Cities are Heat Islands, That Increases The Reported Temperatures, And Has To Be Calculated in the Global Warming Debate

From the UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Highlights

• Urban heat island (UHI) intensities were estimated for the fifty most populous cities in the USA using PRISM climate data.
• The urban morphologies of the cities were quantified using spatial metrics and the NLCD 2006 land use/land cover dataset.
• The statistical analyses suggested that highly contiguous dense and sprawling urban development both enhance the UHI effect.
• City contiguity should be considered when devising strategies for UHI intensity mitigation.
• More discontiguous city configurations, especially if achieved by introducing urban green spaces, will likely reduce UHIs.

 http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/09/18/the-urban-heat-island-uhi-is-mapped-in-major-u-s-cities/

September 23 Asteroid Attack? Sign Up For Email Alerts! Really

There is a new telescope system in Hawaii launched in 2015 that is specially set to scan for these type of space rocks.

ATLAS can provide one day's warning for a 30-kiloton "town killer," a week for a 5-megaton "city killer," and three weeks for a 100-megaton "county killer".

 http://www.fallingstar.com/home.php

I suggest that you sign up for alerts, directly from the astronomers.

Also, here is my really cool Asteroid Mass and Energy Calculator, as a download

https://app.box.com/s/ocdlggvieo93cxmw304i 

Using the NASA NEO list you can see a 53 Meter object flew by Sept 15, 2015 at 8500 m/s and less than 3 lunar distances from the earth.    

Using my Asteroid calculator above, it would have had the energy impact of 13 atomic bombs.

Elon Musk ain't that smart.    If he wants to terraform Mars, you need to send comets, not atom bombs, duh!

For the sake of completeness, we include the NASA Near Earth Object Program

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2015rp82.html




http://magneticreversal.org/

Fukushima - Glowing Blue Cucumbers Is Not A Good Sign, and Blue Pigs

In Japan, they call cucumbers "Curies"

Which is amazingly prophetic given this picture of a Glowing Blue Curie

The picture is from Fukushima Diary, which has a chat room too.   In that chat room I also saw a statement of the nuclear industry spending $1.4B annually in "communication" aka propaganda.   I asked the NEI for their audited financials, and they sent me a tax return.    Just that one organization spend $99M a year promoting nuclear.  I'll do a new article on this.

Strontium has a blue color to its emissions.   Strontium is red in a flame test, and the non radioactive type of Sr is used in fireworks to make a red color.

http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/cucumber-found-glowing-blue-near-fukushima-photos/#sthash.ShOSt2pu.dpuf

This wild pig is not from Fukushima, it is from Morgan Hills California.
Pigs forage the forest floor, right where radionuclides congregate and bio accumulate.

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wild-pig-stained-blue-inside#sthash.ShOSt2pu.dpuf

This is the original post of the pig, with comments
http://imgur.com/gallery/YTIx8?third_party=1

Scientific Proof That Fukushima Spent Fuel Pool at Reactor 4 Went Up In Smoke - The Smoking Gun

stock here: We knew this happened, and yet somehow they removed the rods in an elaborate setup.
Now about the "side melt out"........

And that's about all I have to say about that.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22236558

It is shown which information can be extracted from the monitoring of radionuclides emitted from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and transported to Europe. In this part the focus will be on the analysis of the concentration ratios. While (131)I, (134)Cs and (137)Cs were reported by most stations, other detected radionuclides, reported by some, are (95)Nb, (129m)Te, (132)Te, (132)I, (136)Cs and (140)La. From their activity ratios a mean burn-up of 26.7 GWd/t of the fuel from which they originated is estimated. Based on these data, inventories of radionuclides present at the time of the accident are calculated. The caesium activity ratios indicate emissions from the core of unit 4 which had been unloaded into the fuel storage pool prior to the accident.

From a reader comment

http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/cucumber-found-glowing-blue-near-fukushima-photos/#sthash.0KH54wDw.dpuf

 http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/cucumber-found-glowing-blue-near-fukushima-photos/

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wild-pig-stained-blue-inside#sthash.ShOSt2pu.dpuf

 http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wild-pig-stained-blue-inside

http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/cucumber-found-glowing-blue-near-fukushima-photos/#sthash.ShOSt2pu.dpuf

http://fukushima-diary.com/2014/08/cucumber-found-glowing-blue-near-fukushima-photos/#sthash.0KH54wDw.dpuf

Contact Olympic Athletes and Warn Them of Radiation Danger

irhologram
 

September 15, 2015 at 4:40 pm · Reply

 

Stock. I was blown away when you posted this a few days ago. Here's another suggestion for a video. I was able to access athletes' forums to potential 2020 Olympic participants. I believe this catelogue of links needs to. be cleaned up…just a bit to make it error-free (I.e. Spacing…just small things…plus it needs to be free of snide-ness in comments…the point can be made as a more objectively believable comment.)…

And then this list needs to be e-mailed to each of the athletes…also with a heads-up phone call where possible…

and a request for their subsequent comments after opening links, perhaps using Skype interviews.
Questions to ask them are obvious.

5274 views on the 61 page compilation by Kelly Ann Tomas detailing the stories of the Death of the Pacific.

Spread the word far and wide….this should be 1 million views!

Can someone make it into a youtube video?!??!!?!?!?!?!?
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/09/61-pages-of-stories-of-death-of-pacific.html

Additional Research on 550 Times Increase in Thyroid Cancer in Fukushima Area

Here is the findings of a "control study" of children away from Fukushima using ultrasound to detect thyroid anomalies (cysts and nodules, cysts are softer and more fluid, modules are harder and more likely to be able to be felt).

Here is a link to that study
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep09046?message-global=remove

They picked 3 cities for this "control group". 

1) Nagasaki: previously bombed by an atomic bomb
2) Yamanishi: Listed as heavily contaminated by the Japanese government
3) Aomori: Just north of Fukushima, many articles on severe contamination from Fukushima.

They tested around 4500 children, but DID NOT provide the overall test results.    I have asked the author for the full results, we will see.

One of the cities had been bombed by an atomic bomb, and we know that genetic problems created by radiation do get passed on down the generations.

Another was Yamanishi, an area just on the other side of Tokyo.    It would have been far better to pick a spot further removed.    Yamanishi was a site published November 12, 2011 by the Japanese governement of having extensive radiation contamination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_from_the_Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster

Cesium-134 and Cesium-137 soil contamination map

On 12 November the Japanese government published a contamination map compiled by helicopter. This map covered a much wider area than before. Six new prefectures Iwate, Yamanashi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Gifu, and Toyama were included in this new map of the soil radioactivity of cesium-134 and cesium-137 in Japan. Contamination between 30,000 and 100,000 becquerels per square meter was found in Ichinoseki and Oshu (prefecture Iwate), in Saku, Karuizawa and Sakuho (prefecture Nagano, in Tabayama (prefecture Yamanashi) and elsewhere.^[227]

Finally they picked Aomori, also quite close to Fukushima and numerous articles about Aomori being heavily contaminated by Fukushima.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201211210054


A variety of mushroom called "sakura shimeji" picked in Aomori city was also found to be slightly in excess of legal standards in October. All fungi picked in Aomori city disappeared from store shelves after the prefectural government issued instructions to halt shipments.

Nuclear is Dying, Solar is Flying

A number of really excellent commentors have joined the discussion about nuclear.

The paid pro nuke trolls (nuke industry dedicates $1.4B this year for "communication") put up inane comments, and then good people tear them apart.

And the pronukers have a Kumbaya team that goes around and up votes them.   Sheesh.

troll says

Michael Mann Renewable Search • a day ago

So far, nuclear energy has been the fastest, most efficient way to displace fossil fuels.

waddawadda says

You keep saying that as if repeating it would make it true. Show some references.

Do you even know what solar and wind growth rates are?

Both wind and solar have growth rates far above nuclear for periods of a decade or more. Nuclear never grew at more than mid to low teens for a decade globally, but both wind and solar grew in the 20 plus percent compound annual growth.
But lets just look at what renewables have done since 2000 vs nuclear.

 http://energeia.voila.net/elec...

2000 : nuclear 2640 TWh / renewables 2860 TWh
2011 : nuclear 2520 TWh / renewables 4540 TWh
2018 : nuclear 2900 TWh / renewables 6850 TWh
Source : IAEA and IEA

California Wildfires and the Lies Related to Climate Change / Warming

Yes, we can have climate change, and there is evidence of changing ocean currents, for sure.    But the lie of Global Warming has been going on for 2 decades now.    And they are desperate to bring it to it's conclusion before the wizard is exposed.

The lie of Global Warming has 2 main purposes
1) Transfer of wealth to the already wealthy
2) Implementation of a central control over world governments.    The early roll out of the "new World Order" by Soros met with massive opposition, so instead of calling it that, they (the super rich, Bilderberg and Rothschild types) seek control via law regarding "environment" and "fair trade".

By controlling these main factors of life, they will effectively have massive control over the whole world.    Environment basically morphs into ANYTHING to do with energy.   Wars are fought over energy, it is very important.   And fair trade morphes into just about anything.

A stunning example that combines both just occurred.     India announced that they were going to ramp up their countries solar factories and build out Gigawatts of solar PV.   An international trade organization prevented them from doing so, under the guise of "you have to buy our solar panels and at least give us a fair shot"

This is nothing short of insane for the overall good of the world, but the sociopaths that be care nothing of the little people and their struggles.   As long as not too many slaves die off, the PTB won't even notice a problem. 

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On the other hand.....he who evacuates first evacuates best.    

I never procrastinate when it comes to putting things off, but when the time for action is here, get moving!


http://www.livescience.com/52164-firestorm-mass-destruction-california.html?cmpid=NL_LS_weekly_2015-09-14

The catastrophic wildfires burning in California, which killed at least one person over the weekend and injured several others, are being fueled by high temperatures, strong winds and years of withering drought influenced by climate change.

The Valley Fire ignited in drought-stricken Northern California early Saturday afternoon, destroying more than 400 homes and scorching 50,000 acres — an area more than twice the size of Manhattan — within about 12 hours.

The Playbook of the Dying Nuclear Cartel _Top Three Lies

This is from nuclear-news, an awesome web site

http://nuclear-news.net/

Towards Paris Climate Conference – examining “new nuclear technology” – theme for September 15

Over the next 3 months, the nuclear lobby’s focus will be on 3 major lies –

1. the lie about Gen IV reactors, esp thorium and Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) solving nuclear wastes,

2. the lie about “harmless” low dose ionising radiation,

3. the lie about nuclear solving climate change.

The nuclear lobby’s goal is to resuscitate their dying industry – to create a new nuclear renaissance.

For September, we focus on Nuclear Lie No. 1 – “New Gen IV reactors, esp thorium and Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) WILL SOLVE THE NUCLEAR WASTE PROBLEM.”

That lie is terribly important, because new nuclear power cannot go ahead until they have convinced the world that radioactive trash is a”resource” not the garbage that it really is.

“Generation IV” nuclear reactors do not exist. The dream of Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors remains a mirage. The Small Modular Nuclear Reactor has been shown to be uneconomic (has to be ordered en masse , has to be funded by taxpayers), vulnerable to terrorism, and wouldn’t be ready for decades.

All of them still leave toxic wastes – smaller amounts, but so toxic and long-lasting that they require the same volume of deep burial space as the wastes that they purport to remove.

That hasn’t stopped the nuclear enthusiasts from conning governments for funding, and in the UK, even getting themselves classed as charities.....

Read the whole story at
http://nuclear-news.net/

How Many Items Would Have to Line Up all TRUE to Get Us to Say--Yes More Nuclear

1. IF "climate change" is something we can affect and not just a natural cycle that we cannot effect
   and
2. IF CO2 at levels around 400 still functions as a greenhouse gas, and not as shown by studies that at a certain level it becomes warming neutral and
3. If we believed that nuclear was "low carbon" throughout its whole cycle and 
4. IF nuclear could be built fast enough to make a difference and 
5. IF we could afford the extra costs that new nuclear now requires, as opposed to using money in better ways for solar research and implementation and the like

If all of these were true, and we could solve climate change with nuclear, wouldn't we still be totally bat shite crazy to accept nuclear if it could kill countries and destroy the human genome.

If even one of those 5 is not fully true, then the argument never even gets started.

But the conclusion is still the same in all cases.

 Nuclear is too dangerous for humans.

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Potassium

k40

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• stock

  September 14, 2015 at 1:32 pm · Reply

  I have been highly productive while ignoring the K40 debate (debacle)
  Let me sum up some facts:
  There has always been a lot of K40 in the ocean, it comes from rocks, 11,800 Bq/m3, or 11.8 Bq/Liter
  There is nearly zero "man made" K40, like .0000000000000000000000000001 percent from nuclear reactions or bombs. When atoms go into fission, they break apart in known percentages but roughly the same size and this can be easily visualized by the double hump chart. K40 is not an option, although once in a great rare while, crazy stuff does happen and every element under the sun could be a result BUT to .000000000000000000000000000001 percent. See the chart here:
  http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/09/radiation-education-how-fission-works.html
  So man made radioactive K40 is almost nothing.
  True that in a neutron bombardment, some K40 might be created but only when K is present, so not in a reactor, but only in case of bombs. And just because a neutron occurs and K is nearby, does not mean that the neutron will be captured and a K40 will result. Regardless, I expect this amount to be quite small in relation to all the K in the world.
  Finally, lets not call this "man made" but man released, K40 from burning coal. Maybe something like 40 Bq/kG released from coal….as if we need another reason to hate coal.
  PPS If I had to make a snap decision, say Codeshutdown had a magical K40 removing frequency generator, and offered to remove all…
  
  

  
  Report comment
  
  

  • stock

    September 14, 2015 at 1:37 pm · Reply

    I would have to turn down the offer, unless I was given time to do some serious research. I have not seen any links which address any type of test like this.
    OK and one more. This silliness about biological half life of Potassium…..it is several hours for the body to rid itself of excess K of any type.
    Not weeks. Weeks would represent the Bio HL of any particular specific set of atoms of K40, but for the K40 as a group, its just hours.
    OK back to productive work LOL
    •   CodeShutdown

      September 14, 2015 at 2:18 pm · Reply

      excellent, thanks stock
      I never meant the subject to explode like it did
      
      
      GOM
      

      September 14, 2015 at 2:52 pm · Reply

      Code
      I'm starting to see a bigger picture here..
      • • CodeShutdown

          September 14, 2015 at 3:14 pm · Reply

          GOM, OMG! GOM is GMO MOG! (Ministry of Oil and Gas, Mobile Olefin to Gas)
          Beginning to see the bigger picture eh? Dont let the light in all at once
          
          

      • PavewayIII

        September 14, 2015 at 7:10 pm · Reply

        Not so fast, you guys. I have 65 posts with many irrelevant links planned that will attempt (but fail) prove some peripheral fact that has nothing to with the point you're trying to make. Don't try to stop me, you pro-nuke shills!
        
        

        • CodeShutdown

          September 14, 2015 at 7:35 pm · Reply

          PavewayIII, glad youre still around. I was going to ask you what happens, if anything, to the other potassium isotopes when the beta (and or gamma) from k-40 is absorbed? The self absorption phenomena. I guess most of the radiation is absorbed in a few millimeters meaning the measurement of this radiation from a body would depend on the volume to surface ratio. Also, is water with potassium in it better at absorbing K-40 radiation than pure water?
          
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Here are some comments from "BasM" who has been effectively slapping back at pro nuke trolls and not letting them slide in their easy lies on various discussion boards.

A remarkable lack of vision: Only the past can determine the future.
No progress if that would have been the guidance of our ancestors!
You even forgot that those early NPP's were very unsafe.
The policy change of Sweden and France, away from nuclear, shows that both countries realized that they were on the wrong path with nuclear:
- Sweden decided for a ban on new nuclear and to expand renewable.
Not strange considering the damaging effects of NPP's on the genes of our next generations: http://www.helmholtz-muenchen....

- France installed recently a law to implement a reduction of the nuclear share in its electricity supply from ~75% toward <50% within 10years!
Replacing it with more renewable. http://oilprice.com/Alternativ...
 
A much faster demolition of nuclear than the German Energiewende scenario!
Also motivated since it is shown that such nuclear waste storages damage the genes of newborn within a radius of ~50km in their surrounding: http://www.helmholtz-muenchen.....

Recent French governmental scenario study concluded that migrating towards 80% renewable in 2050 would be cheapest! Such result could be predicted considering earlier publications such as: http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...

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Horrible News, The Oversight On the NRC Wants the NRC To Do Even Less

“The NRC's reputation as the gold-standard nuclear regulator was established over the 40 years since its creation in 1975,” Whitfield said. “However, proposed regulatory actions have threatened to deviate from the commission's stated principles, diminishing the commission’s credibility. In fact, (Energy and Commerce Committee) Chairman (Fred) Upton (R-MI) and I sent a letter expressing our concerns with the use of qualitative factors by the NRC to justify rulemakings. I’m hopeful the NRC will work to improve the organization's efficiency.”

During the hearing, legislators stressed the need for sound regulatory policies and outlined concerns with the increasing price of regulatory compliance associated with NRC rulemaking and activity.

“Nuclear power generation faces strong economic challenges, from low-cost natural gas to minimal growth in electricity demand,” John Shimkus (R-IL), chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, said. “On top of that, regulatory costs have doubled over the last decade, and I’m concerned that these increased compliance costs will further harm vital, but economically distressed, nuclear power plants. I’m hopeful the commission will take actions to limit the cumulative effects of regulation in cases where there is little to no additional safety benefit. The nuclear industry needs certainty from a reliable and efficient regulator.”


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The bodes horribly for our safety in the USA

http://riponadvance.com/stories/510637785-joint-house-hearing-examines-nuclear-regulatory-commission-oversight

Looking for 2 volunteers to Be On the Front Line of Anti-Nuclear Activism in Chicago. Shut Down Palisades.

Jan Boudart, Rogers Park, Chicago has started a program of directly meeting with Aldermen and discussing the need to get Palisades closed!

Palisades is one of the worst nuclear plants in the USA.     It is past its design life, and has regular leaks of radiation into Lake Michigan.    

Palisades is run by Entergy, they have a record of running old plants and running them poorly.   Its 43 years old.   Entergy bought it for$380M in 2006.    For reference, new nuclear at Vogtle is going to cost $18B or more.

Let's say a new car was $30,000, the proportion that Palisades would sell at is $633 for the Clunker Car.     I think that says a lot.    

It was built by Combustion Engineering

It has a sketchy history of operation, with a horrible lifetime load factor of 67.7%

On top of that, Palisades has an EMBRITTLED reactor vessel.    Some have estimated that in an accident not even as bad as Fukushima, up to $600B of damage in direct economic costs.

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If you are in the Chicago area and can help, contact Jan directly, and copy to stock

janunaj@hotmail.com

If you are in the Michigan area, also contact me, and we will figure out a program.

stock@hawaii.rr.com

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Seeking stellar anti-nukes for educational/political project in Chicago and SW Michigan.

We are meeting with policy-makers to garner support for, and to introduce, a resolution demanding that Palisades PWR in Covert, Michigan be decommissioned this year.

Palisades' pressurized reactor vessel is embrittled and might not withstand an influx of cool water such as would be necessary in an emergency. 

Much younger plants of similar design have been closed because of embrittlement.

Palisades is 44 years into a 40-year projected life (Yeah, NRC gave it a “go”.) and it threatens Lake Michigan, the water supply of 40 million innocents.

Nuke-waste is a huge problem at this plant and the first step in dealing with waste is to stop making it.

Politicians need our input so they will know how important this is.

To help with this project post to janunaj@hotmail.com or tweet @janboudart.

I can send you good information summaries for Palisades, and perhaps a flyer type of bullet points that can be left for people to review.

Jan Boudart, Rogers Park, Chicago