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  Chlorine

  Chlorine is powerful bactericide, the alternatives are even nastier.  Thus you will find all sorts of household products that contain bleach.  Suprisingly this is one of the major sources of chlorine in municiple waste streams.  There are a few things one can do to eliminate household chlorine.   Use sodium percarbonate as a bleach/cleaner, when it breaks down it produces water and sodium carbonate.  Good old soap does a decent job of killing bacteria.

  We are stuck with chlorine for drinking water, or chlorine dioxide.  Besides the usual bacteria, one can now find viri such as Hep A in the water.  Not cool.  I would much rather consume a little chlorine than catch Hep A.

  Bob
  On Umbra on chlorine posted 2 years, 8 months ago 13 Responses

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  GLobal Warming

  To add to this comment, can one trust scientists?  Yes there are scientists that have an agenda and they may pick either side of the argument (yes there is global warming, no there is not global warming).  I personally hate the term global warming, I prefer climate change.  There well be part of the earth that can get colder. there well be areas that will get dryer or wetter, etc.  Scientists a hundred years from now can look at todays weather and determine if it was part of a 'global warming' trend or an el nino trend or part of the 23 million year temperature cycle, etc.  

  In the case of the NOAA scientist, I believe that he is right.  Of course I will never know if he is right or wrong because I will be dead long before the hundred years are up.On Umbra on trusting scientists posted 2 years, 9 months ago 9 Responses