The Government Reporting "Quality" on Radiation Testing is Horrifically Deficient, Even High Schools Kids Are Outperforming

There is a current "Unusual Mortality Event" of Whales in Alaska.   The report from NOAA was in a Q&A format, but no mention of where the Q's came from.

Here where I am going with this article.

1)  High school students are doing a much better job of Radiation testing and analysis A.

2) And prior to 2011 there were regular, detailed and pertinent scientific reports on sea life in Alaska with charts and graphs, 10000% better than the drivel that is dribbled out to us now, after Fukushima (an example is below).     

Read on intrepid readers, and then pick up a phone and call your government reps and send them this link, and say why can't we get a report at least as good as a high school student on radiation in sea life 

The total reporting on radiation from NOAA in this UME (Unusual Mortality Event) related to radiation is this:

Q: Is there any link to these large whale deaths to the Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown?
A:  It is highly unlikely. From the one fin whale which was accessible to investigators, muscle samples were sent to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for radionuclide analysis, specifically cesium 134/137.  Preliminary results do not suggest any unusual exposure to human-generated radionuclides, specifically cesium, that would be considered harmful to wildlife.  Further testing is underway.

Source:

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/health/mmume/faqs_2015_large_whale.html 

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So on this never occurred in history here mortality event, NOAA is doing one test, on one element, apparently from 1 piece of muscle undefined, and all we get are preliminary results, with not even a promise that we will be presented with further test results, just that they are doing some further testing, unspecified as to what an time frame.

My take is that they don't even consider that they should have some respect for the little people who are working their tales off to pay the grants that pay these "scientists".

Like the little people here at this high school who put together a far better report using 700 samples and wrote it up in a way that made sense.    Check it out....how come NOAA (see picture of their headquarters at bottom, with their vast resources) how come NOAA can't beat a high school student?

Here is a report chart from the "High School Student"

http://www.metronews.ca/news/calgary/2014/03/24/alberta-students-science-project-finds-high-radiation-levels-in-grocery-store-seafood.html

And here is her whole report which you can view or download if you wish.

Here are some screen caps from an Alaska 2007 report, its high quality and very detailed.    It is unfathomable that they have not repeated this testing.    Methinks they have, but the results would be too disgusting to release.   We need a science whistle-blower, send out those reports to the general public.   We need to know.

here is the report is full, you can review or download as a PDF if you wish

And here is another report detailing Fukushima sea ice theory of dispersion



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Warren of ENENEWS has become expert at digging up people's emails.
Tonight after work, I am going to send each a letter, and ask for a response.

Emails of Scientists referred to in lead articles:

vera.l.trainer@noaa.gov (Dr. Vera Trainer, Research Oceanographer with the Northwest Fisheries Science Center in Washington State)
Teri.Rowles@noaa.gov (Dr. Teri Rowles Coordinator, Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Program (MMHSRP)
National Marine Fisheries Service

paul.cottrell@dfo-mpo.gc.ca (Paul Cottrell, Marine Mammals Coordinator, Pacific Region Fisheries and Oceans Canada)
bree.witteveen@alaska.edu (Bree Witteveen Marine Mammal Specialist. Research Assistant Professor, Univ. of Alaska)

Prof. Kate Wynne
Marine Mammal Specialist
Professor, Univ. of Alaska at Fairbanks.
E-mail: kate.wynne@alaska.edu

$10 Copper Tube Shuts Down Pilgrim Nuclear Plant, 3rd Time This Year for Emergency Shutdown

In terms of "trusting the nuke industry" I think having zero level of trust makes perfect sense.    If your car stalled out 3 times in 8 months, would you consider just getting rid of it.    Pilgrim has had 3 Emergency Shutdowns in 2015 to date. 

Nuclear Corporations are challenged by economics.   They can't afford to shut down their old plants because that is too expensive.    So they keep having emergencies, reactor scrams, when small things happen.

The nuke industry always tells us that they have "defense in depth" but when reality hits we find out these defenses are far weaker than we have been led to believe.

FOR Instance Pilgrim Nuke in Boston, has an ever increasing string of problems and emergencies.   In Jan 2015 they were one step away, one hail Mary away from releasing a massive blast of radiation direct from the reactor vessel.     They had multiple failures, things that had failed just a year earlier and were not properly fixed and tested.  

Last Saturday, Pilgrim shut down again.     Was the problem some hack attempt, a Stuxnet type virus, major crack, giant earthquake, massive human error?

No, the problem was a 1/2" copper tube

I see, so a 1/2 copper tube, similar to what you can buy at Home depot, can shut down an entire nuclear plant?

I see, that must be what they refer to as "defense in depth".

http://www.bostonglobe.com/2015/08/23/pilgrim/167XSkCzXsipC7rRILcV2L/story.html

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A copper tube about a half-inch in diameter, called an air/nitrogen line, broke, triggering the valve closure, said Chip Perkins, a nuclear engineer and the regulatory assurance manager for Entergy. While the repair of the line shouldn’t be that complicated, the plant will do an investigation into what they call “extended circumstances,” followed by other independent investigations.
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This is the 3rd emergency shutdown since Jan 1 of 2015 at Pilgrim.

Stock Weighs in on Polar Ice, Is It Melting Or Not?

It pretty hard to come up with anything positive realted to artic and antartic ice.  

There are satellite views, that can somehow determine if 15% of the water is ice, regardless these show only area.

When thinking about is something melting, we have to consider the energy balance.   Is it gaining or losing energy.    And that is more simple than you think.

It is simply the volume of ice, and the temperature of ice.

But it is not a simple matter to obtain Volume = Area * Depth, and Temperature

But that is what is needed to determine what we want to know.  It appears that all of this is known but it would take some group with some serious geophysical programming skills to do all the calculations.   See the charts below.

Extreme events stick in our minds.   

Katrina --- wow vastly wilder weather.   In reality we are getting some spikier outlier peaks, but overall more consistent weather as shown but the standard deviation decreasing.

2012 Ice Melt in Artic....that was extreme, and everyone with a vested interest jumped on that quicker the the Fonz jumping the shark.   But that was a real extreme, and ice has been bouncing back since then, in the NORTH the Artic.   In the Anti-artic, ice has been increasing like mad, except for just this last month, when it took a nose dive.

Overall, the ice surface area remained around the same, but did depth of ice decrease, did the temperature rise.   Ice is not 32 degF, it can be 20F or 10F or -5F

So here is the go to page if you want to study ice data.   Insist on data, not just what someone else says.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/reference-pages/sea-ice-page/

Japan Sendai Nuclear Restart -- The Hubris Alone Is Killing Me, Let Alone the Volcano and Salt Water Leaks

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/kyushu-delays-increasing-output-sendai-nuclear-plant-cooling-system-problems-detected/#.VddOWJegs8L

I would drop a comment at the link, but I have been banned from Japan Times, so many TIMES that I can't count.    They have no interest in the truth.
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Kyushu Electric checked the water quality and confirmed an increase in salt content.

Each condenser has some 26,000 tubes inside that are used to pipe seawater around for cooling. Kyushu Electric suspects that holes have opened on such tubes, causing seawater to enter into the condenser.

stock here---You know when you have a heat exchanger, and some of the tubes are already leaking....well 20,000 other tubes are also real close to leaking.    Think San Onofre.   But they say they can "fix it" within a week without shutting down.    Sounds odd to me.     Seems like the real story is the powers that be have decided that hell or high water (Volcanoes, Tsunamis, and Salt Leak damned) they are going to not let that plant shut down or they will lose face.    

And this is very dangerous way to think.   Perhaps they have 2 sets of heat exchangers, so they can run at 50% whilst one set is completely shut down and worked on.    Regardless, this is a stop gap measure, just like at San Onofre if some tubes are already going, there are many more right behind it.  So these stories will slip out at the weeks go on.  

Heat exchangers that can handle salt water are going to be stainless steel at least and ideally titanium. Industry has gotten a lot better at working with titanium in the last few decades.     So those 40 year old heat exchangers at Sendai are probably stainless steel, not at good as titanium. 

But in Typical japan Times Fashion, they try to downplay the incident by stating

In Japan, similar problems have occurred about 50 times in the past, but the latest case was the first at the Sendai power plant. In the past, Kyushu Electric experienced two cases at the No. 1 reactor at its Genkai plant in Saga Prefecture in 1997 and 1999.

Classic "don't worry" it happens all the time.   So the pimps of nuke will  do anything to keep this plant running.    Including putting your life and livelihood at risk.  

Now about that little active "Volcano Thing"
In another story
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/08/21/national/caution-urged-over-mount-sakurajima-volcano-as-another-eruption-observed/#.VddVSZegs8I

For safety reasons, the city government suspended a tour bus service in Sakurajima and canceled a fireworks display and a children’s soccer tournament.

 Ya der eh!? But we gots to keep that there nuke plant running, ramp it up!LOL Japan Times, a Media outlet captured by the powers that be, how sad.

And now an interesting article from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, describing the reality of why the Sendai plant was restarted.  

the article give the supposed reasons for restart, and then the real reasons for restart.     Very interesting discussion, the pronukers are on the attacking defensive side on this article by BAS.

http://thebulletin.org/why-was-sendai-nuclear-power-plant-restarted8644

Tree Huggers, Looking for Trees to Hug, A Detailed Comment from Zerohedge

I don't normally just post other people's comments in their entirety, but this one at Zerohedge was a pretty good effort for just a comment.    He is a tree guy, and he is watching them die in otherwise pristine areas.

It would be great is people could provide photos, and if you send them I will add them to the post.   But I did find some news items that confirms what he says, from 2009, I wonder where we have gone in 6 years?    I was up around 7000 feet in Bear Valley California 2 years ago and spent 4 days hiking around the woods.   They looked fine to me, not having been there before.

stock out.
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Posted on an article about Global Warming, 
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-08-20/july-was-warmest-month-record-noaa-reports-lists-all-signifiicant-climate-anomalies-

skepsis101

I guess I am a bonafide tree hugger.  I love trees.  I could not live without trees.  Everywhere I have moved (too many peregrinations) I have planted trees.  Lots of trees.  Fruit trees, fir trees, deciduous trees . . . may the gods bless all the trees.  I cannot even imagine a world without trees.  Never there was a symbol (the foundation of human communication) more apt than the Tree of Life.   Uncounted numbers of human cultures have found awe and wonder in the meaning of trees.  The Baobob, the Cypress, the mighty Oak, the towering Redwood; different peoples, different continents, different cultures, all revered trees.

Do I call BS on global warming?   Should I call BS on global warming?  I submit that not one ZH'er here can definitively state (as our meager lives are far too short a measuring stick), what truly is a trend vs. what is a cyclic variation.

So if I cannot say nor convince you that the planet is warming (whether human assisted or not), can you say it is not?   I say, perhaps we should ask a tree.

I live high in the Rocky Mountains of southern Colorado, over 9,000.  When I first hiked these mountains, 50 years ago, it was nearly impossible to find a dead or dying tree anywhere at any altitude.  Of course they had to exist, dead trees.  Nothing lives forever.  And one always did come across the lone snag perched on a rock face too far, or a lightening cleft trunk, a rotting monster that had seen too many years, or bleached carcasses washed up along a riverbank.  Of course, trees did die.  Have to die.  But the forests, whether alpine, desert, coastal, or plains always had a habit of such living vitality that they seemed to hide their own.  It's the vibrant breathing living trees that one sees and experiences.  A dead tree was a rare counterpoint.

Sometime, around the turn of the millenium that experience began to change.  When you're riding a horse on a high and narrow rocky trail at 10,000 feet up, a dead tree across your path is more than a nuisance.  It can be dangerous.  Extensive deadfall, like in a vicious windstorm can be downright scary, and make you wish you had a mule under your saddle instead.  Except that rarity suddenly became more common.  For fifteen years now I have watched the once grand and green forest canopy of these incomparable mountains whither into naked twisted matchsticks.  What began slowly, barely noticeable, turned into all encompassing devastation in the last five years. Like collapsed tinker toys all akimbo, an eeriy scene right out of Cormac McCarthy's novel, "The Road".
Everything is dying.  Humongous douglas fir, ponderosa pine, blue spruce, aspen, and down lower even juniper and pinyon.  No longer just a tree here and there, but rather entire forests are utterly dead.  You climb up to Wolf Creek Pass over 11,000' high, the finest and greatest powder snow in the lower 48, and glass the landscape for 360 degrees, and you will not find one living tree.  Millions upon millions of dead trees as far as the eye can see.  You can drive for a hundred miles north to Gunnison and all you will see are dead forests, 100% dead.

Not dying, not browning, . . . just extinguished.
My little rancho is heavily treed but interspersed with alpine meadows.  It's kind of a "Sound of Music" like atmosphere.  The beauty is breathtaking.  I smart at how lucky I am.  Never had to cut down a tree in the first twenty years, but I'm kept real busy these days, too much work for an old man.  Cutting trees.  At first it was a just couple here and there along the drive up to the house.  You call up the neighbors for free firewood.  But then it became more of a chore.  And a hazard (my granddad's ranch house was burned down twice in early California, so I know what loss is).  A lightening strike two years ago just one short canyon over the eastern horizon smoldered for two weeks before a good gust of wind came up.  Six days later 130,000 acres of some the prettiest forest in the entire country was nothing but char and ash.  So now i've timbered my 1,500th tree this week and I cannot keep up.

Once I figured out what was going on I started to pay more attention.  In northern New Mexico I've noticed entire mountainsides of pinyon, one of the hardiest species out there, go brown.  Around Flagstaff in Arizona I've watched achingly as vast expanses of the Ponderosa belt rain down dead needles all the way to the Grand Canyon fifty miles to the north.  In the deserts of central Arizona stands of Palo Verde and even groups of healthy Saguaro, have begun to shrivel.  Driving along the southern coast of California last year, where my granddad homesteaded 1898, even the ubiquitous oaks were leafless and defenseless.   Hell, then just a long ugly drive across Los Angeles on every single block, in every city and neighborhood, you'd see lined up dead and dying trees.  Alberta and British Columbia, Alaska and the Yukon . . . all the way down the spine of the North America all manner of trees right down to my property are falling like flys. Billions and billions of flys.

I asked the silviculturists at the local Forest Service office if they have any historical records, or prehistoricall data, that can put what I see in perspective.  You do not want to know what they said, other than yes, a big change is coming.  And don't give me any malarkey about it's just the beetles, or a normal cycle, or some other nonsense.   Yeah, beetles are affected by the weather.  But that's the point, isn't it?  Cycles come and go, don't they?  Yes they do, but I doubt you all are prepared for this one.  After all, dinosaurs were part of a cycle too.  This is continental ecotonal change.  Is it climate change?  Is it Anthropogenic Global Warming?  Or is it the U.N.?  Or Agenda 21? Or actually Goldman Sachs, or George Soros, or carbon credits, or the Maunder Minimum that's at fault.  Hell, I'm no genius.  I don't know what it is.

But perhaps all you geniuses, instead of mouthing off about stuff you know nothing about, should just go ask a tree, while you still can! Fuck you all.  I'd take a tree over a human any day.
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Dr. Goodheart Weighs in with his own article

Mass Die Off Of Forests Happening Globally And Accelerating Death Rate Of Trees Is Increasing
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2015/06/mass-die-off-of-forests-happening.html

Escape from Fukushima? Offer of Free Dwelling Unit in North Carolina

A lady in North Carolina has made a very generous offer to help a person or family get out of contaminated areas of Japan.     I'll add more details as they come in and as questions arise.

The property is in Marion, North Carolina.    The deal is "Stay for Free, Grow your own healthy food for free, and maybe help get the farmhouse into shape."

Best way to inquire is to email me at the start, and then I will put in touch with the Owners. 

stock@hawaii.rr.com

The "home" is called an RV, a Recreational Vehicle.

New information just came in

There is a double bed ...maybe a queen....and little love seat could sleep a small one.....could be tight though.... 3? Maybe at most...

Well (spring) water out there...some of the purest in the country.  Farmhouse has septic tank  The RV is connected to the farmhouse for water.  There's air-con and heat.  Electric is on.  Yes the tenants would pay electric, its about  $50/month now, so anything over $50 that would be fine....   I do not currently have internet service, but they could order it of course and cable.  I think the RV has a holding tank for sewage so I guess it has to be cleaned out every so often,,right?    I'm ready to plow about half acre for alfalfa so if they can use it too for anything they like!  We also have truckloads of toilet paper, paper towels, soap, necessities etc.

 

Carol Ann says====

This RV is small but I've always read that the Japanese don't have those big

expansive places like we spoiled Americans do!  

Property is a work in progress but very peaceful out there!  I wish our adjoining farmhouse was finished, but it is gutted on the inside.

RV has heat, air-conditioning, etc. + linens and fully equipped kitchen.

The "Tenant" is free to use the yard, orchard, and massive garden.

There are 91 blueberries, apple orchard, pears, peaches, apricots and a big line of plum trees going down to the creek.  The actual garden plot is prob. 1/4 acre and we have tractors.  They are welcome to help themselves and/or grow!!  

There is a farmhouse seen in the pictures, that is gutted right now.    A perfect tenant would also have some handy man skills and if they wanted to work it into the deal, the owners wouldn't mind help with getting the farmhouse into useable condition.

  

Carol Ann says.....The RV is dusty but I will have it cleaned

spic and span.....  been sitting empty for about a yr. now