Fried Birds are only “Streamers”

[longknife]

So say workers at the Mojave Desert solar farm outside Vegas for the smoke from birds caught in the intense heat of mirrors. No big deal. After all, Green Power is far more important than migratory routes or the extinction of bird species.
Read more of this disgusting story @ http://www.rightwingnews.com/environment/brightsource-solar-plant-workers-have-a-name-for-birds-streamers/

 

[Old Rocks]

Well, now that is a picture of a windmill kill. And, yes, we need to engineer ways to prevent the kill of birds. Now how about all the birds killed by roads, buildings, and guy wires for radio towers. Your sudden concern for things avian seems a bit more like rightwingnut politics.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

It is cute that right wingers all of sudden care deeply about wildlife - as long as it's "green energy" that's killing them, of course.

 

[Old Rocks]

But they still want to use DDT.

 

[longknife]

But they still want to use DDT.

Tens of thousands of people dies every year from mosquito-borne diseases. All that could be stopped by spraying DDT on the habitats of the insects.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

But they still want to use DDT.

Tens of thousands of people dies every year from mosquito-borne diseases. All that could be stopped by spraying DDT on the habitats of the insects.

DDT killed exponentially more birds than solar and wind power plants combined.

DDT almost completely wiped out the Bald Eagle, the Golden Eagle, the Peregrine Falcon, and countless other birds of prey.

 

[westwall]

But they still want to use DDT.

Tens of thousands of people dies every year from mosquito-borne diseases. All that could be stopped by spraying DDT on the habitats of the insects.

DDT killed exponentially more birds than solar and wind power plants combined.

DDT almost completely wiped out the Bald Eagle, the Golden Eagle, the Peregrine Falcon, and countless other birds of prey.

The Altamont wind farm near Livermore has cut the endangered raptor population by half in 20 years.

 

[boedicca]

It is cute that right wingers all of sudden care deeply about wildlife - as long as it's "green energy" that's killing them, of course.

It's not so cute that the progs only care about wildlife when they can use it to restrict the freedom of people they don't like.

 

[Crick]

How are anyone's freedoms being restricted?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

But they still want to use DDT.

Tens of thousands of people dies every year from mosquito-borne diseases. All that could be stopped by spraying DDT on the habitats of the insects.

DDT killed exponentially more birds than solar and wind power plants combined.

DDT almost completely wiped out the Bald Eagle, the Golden Eagle, the Peregrine Falcon, and countless other birds of prey.

The Altamont wind farm near Livermore has cut the endangered raptor population by half in 20 years.

Locally, possibly. Nationally, certainly not.

 

[flacaltenn]

But they still want to use DDT.

Tens of thousands of people dies every year from mosquito-borne diseases. All that could be stopped by spraying DDT on the habitats of the insects.

DDT killed exponentially more birds than solar and wind power plants combined.

DDT almost completely wiped out the Bald Eagle, the Golden Eagle, the Peregrine Falcon, and countless other birds of prey.

The Altamont wind farm near Livermore has cut the endangered raptor population by half in 20 years.

Locally, possibly. Nationally, certainly not.

A wind farm or solar Death Ray installation might not be a numerical threat to a species -- but it is sure as hell a denial of habitat for territorial species.. All we're asking for is EQUAL due dilligience and enforcement. We shouldn't be writing death waivers for raptors just because it's green.

A few years back there was a sighting of an extremely rare sea bird (kite or albatross?) that attracted a caravan of ornis to follow it up to Scotland where they all gasped as it was sushi'ed by a windwill. This stuff IS taking a toll..

 

[flacaltenn]

BrightSource solar plant sets birds on fire as they fly overhead - Technology & Science - CBC News

Possible 'mega-trap' for wildlife

Federal wildlife officials said Ivanpah might also act as a "mega-trap" for wildlife, with the bright light of the plant attracting insects, which in turn attract insect-eating birds that fly to their death in the intensely focused light rays.

Federal and state biologists call the number of deaths significant, based on sightings of birds getting singed and falling, and on retrieval of carcasses with feathers charred too severely for flight.

The deaths are "alarming. It's hard to say whether that's the location or the technology," said Garry George, renewable-energy director for the California chapter of the Audubon Society. "There needs to be some caution."

Properly solar-roasted bird for GoldiRocks..

There's a green job for ya.. Euthanizing those birds (streamers) who are fluttering around on the 133 acres of a desert Death Ray..

 

[Crick]

I would like to see some action taken. I'd also like to see an end to your lies. The area killing birds is not 133 acres. I doubt it encompasses one acre.

 

[flacaltenn]

I would like to see some action taken. I'd also like to see an end to your lies. The area killing birds is not 133 acres. I doubt it encompasses one acre.

R U Serious? Your judgement on the scale of Ivanpah by looking it, rules out ANY engineering connection as you have claimed. A ONE acre death ray heh? I could put that in the back yard.

 

[longknife]

You want Ivanpah? Here is but one image of it ->

 

[RollingThunder]

So say workers at the Mojave Desert solar farm outside Vegas for the smoke from birds caught in the intense heat of mirrors. No big deal. After all, Green Power is far more important than migratory routes or the extinction of bird species.
Read more of this disgusting story @ http://www.rightwingnews.com/environment/brightsource-solar-plant-workers-have-a-name-for-birds-streamers/

Actually, this thread sounds (or smells) like another fossil fuel industry propaganda induced rightwingnut brainfart.

Emerging solar plants scorch birds in mid-air
IVANPAH DRY LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant's concentrated sun rays — "streamers," for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair. Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one "streamer" every two minutes....

So....some perspective.....an average of one bird "every two minutes", or 30 birds an hour are supposedly dying at this plant, but only during the full daylight hours when the sun's energy is strong enough, so no early mornings or evenings....to be generous, call it 10 hours a day although it would usually be less than that....so that makes it about 300 birds a day....times 365 days per year equals 109,500 bird deaths per year....an unfortunately high number that everyone hopes can be reduced through better designs and technological tricks to keep the birds away.....and seemingly a large amount until you consider the numbers involved in all of the other ways that human activities, structures and pets are killing birds in America.....

* Striking windows is estimated to kill close to 975 million birds per year.
* As many as 50 million bird deaths are estimated to occur from collisions with communication towers (cell phone and digital TV).
* Collisions with high tension power lines (and electrocutions) are estimated to kill around 175 million birds per year.
* Collisions with cars, trucks and other vehicles are believed to kill about 60 million birds a year.
* Hunters kill about 15 million birds per year in North America.
* "Pesticides may kill 72 million birds per year or possibly many more. The sub lethal effects of pesticides may also make the birds more susceptible to predators or unable to reproduce, essentially killing them."
* "Oil spills kill hundreds of thousands of birds a year or more."
* "Oil and wastewater pits may kill up to 2 million birds per year."
* Lead in the form of bullets and shot and fishing sinkers is ingested by the birds, ground up in the gizzard and absorbed by the body and causes a large but unknown number of bird deaths per year, perhaps as much as 4% of the total waterfowl population.
* All of the wind turbines in the country are estimated to kill about 33 thousand birds a year.
(source - Sibley Guides - Causes of Bird Mortality)

*** AND THEN there's the cats that people keep or have let escape to live wild...

Cats kill more than one billion birds each year
New estimate suggests hunting felines take bigger bite than expected out of wildlife
ScienceNews
BY SUSAN MILIUS
JANUARY 29, 2013
Domestic cats kill many more wild birds in the United States than scientists thought, according to a new analysis. Cats may rank as the biggest immediate danger that living around people brings to wildlife, researchers say. Cats may be killing far more birds each year than previously thought, as well as substantial numbers of mammals, says a new analysis based on hunting studies from around the world. America’s cats, including housecats that adventure outdoors and feral cats, kill between 1.3 billion and 4.0 billion birds in a year, says Peter Marra of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., who led the team that performed the analysis.

975 million
50 million
175 million
60 million
15 million
72 million
2 million
Call it 2 billion
Adds up to about
3,349,000,000 birds killed per year by human activities and structures
Or, if the upper range of the housecat caused deaths is true, possibly as high as
5,349,000,000 dead birds per year in just the USA because of humans.

But the anti-environmental, "coal-rolling", rightwingnuts have their panties in a twist over 110,000 possible bird deaths per year at a solar plant??? LOL. All of the other human related causes of bird deaths amount to almost that many (110,000) bird deaths every six hours.

Or could it be that their puppetmasters, the billionaire owners of the fossil fuel industry who oppose solar power as a threat to their profits, have filled their heads with meaningless nonsense propaganda about a relatively insignificant number of bird deaths in order to denigrate solar power? Oil spills and oil drilling and oil refining wastewater pits kill several million birds a year so the hypocrisy of these rightwingnut AGW deniers stinks to high heaven.

 

[SSDD]

But they still want to use DDT.

Tens of thousands of people dies every year from mosquito-borne diseases. All that could be stopped by spraying DDT on the habitats of the insects.

DDT killed exponentially more birds than solar and wind power plants combined.

DDT almost completely wiped out the Bald Eagle, the Golden Eagle, the Peregrine Falcon, and countless other birds of prey.

No it didn't.... The left lied flat out regarding the effects of DDT and as a result, the blood of all the victims of malaria is on your hands....

Bald eagles were reportedly threatened with extinction in 1921 — 25 years before widespread use of DDT. [Van Name, WG. 1921. Ecology 2:76]

After 15 years of heavy and widespread usage of DDT, Audubon Society ornithologists counted 25 percent more eagles per observer in 1960 than during the pre-DDT 1941 bird census. [Marvin, PH. 1964 Birds on the rise. Bull Entomol Soc Amer 10(3):184-186; Wurster, CF. 1969 Congressional Record S4599, May 5, 1969; Anon. 1942. The 42nd Annual Christmas Bird Census. Audubon Magazine 44:1-75 (Jan/Feb 1942; Cruickshank, AD (Editor). 1961. The 61st Annual Christmas Bird Census. Audubon Field Notes 15(2):84-300; White-Stevens, R.. 1972. Statistical analyses of Audubon Christmas Bird censuses. Letter to New York Times, August 15, 1972]

No significant correlation between DDE residues and shell thickness was reported in a large series of bald eagle eggs. [Postupalsky, S. 1971. (DDE residues and shell thickness). Canadian Wildlife Service manuscript, April 8, 1971]

Thickness of eggshells from Florida, Maine and Wisconsin was found to not be correlated with DDT residues.


Data from Krantz, WC. 1970. Pesticides Monitoring Journal 4(3):136-140.
State Thickness (mm) DDE residue (ppm)
Florida 0.50 About 10
Maine 0.53 About 22
Wisconsin 0.55 About 4


U.S. Forest Service studies reported an increase in nesting bald eagle productivity (51 in 1964 to 107 in 1970). [U.S. Forest Service (Milwaukee, WI). 1970. Annual Report on Bald Eagle Status]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists fed large doses of DDT to captive bald eagles for 112 days and concluded that “DDT residues encountered by eagles in the environment would not adversely affect eagles or their eggs.” [Stickel, L. 1966. Bald eagle-pesticide relationships. Trans 31st N Amer Wildlife Conference, pp.190-200]

Wildlife authorities attributed bald eagle population reductions to a “widespread loss of suitable habitat”, but noted that “illegal shooting continues to be the leading cause of direct mortality in both adult and immature bald eagles.” [Anon.. 1978. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Tech Bull 3:8-9]

Every bald eagle found dead in the U.S., between 1961-1977 (266 birds) was analyzed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists who reported no adverse effects caused by DDT or its residues. [Reichel, WL. 1969. (Pesticide residues in 45 bald eagles found dead in the U.S. 1964-1965). Pesticides Monitoring J 3(3)142-144; Belisle, AA. 1972. (Pesticide residues and PCBs and mercury, in bald eagles found dead in the U.S. 1969-1970). Pesticides Monitoring J 6(3): 133-138; Cromartie, E. 1974. (Organochlorine pesticides and PCBs in 37 bald eagles found dead in the U.S. 1971-1972). Pesticides Monitoring J 9:11-14; Coon, NC. 1970. (Causes of bald eagle mortality in the US 1960-1065). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 6:72-76]
Don't give me the crap that you care anything about the animals or environment, you 'Conservatives' have too many times said the hell with both in order for a rich man to make even more money.[/QUOTE]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists linked high intake of mercury from contaminated fish with eagle reproductive problems. [Spann, JW, RG Heath, JF Kreitzer, LN Locke. 1972. (Lethal and reproductive effects of mercury on birds) Science 175:328- 331]

The decline in the U.S. peregrine falcon population occurred long before the DDT years. [Hickey JJ. 1942. (Only 170 pairs of peregrines in eastern U.S. in 1940) Auk 59:176; Hickey JJ. 1971 Testimony at DDT hearings before EPA hearing examiner. (350 pre-DDT peregrines claimed in eastern U.S., with 28 of the females sterile); and Beebe FL. 1971. The Myth of the Vanishing Peregrine Falcon: A study in manipulation of public and official attitudes. Canadian Raptor Society Publication, 31 pages]

Peregrine falcons were deemed undesirable in the early 20th century. Dr. William Hornaday of the New York Zoological Society referred to them as birds that “deserve death, but are so rare that we need not take them into account.” [Hornaday, WT. 1913. Our Vanishing Wild Life. New York Zoological Society, p. 226]

he 1950′s and 1960′s saw continuing harassment trapping brooding birds in their nests, removing fat samples for analysis and operating time-lapse cameras beside the nests for extended periods of time), predation and habitat destruction. [Hazeltine, WE. 1972. Statement before Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, March 16, 1972; Enderson, JH and DD Berger. 1968. (Chlorinated hydrocarbons in peregrines from Northern Canada). Condor 70:149-153; Enderson, JH.. 1972. (Time lapse photography in peregrine nests) Living Bird 11: 113- 128; Risebrough, RW. 1970. (Organochlorines in peregrines and merlins migrating through Wisconsin). Canadian Field-Naturalist 84:247-253]

During the 1960′s, peregrines in northern Canada were “reproducing normally,” even though they contained 30 times more DDT, DDD, and DDE than the midwestern peregrines that were allegedly extirpated by those chemicals. [Enderson, JH and DD Berger. 1968. (Chlorinated hydrocarbons in peregrines from Northern Canada) Condor 70:170-178]

There was no decline in peregrine falcon pairs in Canada and Alaska between 1950 and 1967 despite the presence of DDT and DDE. [Fyfe, RW. 1959. Peregrine Falcon Populations, pp 101-114; and Fyfe, RW. 1968. Auk 85: 383-384]

The peregrine with the very highest DDT residue (2,435 parts per million) was found feeding three healthy young. [Enderson, JH. 1968. (Pesticide residues in Alaska and Yukon Territory) Auk 85: 683]

The decline in British peregrine falcons ended by 1966, though DDT was as abundant as ever. The Federal Advisory Committee on Pesticides concluded “There is no close correlation between the declines in populations of predatory birds, particularly the peregrine falcon and the sparrow hawk, and the use of DDT.” [Wilson report. 1969. Review of Organochlorine pesticides in Britain. Report by the Advisory Committee on toxic chemicals. Department of Education and Science]

Peregrine falcon and sparrow hawk egg shells thinned in Britain prior to the use of DDT. [Redcliff, DH. 1967. Nature 215: 208-210; Redcliff, DH. 1970 J Applied Biology 7:67; and Redcliff, DH. 1967. Nature 215: 208-210]

In congressional testimony, Charles Wurster, a biologist for the Environmental Defense Fund, noted the abundance of birds during the DDT years, referring to “increasing numbers of pheasants, quail, doves, turkeys and other game species.” [Wurster, C.F. 1969 Congressional Record S4599, May 5, 1969]

The Audubon Society’s annual bird census in 1960 reported that at least 26 kinds of birds became more numerous during 1941 – 1960. [See Anon. 1942. The 42nd annual Christmas bird census." Audubon Magazine 44;1-75 (Jan/Feb 1942), and Cruicjshank, AD (editor) 1961. The 61st annual Christmas bird census. Audubon Field Notes 15(2); 84-300]

Great increases inmost kinds of hawks during the DDT years were reported by the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association (Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania). [Taylor, JW. Summaries of Hawk Mountain migrations of raptors, 1934 to 1970. In Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association Newsletters]

National forest studies from Wisconsin and Michigan reported an increase in nesting osprey productivity from 11 young in 1965 to 74 young in 1970. [U.S. Forest Service, Milwaukee. 1970. Annual report on osprey status in national forests in Wisconsin and Michigan]

A study of fish-eaters at Funk Island (on the North Atlantic coast) reported that, despite diets contaminated with DDT, gannet and murres pairs increased by 1,500 percent and 10,000 percent from 1945 to the early 1970s. [Bruemmer, F. 1971. Animals Magazine, p.555, April]

Gas chromatography detected DDT in samples of wildlife and soil collected before DDT was even produced. [Scott, ML et al. 1975. Poultry Science 54: 350-368 ("Many reports relating reproductive declines of wild birds (and body stores in those birds) to DDT and DDE were based on analytical procedures that did not distinguish between DDT and PCBs."); Sherman, RW. 1973. Artifacts and mimics of DDT and other insecticides. J New York Entomol Soc 81:152-163 (Robin collected in 1938); Coon, FB. 1966. Electron capture gas chromatograph analyses of selected samples of authentic pre-DDT origin. Presented at the Conference of American Chemical Society in New York (Gibbon collected in 1935); Frazier, BE et al. 1970. Pesticides Monitoring J 4:67-70, 1970 (Soil collected in 1911); Bowman, MC et al. 1965. J Econ Entomology 58: 896-902 (Soil collected in 1940); Hom, W. 1974. Science 184:1197-1199 (1930-vintage Santa Barbara basin sediment)]

DDT was mistaken for other organochlorines. [Glotfelty, DE.. 1970. Anal Chem 42:82-84 (Misidentifications of DDT resulted from interference by "pigment-related natural products in photosynthesic tissues."); Hylin, JW. 1969. Residue Reviews 26:127 ("Organochlorine compounds in plants can cause interference in residue analyses "); Sims, JJ. 1977. Press release, June 15, 1977 (Certain marine algae produce halogen compounds that are detected by gas chromatography and may be misidentified as DDT metabolites);George JL and DEH Frear. 1966. Pesticides in the Antarctic. J Appld Ecology 3 (suppl): 155-167 (Antarctic samples of fish and birds widely touted as containing DDT residues likely contained PCBs instead that leached from the plastic containers they were stored in for 6 months prior to analysis)]

And I could go on and on and on....

 

[RollingThunder]

DDT killed exponentially more birds than solar and wind power plants combined.

DDT almost completely wiped out the Bald Eagle, the Golden Eagle, the Peregrine Falcon, and countless other birds of prey.

No it didn't.... The left lied flat out regarding the effects of DDT and as a result, the blood of all the victims of malaria is on your hands....

More ridiculous rightwingnut mythology.

In reality...

DDT
Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia
Environmental impact
DDT is a persistent organic pollutant that is readily adsorbed to soils and sediments, which can act both as sinks and as long-term sources of exposure contributing to terrestrial organisms. Depending on conditions, its soil half life can range from 22 days to 30 years. Routes of loss and degradation include runoff, volatilization, photolysis and aerobic and anaerobicbiodegradation. Due to hydrophobic properties, in aquatic ecosystems DDT and its metabolites are absorbed by aquatic organisms and adsorbed on suspended particles, leaving little DDT dissolved in the water itself. Its breakdown products and metabolites, DDE and DDD, are also highly persistent and have similar chemical and physical properties. DDT and its breakdown products are transported from warmer regions of the world to the Arctic by the phenomenon of global distillation, where they then accumulate in the region's food web.

Because of its lipophilic properties, DDT has a high potential to bioaccumulate, especially in predatory birds. DDT, DDE, and DDD magnify through the food chain, with apex predators such as raptor birds concentrating more chemicals than other animals in the same environment. They are very lipophilic and are stored mainly in body fat. DDT and DDE are very resistant to metabolism; in humans, their half-lives are 6 and up to 10 years, respectively. In the United States, these chemicals were detected in almost all human blood samples tested by the Centers for Disease Control in 2005, though their levels have sharply declined since most uses were banned in the US. Estimated dietary intake has also declined, although FDA food tests commonly detect it.

Effects on wildlife and eggshell thinning
DDT is toxic to a wide range of living organisms, including marine animals such as crayfish, daphnids, sea shrimp and many species of fish. It is less toxic to mammals, but may be moderately toxic to some amphibian species, especially in the larval stage. DDT, through its metabolite DDE (dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene), caused eggshell thinning and resulted in severe population declines in multiple North American and European bird of prey species. Eggshell thinning lowers the reproductive rate of certain bird species by causing egg breakage and embryo deaths. DDE related eggshell thinning is considered a major reason for the decline of the bald eagle,[8] brown pelican,[46] peregrine falcon, and osprey[1]. However, different groups of birds vary greatly in their sensitivity to these chemicals.[2] Birds of prey, waterfowl, and song birds are more susceptible to eggshell thinning than chickens and related species, and DDE appears to be more potent than DDT.[1] Even in 2010, more than forty years after the U.S. ban, California condors which feed on sea lions at Big Sur which in turn feed in the Palos Verdes Shelf area of the Montrose Chemical Superfund site seemed to be having continued thin-shell problems. Scientists with the Ventana Wildlife Society and others are intensifying studies and remediations of the condors' problems.[47]

The biological thinning mechanism is not entirely known, but there is strong evidence that p,p'-DDE inhibits calcium ATPasein the membrane of the shell gland and reduces the transport of calcium carbonate from blood into the eggshell gland. This results in a dose-dependent thickness reduction.[1][48][49][50] There is also evidence that o,p'-DDT disrupts female reproductive tract development, impairing eggshell quality later.[51] Multiple mechanisms may be at work, or different mechanisms may operate in different species.[1] Some studies show that although DDE levels have fallen dramatically, eggshell thickness remains 10–12 percent thinner than before DDT was first used.[52]

Effects on human health
Potential mechanisms of action on humans are genotoxicity and endocrine disruption. DDT can be directly genotoxic,[53] but may also induce enzymes to produce other genotoxic intermediates and DNA adducts.[53] It is an endocrine disruptor. The DDT metabolite DDEacts as an antiandrogen, but not as an estrogen. p,p'-DDT, DDT's main component, has little or no androgenic or estrogenic activity.[53] The minor component o,p'-DDT has weak estrogenic activity.

Acute toxicity
DDT is classified as "moderately toxic" by the United States National Toxicology Program(NTP)[54] and "moderately hazardous" by the World Health Organization (WHO), based on the rat oral LD50 of 113 mg/kg.[55] DDT has on rare occasions been administered orally as a treatment for barbiturate poisoning.[56]

Chronic toxicity
Diabetes
DDT and DDE have been linked to diabetes. A number of studies from the US, Canada, and Sweden have found that the prevalence of the disease in a population increases with serum DDT or DDE levels.[57][58][59][60][61][62]

Developmental toxicity
DDT and DDE, like other organochlorines, have been shown to have xenoestrogenic activity, meaning they are chemically similar enough to estrogens to trigger hormonal responses in animals. This endocrine disrupting activity has been observed in mice and rat toxicological studies, and available epidemiological evidence indicates that these effects may be occurring in humans as a result of DDT exposure. The US Environmental Protection Agency states that DDT exposure damages the reproductive system and reduces reproductive success. These effects may cause developmental and reproductive toxicity:

• A review article in The Lancet states, "research has shown that exposure to DDT at amounts that would be needed in malaria control might cause preterm birth and early weaning ... toxicological evidence shows endocrine-disruptingproperties; human data also indicate possible disruption in semen quality, menstruation, gestational length, and duration of lactation."[30]
• Human epidemiological studies suggest that exposure is a risk factor for premature birth and low birth weight, and may harm a mother's ability to breast feed.[63] Some 21st-century researchers argue that these effects may increase infant deaths, offsetting any anti-malarial benefits.[64] A 2008 study, however, failed to confirm the association between exposure and difficulty breastfeeding.[65]
• Several recent studies demonstrate a link between in utero exposure to DDT or DDE and developmental neurotoxicity in humans. For example, a 2006 University of California, Berkeley study suggests that children exposed while in the womb have a greater chance of development problems,[66] and other studies have found that even low levels of DDT or DDE in umbilical cord serum at birth are associated with decreased attention at infancy[67] and decreased cognitive skills at 4 years of age.[68]Similarly, Mexican researchers have linked first trimester DDE exposure to retarded psychomotor development.[69]
• Other studies document decreases in semen quality among men with high exposures (generally from IRS).[70][71][72]
• Studies generally find that high blood DDT or DDE levels do not increase time to pregnancy (TTP.)[73] There is some evidence that the daughters of highly exposed women may have more difficulty getting pregnant (i.e. increased TTP).[74]
• DDT is associated with early pregnancy loss, a type of miscarriage. A prospective cohort study of Chinese textile workers found "a positive, monotonic, exposure-response association between preconception serum total DDT and the risk of subsequent early pregnancy losses."[75] The median serum DDE level of study group was lower than that typically observed in women living in homes sprayed with DDT.[76]
• A Japanese study of congenital hypothyroidism concluded that in utero DDT exposure may affect thyroid hormone levels and "play an important role in the incidence and/or causation of cretinism."[77] Other studies have also found that DDT or DDE interfere with proper thyroid function.[78][79]

Other
Occupational exposure in agriculture and malaria control has been linked to neurological problems (for example, Parkinson's disease)[80] and asthma.[81] A 2014 study in JAMA Neurology reported that DDT levels were elevated 3.8 fold in Alzheimer's disease patients compared with healthy controls.[82]

Carcinogenicity
In 2002, the Centers for Disease Control reported that "Overall, in spite of some positive associations for some cancers within certain subgroups of people, there is no clear evidence that exposure to DDT/DDE causes cancer in humans."[1] The NTP classifies it as "reasonably anticipated to be a carcinogen," the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies it as a "possible" human carcinogen, and the EPA classifies DDT, DDE, and DDD as class B2 "probable" carcinogens. These evaluations are based mainly on the results of animal studies.[1][30]

More recent evidence from epidemiological studies indicates that DDT causes cancers of the liver,[30][42] pancreas[30][42] andbreast.[42] There is mixed evidence that it contributes to leukemia,[42] lymphoma[42][83] and testicular cancer.[30][42][84] Other epidemiological studies suggest that DDT/DDE does not cause multiple myeloma,[30] or cancers of the prostate,[30]endometrium,[30][42] rectum,[30][42] lung,[42] bladder,[42] or stomach.[42]

Breast cancer
The question of whether DDT or DDE are risk factors in breast cancer has been repeatedly studied. While individual studies conflict, the most recent reviews of all the evidence conclude that pre-puberty exposure increases the risk of subsequent breast cancer.[42][85] Until recently, almost all studies measured DDT or DDE blood levels at the time of breast cancer diagnosis or after. This study design has been criticized, since the levels at diagnosis do not necessarily correspond to levels when the cancer started.[86] Taken as a whole such studies "do not support the hypothesis that exposure to DDT is an important risk factor for breast cancer."[53] The studies of this design have been extensively reviewed.[30][87][88]

In contrast, a study published in 2007 strongly associated early exposure (the p,p'- isomer) and breast cancer later in life. Unlike previous studies, this prospective cohort study collected blood samples from young mothers in the 1960s while DDT was still in use, and their breast cancer status was then monitored over the years. In addition to suggesting that the p,p'-isomer is the more significant risk factor, the study also suggests that the timing of exposure is critical. For the subset of women born more than 14 years before agricultural use, there was no association between DDT and breast cancer. However, for younger women – exposed earlier in life – the third who were exposed most to p,p'-DDT had a fivefold increase in breast cancer incidence over the least exposed third, after correcting for the protective effect of o,p'-DDT.[53][89][90] These results are supported by animal studies.[42]

 

[SSDD]

Wiki vs all those published studies????...I am laughing out loud at you thunder....you are truly laughable....and pathetic at the same time. Cant say that I really blame you this time....must be disconcerting to have that much blood on your hands.

 

[longknife]

Wiki vs all those published studies????...I am laughing out loud at you thunder....you are truly laughable....and pathetic at the same time. Cant say that I really blame you this time....must be disconcerting to have that much blood on your hands.

So sad that your blindness to your theology of environmentalism forbids you from dealing with FACTS.