Author: Bégin, Maxime
Publisher: Montréal : Université du Québec à Montréal
ISBN: 9782763841038
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages :
Book Description
Méthylation du mercure dans les sols inondés des réservoirs hydroélectriques de la Baie-James [microforme]
Author: Bégin, Maxime
Publisher: Montréal : Université du Québec à Montréal
ISBN: 9782763841038
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Montréal : Université du Québec à Montréal
ISBN: 9782763841038
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages :
Book Description
Mercury in the Biogeochemical Cycle
Author: Marc Marcotte
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364260160X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Nowadays, major environmental issues are the object of large public debates de spite the fact that scientific knowledge is often insufficient to draw unequivocal conclusions. Such is the case in the ongoing debate regarding the specific contri butions of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and of natural climate changes to global warming. At least 10 to 20 years of additional observations will be re quired, before we will be able to conclude, with certainty, on this subject. In the mean time, and as directed by their immediate interests, people will continue to promote contradictory opinions. The media are, in part, responsible for perpetuat ing such debates in that they convey indiscriminately the opinion of highly credi ble scientists as that of dogmatic researchers, the latter, unfortunately too often expressing working hypotheses as established facts. Naturally, in a similarly mis informed manner, pressure groups tend to support the researcher whose opinions most closely represent either their particular ideological battles or their economic interests and, hence, in their own way, add further to the confusion and obscurity of the debate. Only a few years ago, mercury (Hg)contamination in hydroelectric reservoirs was the object of such media and social biases. At the time, analytical data used to support the discourse were themselves uncertain and numerous hypotheses, often times fanciful, were proposed and hastily "delivered" to the public.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 364260160X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Nowadays, major environmental issues are the object of large public debates de spite the fact that scientific knowledge is often insufficient to draw unequivocal conclusions. Such is the case in the ongoing debate regarding the specific contri butions of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and of natural climate changes to global warming. At least 10 to 20 years of additional observations will be re quired, before we will be able to conclude, with certainty, on this subject. In the mean time, and as directed by their immediate interests, people will continue to promote contradictory opinions. The media are, in part, responsible for perpetuat ing such debates in that they convey indiscriminately the opinion of highly credi ble scientists as that of dogmatic researchers, the latter, unfortunately too often expressing working hypotheses as established facts. Naturally, in a similarly mis informed manner, pressure groups tend to support the researcher whose opinions most closely represent either their particular ideological battles or their economic interests and, hence, in their own way, add further to the confusion and obscurity of the debate. Only a few years ago, mercury (Hg)contamination in hydroelectric reservoirs was the object of such media and social biases. At the time, analytical data used to support the discourse were themselves uncertain and numerous hypotheses, often times fanciful, were proposed and hastily "delivered" to the public.
Le mercure dans l'environnement et les réservoirs hydroélectriques
Author: Alain Tremblay
Publisher: Montréal : Bureau de soutien de l'examen public du projet Grande Baleine
ISBN: 9781895931082
Category : Hydroelectric power plants
Languages : fr
Pages : 177
Book Description
Publisher: Montréal : Bureau de soutien de l'examen public du projet Grande Baleine
ISBN: 9781895931082
Category : Hydroelectric power plants
Languages : fr
Pages : 177
Book Description
Le problème du mercure dans les réservoirs des centrales hydro-électriques et les charges mercurielles prévues chez les poissons dans le cadre du projet Grande Baleine au Québec
Author: Bodaly, R. A. (Richard Andrew)
Publisher: Montréal : Services d'information Vent du Nord
ISBN: 9782921505055
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 15
Book Description
Publisher: Montréal : Services d'information Vent du Nord
ISBN: 9782921505055
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 15
Book Description