OTHER category includes: diesel heavy-duty trucks, industrial wood combustion, diesel off-road equipment, EDC/VCM production, sintering plants, automobiles using leaded gasoline, land applied 2,4-D, iron ore sintering, oli-fired utilities, lightweight aggregate kilns that combust hazardous waste, petroleum refining, catalyst regeneration, cigarette smoke, boilers/industrial furnaces, crematoria, and drum reclamation.

Note: Dioxin here is defined as the totality of 7 dioxins and 10 furans. “TEQ” denotes “toxic equivalent,” a quantitative measure of the combined toxicity of a mixture of dioxin-like chemicals.

Source: U.S. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency). 2006. An inventory of sources and environmental releases of dioxin-like compounds in the United States for the years 1987, 1995, and 2000. National Center for Environmental Assessment, Washington, DC; EPA/600/P-03/002F.

So if by reading this you feel that it seems Dioxins are everywhere, you are right. So this new study saying that one of the byproducts is more females than males, then why is this not everywhere?

Look again at where Dioxins can be found. “diesel heavy-duty trucks,” Ban them. “industrial wood combustion, diesel off-road equipment, EDC/VCM production, sintering plants, automobiles using leaded gasoline,” Ban them. Or use E85. “land applied 2,4-D, iron ore sintering, oli-fired utilities,” Do not build anymore. “ lightweight aggregate kilns that combust hazardous waste, petroleum refining,” Do not build anymore. But do not even THINK about Nuclear. “catalyst regeneration, cigarette smoke,” Cigarette Smoke? They are already trying to ban that. “boilers/industrial furnaces, crematoria, and drum reclamation.” Ban EVERYTHING for the sake of the planet!!!{Sigh}

Like I said, it fits the templet.
Peter

Sources:
Reuters -Dioxin pollution leads to more baby girls: study
Dioxin Facts.org -Dioxins in Depth