Thursday, January 20, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Scientists warn California could be struck by winter ‘superstorm’
A group of more than 100 scientists and experts say in a new report that California faces the risk of a massive "superstorm" that could flood a quarter of the state's homes and cause $300 billion to $400 billion in damage. Researchers point out that the potential scale of destruction in this storm scenario is four or five times the amount of damage that could be wrought by a major earthquake.
It sounds like the plot of an apocalyptic action movie, but scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey warned federal and state emergency officials that California's geological history shows such "superstorms" have happened in the past, and should be added to the long list of natural disasters to worry about in the Golden State.
The threat of a cataclysmic California storm has been dormant for the past 150 years. Geological Survey director Marcia K. McNutt told the New York Times that a 300-mile stretch of the Central Valley was inundated from 1861-62. The floods were so bad that the state capital had to be moved to San Francisco, and Governor Leland Stanford had to take a rowboat to his own inauguration, the report notes. Even larger storms happened in past centuries, over the dates 212, 440, 603, 1029, 1418, and 1605, according to geological evidence.
The risk is gathering momentum now, scientists say, due to rising temperatures in the atmosphere, which has generally made weather patterns more volatile.
The scientists built a model that showed a storm could last for more than 40 days and dump 10 feet of water on the state. The storm would be goaded on by an "atmospheric river" that would move water "at the same rate as 50 Mississippis discharging water into the Gulf of Mexico," according to the AP. Winds could reach 125 miles per hour, and landslides could compound the damage, the report notes.
Such a superstorm is hypothetical but not improbable, climate researchers warn. "We think this event happens once every 100 or 200 years or so, which puts it in the same category as our big San Andreas earthquakes," Geological Survey scientist Lucy Jones said in a press release.
Federal and state emergency management officials convened a conference about emergency preparations for possible superstorms last week. You can read the whole report here.
(A 2005 California storm: AP)
How Green is Solar???
Thin Film CdTe under the Spotlight. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
Solar power tops the list of renewable energies in the world, both in installed
capacity and rate of growth. Solar photovoltaic – generating electricity from
sunlight – has been growing the fastest, driven by technological advances that
bring prices down, as much as by government policies such as feed-in tariffs [1]
(World Reached 25 % Renewable Energy Capacity, SiS 49). But how green is solar
energy? A particular worry is the toxicities of metals such as cadmium that goes
into the new thin film PVs.
The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition based in San Jose California in the United
States carried out a survey early in 2010 comparing environmental health and
safety practices, recycling policies and sustainability among 14 major solar
panel manufacturers that represent about a quarter of the global solar panels
market share [2, 3]. German companies scored the highest overall: Calyxo,
Solarworld and Sovello; Yingli in China came fourth. US-based First Solar and
Abound Solar followed. There was no response from several major manufacturers
including Sharp, Miasolé, Best Solar and Solyndra.
The survey also found that:
- Half the companies surveyed supported mandatory take-back and recycling at the
end of the solar panels; life, but many need to start setting aside money for
the programmes
- About two-thirds of the companies surveyed failed to perform life-cycle analysis
of their products
- The risk of chemicals used during solar panel manufacture is not assessed by the
majority of responding manufacturers
It is important to perform life-cycle analysis as well as environmental and
health impacts of renewable energy options, and end of life recycling should be
mandatory, especially for toxic components, such as cadmium or cadmium
telluride.
Life cycle analysis
Researchers led by Vasilis Fthenakis at Columbia University, New York, in the
United States, have been carrying out life-cycle analysis of solar panels ([4]
Solar Power Getting Cleaner Fast, SiS 39). In the most recent comprehensive
update, the analysis start from raw material acquisition, through material
processing, manufacturing, use, decommissioning, treatment/disposal and
recycling, if any, accounting for the material and energy inputs, and waste
effluents to air, water or ground [5].
The material and energy inputs and outputs during life cycles of silicon
photovoltaics (Si PVs) and thin-film cadmium telluride (CdTe) PVs were
investigated in detail based on actual measurements from PV production plants
between 2004 and 2006.
They used the most up-to-date data from researchers on life-cycle inventory
(LCI) for producing crystalline silicon modules in Western Europe under the
framework of the Crystal Clear, a large European Integrated Project focusing on
crystalline silicon technology, co-funded by the European Commission and the
participating countries. The LCI data for CdTe thin-film technology were taken
from the production data of First Solar’s plant in Perrysburg, Ohio, United
States.
The typical thickness of multi- and mono-Si PV is 270–300 mm, and that of
ribbon-Si is 300–330 mm; 72 individual cells of 156 cm2 (125 cm x 125 cm)
comprise a module of
1.25 m2 for all Si-PV types. The conversion efficiency of ribbon-, multi-, and
mono-Si module is 11.5, 13.2, and 14.0 percent, respectively. As of 2006, First
Solar’s 25-MWp plant manufactures frameless, double-glass, CdTe modules of 1.2 m
by 0.6 m rated at 9 percent efficiency with ~3mm thick active layer, a hundredth
the thickness of the silicon PVs.
An important part of the solar panel installation that has not been considered
in previous life-cycle analysis is the ‘balance of system’ (BOS), all components
other than the PV panels needed for supporting the panels and for their
operation.
Silicon modules require an aluminium frame of 3.8 kg/m2 for mounting, while a
glass backing performs the same functions for the CdTe PV. For rooftop PV, the
BOS typically includes inverters, mounting structures, cable and connectors.
Large-scale ground-mounted PVs require additional equipment and facilities, such
as grid connections, office facilities, and concrete. The mass of this was 9 to
10 times the panels for a 3.5 MW installation in Springville, AZ.
Energy payback time and greenhouse emissions
The most frequently measured life-cycle metrics of PV system environmental
analyses are the energy payback time (EPBT) and the greenhouse-gas (GHG)
emissions. EPBT is the period required for a renewable energy system to generate
the same amount of energy that we used to produce the system itself. Calculating
the primary energy equivalent requires knowledge of the country-specific fuels,
feedstock and technologies used to generate energy.
The EPBTs are shown in Figure 1. As can be seen, CdTe PVs have the lowest values
by far, one year in Europe and slightly over one year in the US.
Figure 1 Energy payback time for different solar PVs
The greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions during the lifecycle of a PV system are
estimated as an equivalent of CO2 using an integrated time period of 100 years;
the major emissions included as GHG emissions are CO2 (global warming potential,
GWP = 1), CH4 (GWP = 23), N2O (GWP = 296), and chlorofluorocarbons (GWP =
4600–10 600).
Figure 2 Greenhouse gas emissions for solar PVs compared with some non-
renewable sources
Again, CdTe PVs emissions at 24 g per kWH come out ahead of silicon PVs at 37 gm
per kWh. These are way below those of coal natural gas and petroleum. I have
omitted the GHG emissions of nuclear given in the authors’ graph at 24 g, the
same as CdTe PVs. This value was way below that resulting from a detailed
realistic analysis, which put nuclear GHG emissions at between a minimum of 85 g
and a maximum of 130 g per kWh ([6] The Nuclear Black Hole, SiS 40).
Electricity and fuel use during the PV materials and module production are the
main sources of the GHG emissions for PV lifecycles. Upstream electricity-
generation methods also play an important role in determining the total GHG
emissions. For instance, the GHG emission factor of the average US electricity
grid is 40 percent higher than that of the average Western European (UCTE),
resulting in higher GHG estimates for the US – produced modules. It is clear
that improvements in material and energy use and recycling will enhance the
environmental profiles.
A recent, major improvement is a recycling process for the sawing slurry, the
cutting fluid that is used in the wafer cutting. This recycling process recovers
80–90 percent of the silicon carbide and polyethylene glycol that was previously
wasted, and decreases the EPBTs of these technologies by 10 percent.
Other waste gases were compared. Emissions of NOx and SOx from CdTe PVs at 42
mg/kWh and 79 mg/kWh are about half of those of the silicon modules.
Read the rest of this report on the ISIS website
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/howGreenIsSolar.php
Or read other reports about energy here
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/scienergy.php
Solar power tops the list of renewable energies in the world, both in installed
capacity and rate of growth. Solar photovoltaic – generating electricity from
sunlight – has been growing the fastest, driven by technological advances that
bring prices down, as much as by government policies such as feed-in tariffs [1]
(World Reached 25 % Renewable Energy Capacity, SiS 49). But how green is solar
energy? A particular worry is the toxicities of metals such as cadmium that goes
into the new thin film PVs.
The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition based in San Jose California in the United
States carried out a survey early in 2010 comparing environmental health and
safety practices, recycling policies and sustainability among 14 major solar
panel manufacturers that represent about a quarter of the global solar panels
market share [2, 3]. German companies scored the highest overall: Calyxo,
Solarworld and Sovello; Yingli in China came fourth. US-based First Solar and
Abound Solar followed. There was no response from several major manufacturers
including Sharp, Miasolé, Best Solar and Solyndra.
The survey also found that:
- Half the companies surveyed supported mandatory take-back and recycling at the
end of the solar panels; life, but many need to start setting aside money for
the programmes
- About two-thirds of the companies surveyed failed to perform life-cycle analysis
of their products
- The risk of chemicals used during solar panel manufacture is not assessed by the
majority of responding manufacturers
It is important to perform life-cycle analysis as well as environmental and
health impacts of renewable energy options, and end of life recycling should be
mandatory, especially for toxic components, such as cadmium or cadmium
telluride.
Life cycle analysis
Researchers led by Vasilis Fthenakis at Columbia University, New York, in the
United States, have been carrying out life-cycle analysis of solar panels ([4]
Solar Power Getting Cleaner Fast, SiS 39). In the most recent comprehensive
update, the analysis start from raw material acquisition, through material
processing, manufacturing, use, decommissioning, treatment/disposal and
recycling, if any, accounting for the material and energy inputs, and waste
effluents to air, water or ground [5].
The material and energy inputs and outputs during life cycles of silicon
photovoltaics (Si PVs) and thin-film cadmium telluride (CdTe) PVs were
investigated in detail based on actual measurements from PV production plants
between 2004 and 2006.
They used the most up-to-date data from researchers on life-cycle inventory
(LCI) for producing crystalline silicon modules in Western Europe under the
framework of the Crystal Clear, a large European Integrated Project focusing on
crystalline silicon technology, co-funded by the European Commission and the
participating countries. The LCI data for CdTe thin-film technology were taken
from the production data of First Solar’s plant in Perrysburg, Ohio, United
States.
The typical thickness of multi- and mono-Si PV is 270–300 mm, and that of
ribbon-Si is 300–330 mm; 72 individual cells of 156 cm2 (125 cm x 125 cm)
comprise a module of
1.25 m2 for all Si-PV types. The conversion efficiency of ribbon-, multi-, and
mono-Si module is 11.5, 13.2, and 14.0 percent, respectively. As of 2006, First
Solar’s 25-MWp plant manufactures frameless, double-glass, CdTe modules of 1.2 m
by 0.6 m rated at 9 percent efficiency with ~3mm thick active layer, a hundredth
the thickness of the silicon PVs.
An important part of the solar panel installation that has not been considered
in previous life-cycle analysis is the ‘balance of system’ (BOS), all components
other than the PV panels needed for supporting the panels and for their
operation.
Silicon modules require an aluminium frame of 3.8 kg/m2 for mounting, while a
glass backing performs the same functions for the CdTe PV. For rooftop PV, the
BOS typically includes inverters, mounting structures, cable and connectors.
Large-scale ground-mounted PVs require additional equipment and facilities, such
as grid connections, office facilities, and concrete. The mass of this was 9 to
10 times the panels for a 3.5 MW installation in Springville, AZ.
Energy payback time and greenhouse emissions
The most frequently measured life-cycle metrics of PV system environmental
analyses are the energy payback time (EPBT) and the greenhouse-gas (GHG)
emissions. EPBT is the period required for a renewable energy system to generate
the same amount of energy that we used to produce the system itself. Calculating
the primary energy equivalent requires knowledge of the country-specific fuels,
feedstock and technologies used to generate energy.
The EPBTs are shown in Figure 1. As can be seen, CdTe PVs have the lowest values
by far, one year in Europe and slightly over one year in the US.
Figure 1 Energy payback time for different solar PVs
The greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions during the lifecycle of a PV system are
estimated as an equivalent of CO2 using an integrated time period of 100 years;
the major emissions included as GHG emissions are CO2 (global warming potential,
GWP = 1), CH4 (GWP = 23), N2O (GWP = 296), and chlorofluorocarbons (GWP =
4600–10 600).
Figure 2 Greenhouse gas emissions for solar PVs compared with some non-
renewable sources
Again, CdTe PVs emissions at 24 g per kWH come out ahead of silicon PVs at 37 gm
per kWh. These are way below those of coal natural gas and petroleum. I have
omitted the GHG emissions of nuclear given in the authors’ graph at 24 g, the
same as CdTe PVs. This value was way below that resulting from a detailed
realistic analysis, which put nuclear GHG emissions at between a minimum of 85 g
and a maximum of 130 g per kWh ([6] The Nuclear Black Hole, SiS 40).
Electricity and fuel use during the PV materials and module production are the
main sources of the GHG emissions for PV lifecycles. Upstream electricity-
generation methods also play an important role in determining the total GHG
emissions. For instance, the GHG emission factor of the average US electricity
grid is 40 percent higher than that of the average Western European (UCTE),
resulting in higher GHG estimates for the US – produced modules. It is clear
that improvements in material and energy use and recycling will enhance the
environmental profiles.
A recent, major improvement is a recycling process for the sawing slurry, the
cutting fluid that is used in the wafer cutting. This recycling process recovers
80–90 percent of the silicon carbide and polyethylene glycol that was previously
wasted, and decreases the EPBTs of these technologies by 10 percent.
Other waste gases were compared. Emissions of NOx and SOx from CdTe PVs at 42
mg/kWh and 79 mg/kWh are about half of those of the silicon modules.
Read the rest of this report on the ISIS website
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/howGreenIsSolar.php
Or read other reports about energy here
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/scienergy.php
Killings of newborn babies on the rise in Pakistan
by Hasan Mansoor Hasan Mansoor
KARACHI (AFP) – The lifeless bodies of two tiny babies are being given their final bath before burial in Karachi, after they were left to die in the southern Pakistani city's garbage dumps.
"They can only have been one or two days old," says volunteer worker Mohammad Saleem, pointing at the two small corpses being gently washed by his colleagues at a charity's morgue.
In the conservative Muslim nation, where the birth of children outside of marriage is condemned and adultery is a crime punishable by death under strict interpretations of Islamic law, infanticide is a crime on the rise.
More than 1,000 infants -- most of them girls -- were killed or abandoned to die in Pakistan last year according to conservative estimates by the Edhi Foundation, a charity working to reverse the grim trend.
The infanticide figures are collected only from Pakistan's main cities, leaving out huge swathes of the largely rural nation, and the charity says that in December alone it found 40 dead babies left in garbage dumps and sewers.
The number of dead infants found last year -- 1,210 -- was up from 890 in 2008 and 999 in 2009, says the Edhi Foundation manager in Karachi, Anwar Kazmi.
Tragic tales abound.
Kazmi recounts the discovery of the burnt body of a six-day-old infant who had been strangled. Another child was found on the steps of a mosque having been stoned to death on the orders of an extremist imam who has since disappeared, he says.
"Do not murder, lay them here," reads a sign hanging outside the charity's Karachi base where it has left cradles in the hope that parents will abandon their unwanted children there, instead of leaving them to die.
"People leave these children mostly because they think they are illegitimate, but they are as innocent and loveable as all human beings," says the charity's founder, well-known humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi.
Most children found are less than a week old.
Khair Mohammad, 65, works as a watchman in the charity's vast graveyard in the city outskirts. It is dotted with tiny unnamed graves.
"We acquired this land to bury children after another plot was filled with hundreds of bodies," he says.
The death toll is far worse among girls, says manager Kazmi, with nine out of ten dead babies the charity finds being female.
"The number of infanticides of girls has substantially increased," Kazmi says, a rise attributed to increased poverty across the country.
Girls are seen by many Pakistanis as a greater economic burden as most women are not permitted to work and are considered to be the financial responsibilty of their fathers, and later their husbands.
A Pakistani family can be forced to raise more than one million rupees (11,700 dollars) to marry their daughter off.
Edhi says that up to 200 babies are left in its 400 cradles nationwide each year and that it handles thousands of requests for adoption by childless couples.
Abortion is prohibited in Pakistan, except when the mother's life is at risk from her pregnancy, but advocates say that legalisation would reduce infanticide and save mothers from potentially fatal back-street terminations.
According to Pakistani law, anyone found to have abandoned an infant can be jailed for seven years, while anyone guilty of secretly burying a child can be imprisoned for two years. Murder is punishable with life imprisonment.
But crimes of infanticide are rarely prosecuted.
"The majority of police stations do not register cases of infanticide, let alone launch investigations into them," said lawyer Abdul Rasheed.
KARACHI (AFP) – The lifeless bodies of two tiny babies are being given their final bath before burial in Karachi, after they were left to die in the southern Pakistani city's garbage dumps.
"They can only have been one or two days old," says volunteer worker Mohammad Saleem, pointing at the two small corpses being gently washed by his colleagues at a charity's morgue.
In the conservative Muslim nation, where the birth of children outside of marriage is condemned and adultery is a crime punishable by death under strict interpretations of Islamic law, infanticide is a crime on the rise.
More than 1,000 infants -- most of them girls -- were killed or abandoned to die in Pakistan last year according to conservative estimates by the Edhi Foundation, a charity working to reverse the grim trend.
The infanticide figures are collected only from Pakistan's main cities, leaving out huge swathes of the largely rural nation, and the charity says that in December alone it found 40 dead babies left in garbage dumps and sewers.
The number of dead infants found last year -- 1,210 -- was up from 890 in 2008 and 999 in 2009, says the Edhi Foundation manager in Karachi, Anwar Kazmi.
Tragic tales abound.
Kazmi recounts the discovery of the burnt body of a six-day-old infant who had been strangled. Another child was found on the steps of a mosque having been stoned to death on the orders of an extremist imam who has since disappeared, he says.
"Do not murder, lay them here," reads a sign hanging outside the charity's Karachi base where it has left cradles in the hope that parents will abandon their unwanted children there, instead of leaving them to die.
"People leave these children mostly because they think they are illegitimate, but they are as innocent and loveable as all human beings," says the charity's founder, well-known humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi.
Most children found are less than a week old.
Khair Mohammad, 65, works as a watchman in the charity's vast graveyard in the city outskirts. It is dotted with tiny unnamed graves.
"We acquired this land to bury children after another plot was filled with hundreds of bodies," he says.
The death toll is far worse among girls, says manager Kazmi, with nine out of ten dead babies the charity finds being female.
"The number of infanticides of girls has substantially increased," Kazmi says, a rise attributed to increased poverty across the country.
Girls are seen by many Pakistanis as a greater economic burden as most women are not permitted to work and are considered to be the financial responsibilty of their fathers, and later their husbands.
A Pakistani family can be forced to raise more than one million rupees (11,700 dollars) to marry their daughter off.
Edhi says that up to 200 babies are left in its 400 cradles nationwide each year and that it handles thousands of requests for adoption by childless couples.
Abortion is prohibited in Pakistan, except when the mother's life is at risk from her pregnancy, but advocates say that legalisation would reduce infanticide and save mothers from potentially fatal back-street terminations.
According to Pakistani law, anyone found to have abandoned an infant can be jailed for seven years, while anyone guilty of secretly burying a child can be imprisoned for two years. Murder is punishable with life imprisonment.
But crimes of infanticide are rarely prosecuted.
"The majority of police stations do not register cases of infanticide, let alone launch investigations into them," said lawyer Abdul Rasheed.
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Chemical Skies
(NaturalNews) There has been a controversy over what has been termed chemtrails from high flying aircraft since the 1990's. The controversy has been over their existence or reality, their content and impact on human and plant health if they are real, their purpose if they are real, and the questions of whom or what group is responsible. Regardless of any conspiratorial controversy and the fact that many are not even aware of chemtrails, the health hazards have been discovered.
A contrail is a normal occurrence with high altitude aircraft in cold dry air. It is a trail of jet engine exhaust vapors that have become ice particles, forming a very shiny white, narrow trail. This stream dissipates and completely disappears from view shortly. It usually extends no more than 5 to 10 plane lengths behind the aircraft. Contrails' appearance depend on atmospheric conditions, aircraft altitude, and air temperature.
What has been labeled chemtrails are different in appearance and longevity. They may appear from some aircraft while others are not emitting contrails. Although basically white in color, they are not as shiny or brilliant, more of an off white. Sometimes the sunlight passing through them creates different hues. And they appear to be more dense and much longer. They linger long over longer distances, even hours, after the aircraft has passed overhead, usually expanding laterally and becoming much wider than contrails.
So wide in fact that they often merge and become cloud like. If there are enough chemtrails in the sky, the sky becomes hazy. Sometimes these solid chemtrails can be observed slowly falling toward ground level. And this is how air, water, and soil samples for chemical analysis have been collected. Collecting samples at ground levels is impossible with contrails that evaporate at high altitude.
Since the early to mid 1990's in the USA, there have been reports and photographs of unusual chemtrail patterns from various locations throughout the USA and other world wide geographical locations. When official military or government agencies were queried by alert sky watchers, the explanations, if there was even a response, were quite unsatisfactory.
They were usually told that they were seeing contrails and there was no reason for concern. Sometimes they were told they were seeing evidence of Air Force attempts to stem global warming. These unsatisfactory responses led to sincere efforts of individuals to research on their own and network through the Internet.
You may wish to simply Google chemtrails. Or you can use any of the URL's at the bottom of this article to inspect some of the established citizen journalist and researcher sites that have been tracking the chemtrail subject for several years.
Chemtrail Content Analysis from Different Sources
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the USA has rejected offers to analyze chemtrail samples from Dr. Len Horowitz, while in Northern Idaho, and researcher Clifford Carnicom of Santa Fe, NM. But they and concerned citizens in Las Vegas, NV, Mt. Shasta, CA, and Eastern Arkansas, all managed to get independent laboratory analysis done on samples from soil, water, and the air.
The results were similar with all of them and have been reported to compare with other analysis from North American and European locations. Barium, Aluminum Oxide, Titanium, Magnesium, and BannEthylene dibromide (dibromethane) or EDB are the essential elements of the chemtrail.
Aerosol Barium saltswere sprayed from planes over Panama, Libya, and during Desert Storm to make people sick and weak. Barium poisoning is worse than lead poisoning. The lungs are affected adversely. Many complaints of colds, flu, even pneumonia occur within a very few days after heavy chemtrail spraying over an area.
Aluminumcauses extreme neurological disorders. Dementia, uncontrollable spasms, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's Disease can be caused by long term aluminum exposure. Breathing in those particulates over time is a definite long term hazard.
EDB or dibromethanewas banned in the USA years ago from use in all auto and jet fuels. But somehow it is appearing again in samples from chemtrail residue. It is a major component of insecticides, which are nerve poisons. It affects the nervous system especially where breathing is involved. And it is very carcinogenic.
Keep in mind that these are in tiny particulate form, enabling them to be breathed into our lungs as well as settling into soil and water. Concerned citizens in several areas where heavy chemtrailing has occurred have observed a decline in water quality and erosion of plant life. Over the past few years in the USA, lung disorders have leaped from eighth to fourth as a cause of health issue fatalities.
There are even more unusual biological anomalies being discovered in chemtrail residues as well, such as desiccated blood cells which come to life along with bacterial or viral specimens. Clifford Carnicom has research papers on those. If you can handle scientific details, go to his website, which is listed at the end of this article with other URL's.
Keeping Our Eyes Wide Shut
Many concerned independent journalists and researchers are concerned with the possibilities of sinister motives that are being hidden deliberately. Why would government health and environmental protection agencies refuse to get involved with citizens' chemtrail concerns? Why are different reasons from military groups created to placate those concerns?
In September of 2007, a major German TV outlet spread the news of a large chemtrail spraying occurrence and asked questions. The station's report included a weather forecaster who had observed strange clouds forming rapidly without the usual necessary climatic conditions. Under pressure of public scrutiny, the military there conceded that indeed they were spraying aerosol particulates. But they claimed it was only part of a war game to disrupt radar.
This reason was used in the States as well. The military called it spraying chaff to disrupt radar. But the U.S. observer who had complained to them noted that the spraying had been going on in his area for years. So how come air traffic control radar had not been affected?
The major mainstream media in the USA has ignored the chemtrail issues. Other than websites of alternative news, it has been only a few local media outlets in the U. S. that have featured stories and concerns regarding chemtrail issues. Local newspapers in the Mt. Shasta, CA area, Las Vegas, NV, and TV station KLAS in Louisiana have presented concerns regarding the hazardous materials found in chemtrail samples in those areas.
The Health Issue Remains
Despite all other issues of whom and why, which are beyond the scope of this article, the health issues remain. Health problems, especially lung and neurological, are constantly on the rise in all the areas being heavily chemtrailed. Of course, there are other factors and other health issues as well. But most of those can be avoided by not eating processed and genetically modified foods sprayed with insecticides. Not breathing is difficult. Even here in Central Mexico, a doctor once mentioned that pneumonia cases had spiked radically during and after a recent heavy chemtrailing period.
The fact that chemtrials persist and no one or no agency is coming clean is baffling, and cause for concern. Do your own research to educate yourself using the links or URL's below this article as a primer, ignore the debunkers unless you wish to see how absurd they are, and watch the skies whilekeeping your immune system strong. This involves good supplements, especially those that help remove heavy metals, a low toxin healthy diet, adequate rest, and a positive emotional and spiritual attitude despite all the nonsense and madness in the world. Cheers!
Sources:
www.chemtrailcentrla.com
www.Bariumblues.com
www.carnicom.com
http://j.l.navarro.tripod.com/
http://willthomasonline.net/
Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/026200_health_poisons_chemtrails.html#ixzz1BGTwpLEV
German Scientist Exposes Chemtrails as Military Operations
(NaturalNews) A TV news report from Germany available at: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVc9...) confirmed that the German Military is manipulating the climate in Germany. As a result scientists have filed a lawsuit against the government for climate manipulation.
The video concludes, "We can state with a 97% certainty that we have on our hands chemical trails (chemtrails) comprised by fine dust containing polymers and metals, used to disrupt radar signals."
The purpose of chemtrails, which are well documented over the United State and other parts of the world, according to researchers, is to manipulate the weather. Karsten Brandt, German meteorologist states, "The Federal Army is Manipulating the Meteorological maps."
The disruption of radar signals is the main purpose theorizes Mr. Brandt in the interview. "I was surprised that this artificial cloud was so wide-spread. The radar images are stunning considering the needed tons of dispersed elements - although, the federal army claims that only small amounts of material were propagated. The military heads claim that the substances used are not harmful."
Johannes Remmel, German Green party representative states, "The government must provide explanations to the unsuspecting population." While radar is tracking suspicious aircraft, the Germany Military then uses counterfeit satellite imagery to hide their operations.
In Germany, weather manipulation is prohibited, and I would likewise believe that it is prohibited in the U.S. as well.
Since Chemtrails are so widespread, I would rule out the idea that this is just military performing operations to disrupt radar signals as part of some sort of drill.
The forefront of these operations in the United States appears to be the US Navy, as detailed in "Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism & Toxic Warfare," by Dr. Len Horowitz. Many government watchdogs claim global depopulation, the targeted reduction of the world's population by two-thirds, is secretly the reason behind chemtrail spraying.
An alternative theory to explain Chemtrails, would be that a new weapon related to controlling the weather is being deployed. By creating droughts and thus famines, large populations could be easily controlled or eliminated. Other countries could be easily controlled and brought to their knees by a global power if the weather could be controlled or altered.
For a while I was confused between chemtrails, and contrails. Contrails are the exhaust of an air craft, it leaves a trail in the sky and the trail rapidly dissipates. With chemtrails, they initially look identical to contrails, but rather than the trail dissipating, the trail expands and then starts to look like a cloud. Over the Silicon Valley where I live, I daily witness these chemtrails starting and stopping from airplanes. In other words, the plane has control over the chemicals it is releasing. Also, I have noticed on some days the area is filled with a gray hazy muck, and the mountains almost disappear. This is highly unusual especially when just one day before, the mountains were totally clear.
Part of the undercurrents, at least in the United States, is the concept being marketing through radio, television and schools, that the earth is overpopulated. The idea of overpopulation, as the cause of our problems, was something that I had believed in for a time.
I believed in that idea until I realized the abundance of nature. Just seeing the amount of food produced by one healthy tree, and the millions of acres of unused land in central California, helped me understand Nature's abundance.
The creator did not put humans on earth to suffer, to starve and to die. The creator of life gave us vast resources from which to be healthy. Humans are grossly misusing earth's delicate resources, and thus we have created an experience of lack and deprivation. The lack we experience is not natural, but a reflection of our disconnection from the source of life.
Every action, thought, and feeling has a cause and an effect. Evil never will win, it cannot. But we all need to work together to bring more awareness to the dreaded reality - that our government seems bent on making this planet a military war zone.
I have faith that evil won't win this time.
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The video concludes, "We can state with a 97% certainty that we have on our hands chemical trails (chemtrails) comprised by fine dust containing polymers and metals, used to disrupt radar signals."
The purpose of chemtrails, which are well documented over the United State and other parts of the world, according to researchers, is to manipulate the weather. Karsten Brandt, German meteorologist states, "The Federal Army is Manipulating the Meteorological maps."
The disruption of radar signals is the main purpose theorizes Mr. Brandt in the interview. "I was surprised that this artificial cloud was so wide-spread. The radar images are stunning considering the needed tons of dispersed elements - although, the federal army claims that only small amounts of material were propagated. The military heads claim that the substances used are not harmful."
Johannes Remmel, German Green party representative states, "The government must provide explanations to the unsuspecting population." While radar is tracking suspicious aircraft, the Germany Military then uses counterfeit satellite imagery to hide their operations.
In Germany, weather manipulation is prohibited, and I would likewise believe that it is prohibited in the U.S. as well.
Since Chemtrails are so widespread, I would rule out the idea that this is just military performing operations to disrupt radar signals as part of some sort of drill.
The forefront of these operations in the United States appears to be the US Navy, as detailed in "Death in the Air: Globalism, Terrorism & Toxic Warfare," by Dr. Len Horowitz. Many government watchdogs claim global depopulation, the targeted reduction of the world's population by two-thirds, is secretly the reason behind chemtrail spraying.
An alternative theory to explain Chemtrails, would be that a new weapon related to controlling the weather is being deployed. By creating droughts and thus famines, large populations could be easily controlled or eliminated. Other countries could be easily controlled and brought to their knees by a global power if the weather could be controlled or altered.
For a while I was confused between chemtrails, and contrails. Contrails are the exhaust of an air craft, it leaves a trail in the sky and the trail rapidly dissipates. With chemtrails, they initially look identical to contrails, but rather than the trail dissipating, the trail expands and then starts to look like a cloud. Over the Silicon Valley where I live, I daily witness these chemtrails starting and stopping from airplanes. In other words, the plane has control over the chemicals it is releasing. Also, I have noticed on some days the area is filled with a gray hazy muck, and the mountains almost disappear. This is highly unusual especially when just one day before, the mountains were totally clear.
Part of the undercurrents, at least in the United States, is the concept being marketing through radio, television and schools, that the earth is overpopulated. The idea of overpopulation, as the cause of our problems, was something that I had believed in for a time.
I believed in that idea until I realized the abundance of nature. Just seeing the amount of food produced by one healthy tree, and the millions of acres of unused land in central California, helped me understand Nature's abundance.
The creator did not put humans on earth to suffer, to starve and to die. The creator of life gave us vast resources from which to be healthy. Humans are grossly misusing earth's delicate resources, and thus we have created an experience of lack and deprivation. The lack we experience is not natural, but a reflection of our disconnection from the source of life.
Every action, thought, and feeling has a cause and an effect. Evil never will win, it cannot. But we all need to work together to bring more awareness to the dreaded reality - that our government seems bent on making this planet a military war zone.
I have faith that evil won't win this time.
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Ramiel Nagel is the internationally published author ofCure Tooth DecayandHealing Our ChildrenIn "Cure Tooth Decay" Nagel, reveals how your teeth can heal naturally because they were never designed to decay in the first place! Now there is a natural way to take control of your dental health by changing the food that you eat.Receive 19 free lessons on how to stop cavities"Healing Our Children" explains the true causes of disease conditions of pregnancy and childhood so that you can avoid and prevent them. It provides essential natural health programs so that mothers and their new babies can optimize their health during the times of preconception, pregnancy, lactation and early childhood.
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Thousands of dead birds and fish in Arkansas leave many scratching heads
Mon Jan 3, 12:10 pm ET
By Brett Michael Dykes
Maybe the Mayans were on to something?
That's surely what students of the famed Mayan 2012 prophecy for the end of the world had to be thinking with the news of recent eerie wildlife die-offs in Arkansas. Just as the calendar nudged a year closer to that fateful date, birds began falling from the sky in Arkansas and a massive fish kill occurred some 125 miles to the west.
[Rewind: Mysterious bee deaths explained]
Roughly 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky over a mile of land near Beebe, a small town in northwest Arkansas, and observers spotted the fish kill near the town of Ozark. You can watch a video report on the blackbirds below, courtesy of ABC News:
And here's a CNN report on the incidents:
No one seems to know just yet what caused the two die-offs. But theories abound.
In a statement Saturday morning, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission quoted staff ornithologist Karen Rowe as saying that such events have happened before around the world: "Test results usually were inconclusive, but the birds showed physical trauma and that the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail."
[Rewind: Haunting images of Gulf Coast oil spill]
Because it happened New Year's Eve, some officials suggest that revelers shooting fireworks may have spooked the birds, to the point that they died en masse from stress-induced cardiac arrest.
"It is unlikely they were poisoned," Rowe said, "but a necropsy is the only way to determine if the birds died from trauma or toxin." Tests were to begin Monday.
Click image to see photos of the dead birds
Daily Citizen/Warren Watkins, via AP
Meanwhile, wildlife officials say that the estimated 100,000 drum fish discovered by a tugboat captain over a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River appears to be a natural occurrence that isn't tied to the bird kill in any way.
[Photos: Massive fish kill hits Louisiana]
"The fish kill only affected one species of fish," Keith Stephens of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission told CNN. "If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish." He added that fish kills in the area are common, though this one was larger than most.
UPDATE: A state veterinarian tells NBC that preliminary necropsy results from several birds show that they died of "multiple blunt trauma to their vital organs," though what caused the trauma remains uncertain. According to Dr. George Badley, their stomachs were empty, so they weren't poisoned, and they died in midair, not upon impact with the ground.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110103/ts_yblog_thelookout/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads
By Brett Michael Dykes
Maybe the Mayans were on to something?
That's surely what students of the famed Mayan 2012 prophecy for the end of the world had to be thinking with the news of recent eerie wildlife die-offs in Arkansas. Just as the calendar nudged a year closer to that fateful date, birds began falling from the sky in Arkansas and a massive fish kill occurred some 125 miles to the west.
[Rewind: Mysterious bee deaths explained]
Roughly 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky over a mile of land near Beebe, a small town in northwest Arkansas, and observers spotted the fish kill near the town of Ozark. You can watch a video report on the blackbirds below, courtesy of ABC News:
And here's a CNN report on the incidents:
No one seems to know just yet what caused the two die-offs. But theories abound.
In a statement Saturday morning, the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission quoted staff ornithologist Karen Rowe as saying that such events have happened before around the world: "Test results usually were inconclusive, but the birds showed physical trauma and that the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail."
[Rewind: Haunting images of Gulf Coast oil spill]
Because it happened New Year's Eve, some officials suggest that revelers shooting fireworks may have spooked the birds, to the point that they died en masse from stress-induced cardiac arrest.
"It is unlikely they were poisoned," Rowe said, "but a necropsy is the only way to determine if the birds died from trauma or toxin." Tests were to begin Monday.
Click image to see photos of the dead birds
Daily Citizen/Warren Watkins, via AP
Meanwhile, wildlife officials say that the estimated 100,000 drum fish discovered by a tugboat captain over a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River appears to be a natural occurrence that isn't tied to the bird kill in any way.
[Photos: Massive fish kill hits Louisiana]
"The fish kill only affected one species of fish," Keith Stephens of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission told CNN. "If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish." He added that fish kills in the area are common, though this one was larger than most.
UPDATE: A state veterinarian tells NBC that preliminary necropsy results from several birds show that they died of "multiple blunt trauma to their vital organs," though what caused the trauma remains uncertain. According to Dr. George Badley, their stomachs were empty, so they weren't poisoned, and they died in midair, not upon impact with the ground.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110103/ts_yblog_thelookout/massive-bird-fish-kills-in-arkansas-leave-many-scratching-heads
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