Comments on: Geology Fail: California Moves to Disown State Rock http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/07/14/geology-fail-california-moves-to-disown-state-rock/ Sat, 11 May 2013 22:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Terry http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/07/14/geology-fail-california-moves-to-disown-state-rock/#comment-22423 Terry Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:12:04 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=10993#comment-22423 I am a biologist and a research biochemist specializing in natural occurring (NOA) “asbestos” in California. The legislature is a day late (meaning decades late) and a dollar short (meaning, well more) and working on the complete wrong subject. ADAO is not intentionally misleading, but they as a group are misleading. Natural occurring forms of asbestos occur in all states in the ground from soft friable easily airborne to hard rock hard to blow up with dynamite. In California communities have lived on all forms of natural occurring Chrysotile “asbestos” for well over 200 years. Intensive studies of death certificates shows no excess lung cancer or any excess mesothelioma at Chrysotile sites at all. San Francisco is the most contaminated Chrysotile city on earth. Yet small communities in California, inside El Dorado, Amador, Toulomne, who have lived on Tremolite asbestos deposits for only short periods, show large quantities of excess mesothelioma. Not just in humans but in animals too. Huge levels of death from a non serpentine NOA. This news regarding Tremolite was published in the newspapers, mostly front page news, in Sacramento for 8 years straight! What do the legislators do? Why they OK “asbestos” epidemics by refusing to address the problem, and they condemn the innocent serpentine rock without even realizing what they are doing. For those who don’t know, this exact same subject has nearly killed entire communities in the United States. Groups such as ADAO focusing on Chrysotile “asbestos” to the exclusion of the far more dangerous forms of “asbestos” have lead to the communities of Libby Montana and Jefferson Parish Louisiana having enormous non serpentine epidemics of human death. The legislators could actually do something useful here, but not while they are mislead by non scientists such as ADAO. Let’s make fibrous Tremolite our State Rock!! I am a biologist and a research biochemist specializing in natural occurring (NOA) “asbestos” in California. The legislature is a day late (meaning decades late) and a dollar short (meaning, well more) and working on the complete wrong subject. ADAO is not intentionally misleading, but they as a group are misleading. Natural occurring forms of asbestos occur in all states in the ground from soft friable easily airborne to hard rock hard to blow up with dynamite. In California communities have lived on all forms of natural occurring Chrysotile “asbestos” for well over 200 years. Intensive studies of death certificates shows no excess lung cancer or any excess mesothelioma at Chrysotile sites at all. San Francisco is the most contaminated Chrysotile city on earth. Yet small communities in California, inside El Dorado, Amador, Toulomne, who have lived on Tremolite asbestos deposits for only short periods, show large quantities of excess mesothelioma. Not just in humans but in animals too. Huge levels of death from a non serpentine NOA. This news regarding Tremolite was published in the newspapers, mostly front page news, in Sacramento for 8 years straight! What do the legislators do? Why they OK “asbestos” epidemics by refusing to address the problem, and they condemn the innocent serpentine rock without even realizing what they are doing. For those who don’t know, this exact same subject has nearly killed entire communities in the United States. Groups such as ADAO focusing on Chrysotile “asbestos” to the exclusion of the far more dangerous forms of “asbestos” have lead to the communities of Libby Montana and Jefferson Parish Louisiana having enormous non serpentine epidemics of human death. The legislators could actually do something useful here, but not while they are mislead by non scientists such as ADAO.

Let’s make fibrous Tremolite our State Rock!!

]]> By: Katharine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/07/14/geology-fail-california-moves-to-disown-state-rock/#comment-22422 Katharine Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:00:32 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=10993#comment-22422 Yet another senseless battle of ochlocracy versus sanity. Yet another senseless battle of ochlocracy versus sanity.

]]> By: Carl http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/07/14/geology-fail-california-moves-to-disown-state-rock/#comment-22421 Carl Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:58:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=10993#comment-22421 They should just put up signs all around the state border and be done with it: "Warning! The state of California contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer." They should just put up signs all around the state border and be done with it:

“Warning! The state of California contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer.”

]]> By: FUAG http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/07/14/geology-fail-california-moves-to-disown-state-rock/#comment-22420 FUAG Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:06:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=10993#comment-22420 It's stuff like this that make libertarians seem like the sane ones... AND THAT IS SAYING SOMETHING!!!! It’s stuff like this that make libertarians seem like the sane ones… AND THAT IS SAYING SOMETHING!!!!

]]> By: Lady Luck http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/07/14/geology-fail-california-moves-to-disown-state-rock/#comment-22419 Lady Luck Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:49:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=10993#comment-22419 Really? Do they not have more pressing concerns in California than State Rock?! Really? Do they not have more pressing concerns in California than State Rock?!

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