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  1. tochatihu

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    Here is a long analysis you might wish to read:

    Everything You Think You Know About Coal in China Is Wrong - Center for American Progress

    hkmb would have better insight than me into its accuracy because he hangs out with the big muckety mucks. Most of whatever is happening is far away from Yunnan province (here). A land of 50% hydroelectric and blue skies most days.

    If it is generally accurate well then there you go. If not, probably feasible to push back starting with the long list of cited material.

    One would bear in mind that the authors have particular points of view:

    Center for American Progress - Wikipedia

    But that is less than a rebuttal in my view.
     
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    china is the best. way better than n.k.
     
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    Any response is better than none at all.
     
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    that's why i reply, i feel bad for you. i only wish i were more literate on the subjects you enjoy.
     
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    Yeah there are too many threads floating around now with last comment by me.

    Talkin' about literate there is a new paper about fungal decay of wood that looks great. Waiting email reply. Just slip it under the paywall guys.
     
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    i would love to audit one of your classes, i might learn a few things.
     
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    The Nature family of journals is very persnickety about copyright. Could point to any number of high power lab websites that host pdfs of all their publications. Except those in Macmillan/Springer/Nature journals
     
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    You would learn to distinguish mouse from lizard poop. "One weird trick..."
     
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    click bait? i know mouse poop, i can't keep them out of the house. gecko's are a different story.
     
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    Lizards don't really pee. They dump excess nitrogen as uric acid crystals which makes a white dot on the poop.

    Mammals don't mess much with uric acid unless something is going wrong. See Dalmatian dogs, or gout.

    Got me worried there chief. There are a few bad things could happen from sweeping up too much mouse poop.
     
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    please enlighten me, i have been doing it for 13 years, not to mention remodeling the whole house 9 years ago, the poop was everywhere. i try to be careful, but am all for more education.
     
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    i have searched everywhere for entry points, no luck. calling pest control, i hope they are more successful.
    it is odd, when you buy mouse traps, the warnings are much simpler than the cdc.

    one morning, i was making breakfast. a sandwich bag with a muffin inside had a hole in it. i thought it was odd, but opened it and put the muffin in the toaster oven. when my wife got up, i told her about the hole. she said, a mouse! i am such a dimwit. fortunately, it's been a few months, i think i'm okay. my wife may disagree.
     
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    yeah, we're not animal people. (the mice being unwelcome guests)
     
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    Without regard to your bird(s) and toxoplasmosis...
    World is a tricky place.
     
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    deer, coyote, fox, groundhogs, weasels, possum, geese, turkeys, rabbits, grey squirrels, red squirrels, chipmunks, moles, cows, horses, living in the country is beautiful, but it ain't always pretty.
     
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    CDC are being pretty dramatic there. But if I am going after mini-poopies in a big way there is going to be an N95 mask involved. Probably wet.
     
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    May look like total goofing off here, but I am grinding through a vast pile of 'new' literature today. Just one title, that I found to be quite creative:

    "Fear of predation alters soil carbon dioxide flux and nitrogen content"
     
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    dr. al demaria, mass dept. of public health recommended a mask and gloves, and disinfectant when cleaning up poop. as of 2012, there was only one case of hantavirus, and it was acquired out of state.
     
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