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Date: February 22, 2017 at 23:22:41
From: Shirley/PA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Southern Ocean plankton faces extinction from global warming: Aussie s |
URL: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-02/23/c_136078758.htm |
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Please read this very carefully; note what this article is saying by not saying it.
Of all the links I've posted on these Boards I don't think any have upset me as much as this one.
Complete quote: "Xinhua 2017-02-23 09:08:41
SYDNEY, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The impact of climate change has made the future of plankton unique to the Southern Ocean uncertain, an Australian study has found.
The research, published by the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) on Thursday, revealed that single-celled phytoplankton in the Southern Ocean, which plays a key role in reducing atmospheric carbon, face extinction.
Stacy Deppeler, a PhD student at IMAS, found that a clear trend of how the phytoplankton is affected by global warming will not be available for decades, by which point it may be too late to save the plankton.
"While a fundamental part of the ecosystem is changing in ways that could have global implications, there's uncertainty about exactly what the changes and their impact will be," Deppeler said in a media release on Thursday.
"It's unlikely that we'll be able to identify clear trends until around 2050, by which time some big changes in phytoplankton communities will probably already have occurred and it will to be too late to consider mitigating them.
"Phytoplankton are important because all marine life in the Southern Ocean rely on them ultimately as a food source."
Deppeler said that the extinction of the phytoplankton would have significant consequences for the Southern Ocean habitat.
"They draw down carbon as they photosynthesize, and capture it in the deep ocean when they sink to the seafloor. The level of atmospheric carbon would be around 50 percent higher without the uptake provided by Southern Ocean phytoplankton," she said.
"Changes to phytoplankton communities therefore could have significant implications for our environment and climate.
"Changes in the ability of phytoplankton to photosynthesize and grow, or changes in the structure of the phytoplankton community from large cells that contain a lot of carbon to smaller cells that don't have so much, will affect the amount of carbon that sinks into the deep ocean.
"But understanding exactly what's happening is difficult due to the complexity of the stressors affecting phytoplankton, the size and regional diversity of the Southern Ocean, and the logistical challenges of conducting research there.
"While the changes in phytoplankton might happen quite quickly they'll take a very long time to reverse."" End quote.
Do you know what this means?
"Significant consequences" doesn't explain anything.
What it means is the food chain would be broken and death would follow on up the food chain.
Then ask yourself if it is just "climate change" that is causing this terrifying "extinction" of the phytoplankton?
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Date: March 01, 2017 at 05:37:28
From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Southern Ocean plankton faces extinction from global warming:... |
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and the krill which feed on the plankton are getting decimated from over fishing....which they are also the core feed at the bottom...every time I see that someone is promoting 'krill oil' I cringe...krill lives matter too!
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Date: February 27, 2017 at 20:55:15
From: Logan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Southern Ocean plankton faces extinction from global warming:... |
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A. Global warming as popularly pushed is a farce/lie.
B. These things are more likely dying from radiation poisoning, but the so called scientists would lose their jobs if the truth were exposed.
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Date: February 23, 2017 at 21:11:16
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Southern Ocean plankton faces extinction from global warming:... |
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Date: February 23, 2017 at 10:00:42
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Southern Ocean plankton faces extinction from global warming:... |
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a really serious development...
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Date: February 23, 2017 at 20:06:18
From: Terra11, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Ocean plankton faces extinction...WevKNOW |
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unless We as a family (meaning the world over) stop harming each
other we(the Human race ) are about 2 steps from Total extinction
between Fukeshima /Gmos /Chemtrails/Disease/ vaccinations /world
depopulation/contaminated water/harp/ CERN etc etc etc we are
pretty much already dead --we just haven't stopped breathing
BUT ---
WE HUMANS HAVE THE POWER TO FIX THIS --IF WE CAN
COME TOGETHER AS ONE FOR THE GOOD OF ALL WE HAVE
THE ABILITY TO HEAL ALL OF THIS --we could do it in a matter of
seconds --Literally --IF WE WOULD ALL AGREE THAT IS WHAT
WE WANT !!!!!No one is going to save us --we have been
systematically stripped of our own ability /our own power --
Human Beings are AWESOME if we only knew who we really are --
we can do anything /fix anything/be anything we just have to join
together in Love --we can heal everything by joining forces --
WEBARE THE SAVIOR WE ARE WAITING FOR ---ALL WE HAVE
TO DO IS KNOW THAT TRUTH!!!!Love and Light terra
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Date: February 25, 2017 at 00:16:43
From: Shirley/PA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Helen Caldicott: Fukushima a diabolical plot for the rest of time...." |
URL: https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/helen-caldicott-the-fukushima-nuclear-meltdown-continues-unabated,10019 |
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Terra11,
It is encouraging and hopeful to believe that as you wrote, "WE HUMANS HAVE THE POWER TO FIX THIS..."
Unfortunately, you may be more correct in a way that you did not intend, when you wrote, "No one is going to save us."
There is no known technology to stop or even contain the radioactive death spell of Fukushima.
It's been happening since March 11, 2011.
We have all gone on with our lives. Among other things our headlines have zeroed in on elections, movie stars, Oscars, governmental disturbances, and other passing events. We go to work, eat, pay our taxes, love our family and watch the Super Bowl.
But in the back ground is an invisible shark just like in the movie "Jaws." We don't hear the music rising in pitch; we don't see it; we don't taste it, we don't smell it. But it is there.
Caldicott understands that It is there.
This article, which I can't get to cut & paste, goes through the death of life in the Pacific and then us. She says, it is "for the rest of time."
Sadly, I am not sure "we" can do anything about it at all.
Shirley
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Date: March 12, 2017 at 20:53:20
From: Chuckles, [DNS_Address]
Subject: The Roy Process/Radiation Contamnation Reversal Technology |
URL: http://nuclearwaste-theroyprocess.blogspot.com/2005/12/to-all-late-dr.html |
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My Wife had a good friend who was a activist over in Marin some years ago who worked hard to stop environmental destruction to the earth. Not too long ago when he moved back to Arizona he was working with Senator John McCain in getting this new technology that reverses radiation preventing contamination. The Govt. didn't want to hear of it and so it never was put to use. Here's a link to the Roy Process. I have other information with documents(online docs) where my wife's friend talks back and forth with Senator McCain in introducing this technology. It's very sad are government has a means in reversing radiation contamination and doesn't use it.
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Date: February 25, 2017 at 01:15:54
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Helen Caldicott: Fukushima a diabolical plot for the rest of... |
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HELEN CALDICOTT: The Fukushima nuclear meltdown continues unabated
Helen Caldicott 13 February 2017, 6:30am
Dr Helen Caldicott, explains recent robot photos taken of Fukushima's Daiichi nuclear reactors: radiation levels have not peaked, but have continued to spill toxic waste into the Pacific Ocean — but it's only now the damage has been photographed.
RECENT reporting of a huge radiation measurement at Unit 2 in the Fukushima Daichi reactor complex does not signify that there is a peak in radiation in the reactor building.
All that it indicates is that, for the first time, the Japanese have been able to measure the intense radiation given off by the molten fuel, as each previous attempt has led to failure because the radiation is so intense the robotic parts were functionally destroyed.
The radiation measurement was 530 sieverts, or 53,000 rems (Roentgen Equivalent for Man). The dose at which half an exposed population would die is 250 to 500 rems, so this is a massive measurement. It is quite likely had the robot been able to penetrate deeper into the inner cavern containing the molten corium, the measurement would have been much greater.
These facts illustrate why it will be almost impossible to “decommission” units 1, 2 and 3 as no human could ever be exposed to such extreme radiation. This fact means that Fukushima Daichi will remain a diabolical blot upon Japan and the world for the rest of time, sitting as it does on active earthquake zones.
Robot image of Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 reactor (Source: tepco.co.jp)
What the photos taken by the robot did reveal was that some of the structural supports of Unit 2 have been damaged. It is also true that all four buildings were structurally damaged by the original earthquake some five years ago and by the subsequent hydrogen explosions so, should there be an earthquake greater than seven on the Richter scale, it is very possible that one or more of these structures could collapse, leading to a massive release of radiation as the building fell on the molten core beneath. But units 1, 2 and 3 also contain cooling pools with very radioactive fuel rods — numbering 392 in Unit 1, 615 in Unit 2, and 566 in Unit 3; if an earthquake were to breach a pool, the gamma rays would be so intense that the site would have to be permanently evacuated. The fuel from Unit 4 and its cooling pool has been removed.
But there is more to fear.
The reactor complex was built adjacent to a mountain range and millions of gallons of water emanate from the mountains daily beneath the reactor complex, causing some of the earth below the reactor buildings to partially liquefy. As the water flows beneath the damaged reactors, it immerses the three molten cores and becomes extremely radioactive as it continues its journey into the adjacent Pacific Ocean.
Six years later, radiation levels at Fukushima are so high not even a robot can survive inside https://t.co/gWuugk2Xqx pic.twitter.com/A7ZB91olvU
— Intl. Business Times (@IBTimes) February 11, 2017
Every day since the accident began, 300 to 400 tons of water has poured into the Pacific where numerous isotopes – including cesium 137, 134, strontium 90, tritium, plutonium, americium and up to 100 more – enter the ocean and bio-concentrate by orders of magnitude at each step of the food chain — algae, crustaceans, little fish, big fish then us.
Fish swim thousands of miles and tuna, salmon and other species found on the American west coast now contain some of these radioactive elements, which are tasteless, odourless and invisible. Entering the human body by ingestion they concentrate in various organs, irradiating adjacent cells for many years. The cancer cycle is initiated by a single mutation in a single regulatory gene in a single cell and the incubation time for cancer is any time from 2 to 90 years. And no cancer defines its origin.
We could be catching radioactive fish in Australia or the fish that are imported could contain radioactive isotopes, but unless they are consistently tested we will never know.
As well as the mountain water reaching the Pacific Ocean, since the accident, TEPCO has daily pumped over 300 tons of sea water into the damaged reactors to keep them cool. It becomes intensely radioactive and is pumped out again and stored in over 1,200 huge storage tanks scattered over the Daichi site. These tanks could not withstand a large earthquake and could rupture releasing their contents into the ocean.
Way back in 2011—
Fukushima meltdown - Caldicott says Japan may become uninhabitable - media silent https://t.co/xobjVo5o2r @IndependentAus
— Michelle Pini (@vmp9) February 14, 2017
But even if that does not happen, TEPCO is rapidly running out of storage space and is trying to convince the local fishermen that it would be okay to empty the tanks into the sea. The Bremsstrahlung radiation like x-rays given off by these tanks is quite high – measuring 10 milirems – presenting a danger to the workers. There are over 4,000 workers on site each day, many recruited by the Yakuza (the Japanese Mafia) and include men who are homeless, drug addicts and those who are mentally unstable.
There’s another problem. Because the molten cores are continuously generating hydrogen, which is explosive, TEPCO has been pumping nitrogen into the reactors to dilute the hydrogen dangers.
Vast areas of Japan are now contaminated, including some areas of Tokyo, which are so radioactive that roadside soil measuring 7,000 becquerels (bc) per kilo would qualify to be buried in a radioactive waste facility in the U.S..
As previously explained, these radioactive elements concentrate in the food chain. The Fukushima Prefecture has always been a food bowl for Japan and, although much of the rice, vegetables and fruit now grown here is radioactive, there is a big push to sell this food both in the Japanese market and overseas. Taiwan has banned the sale of Japanese food, but Australia and the U.S. have not.
Greenpeace reports jump in radioactive contamination in Fukushima waterways | The Japan Times https://t.co/LyiY6HxQp4
— Sally Forsstrom (@MalurusSally) July 23, 2016
Prime Minister Abe recently passed a law that any reporter who told the truth about the situation could be gaoled for ten years. In addition, doctors who tell their patients their disease could be radiation related will not be paid, so there is an immense cover-up in Japan as well as the global media.
The Prefectural Oversite Committee for Fukushima Health is only looking at thyroid cancer among the population and by June 2016, 172 people who were under the age of 18 at the time of the accident have developed, or have suspected, thyroid cancer; the normal incidence in this population is 1 to 2 per million.
However, other cancers and leukemia that are caused by radiation are not being routinely documented, nor are congenital malformations, which were, and are, still rife among the exposed Chernobyl population.
Bottom line, these reactors will never be cleaned up nor decommissioned because such a task is not humanly possible. Hence, they will continue to pour water into the Pacific for the rest of time and threaten Japan and the northern hemisphere with massive releases of radiation should there be another large earthquake.
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Date: February 25, 2017 at 23:26:15
From: Shirley/PA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Thank you.(NT) |
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Date: February 25, 2017 at 00:33:05
From: Shirley/PA, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Jaws (music scene) - Main theme (NT) |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tMqcARKRSE |
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Date: February 23, 2017 at 09:50:35
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Southern Ocean plankton faces extinction from global warming:... |
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Got it.
Thank you Shirley.
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