The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Illustrated 2011 Hurricane Forecast
— By Julia Whitty
Mother Jones, Wed Jun. 1, 2011
Compare that to the average during the 50 years between 1950 and 2000:
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(AP) – 25 May 2011
ROME (AP) — Seven scientists and other experts were indicted on manslaughter charges Wednesday for allegedly failing to sufficiently warn residents before a devastating earthquake that killed more than 300 people in central Italy in 2009.
Greater Democracy
Essential Tenets for Maintaining our Common Good
An essay written by Alan Page
The “common good” is the collection of what no one person owns, but which all people depend upon for life. A simple example is the air we breathe. No one owns it but we would all perish without it. Now the “common good” is being threatened by many different human activities and policies. Some of these include:
This document provides some guidance for how to enable humanity to act responsibly in a coordinated fashion without deprivation of anyone’s rights. An attempt is made to recognize the sources of control and motivation that exist and how to enable effective response as if our lives depended on it.
The PDF of the whole essay is here: Tenets CGF101110.pdf
Alan C. Page, Ph.D.
Research Forester
Phi Beta Iota: The full essay contains some very well-developed itemized measures of merit and we strongly second Brother Jock's recommendation.
ROLLING UPDATE from Beginning of Crisis
SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/PBI-Japan-Update
16 May 2011
ALL: Study: Seaports unready for climate change
CANADA: Climate change threatens arctic coastlines
CHINA: China’s Nuclear Arsenal: Status and Evolution
EUROPE-SPAIN: Spanish Quake Jolts European Nuclear Debate
GERMANY-JAPAN-USA: Nuclear Nations Turn To Natural Gas And Renewables
INDIA: Manmohan Singh takes stock of country's nuclear arsenal
INDIA-PAKISTAN: Towards An Indo-Pak Nuclear Lexicon: Minimum Nuclear Deterrence – Analysis
INDONESIA: Strong earthquake strikes off Indonesia’s Java island
JAPAN: Japanese Officials Ignored or Concealed Dangers
JAPAN: Japan Sticks to Timeline for Solving Nuclear Crisis
Plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. also acknowledged that one of the factors contributing to a rapid meltdown of reactor cores was the failure to keep emergency batteries safe from the tsunami, preventing a key emergency cooling system from performing its intended function.
Meanwhile, Tepco said one of the key causes of a rapid meltdown at Unit No. 1 was the failure of two emergency cooling mechanisms—the suppression pool and the isolation condenser—to perform their intended functions.
PAKISTAN: Pakistan's nuclear surge exposed
Indian slam, satellite and video, 100% jump by 2021.
SWEDEN: Sweden's Holding Tank For Nuclear Waste
“We have here about 2,000 tons that you are looking (at), and you can stand here as long as you want to,” she tells me before quickly adding, “If we take one of these bundles out of the water I will give you 20 seconds to leave this room alive.”
USA: US reactor outages 50 pct above late-spring average
USA: U.S. Nuclear Output Falls as Entergy, Progress Shut Reactors
Twenty- five of the nation’s 104 reactors were offline.
USA: 75% of Americans Have Never Heard of Climate-Gate, Study Reveals
Prior Updates, Graphics, and Original Overviews Below the Line
Continue reading “Nuclear/Climate Change: CLOSED 17 May 2011”
Three-Dimensional Orientation Mapping in the Transmission Electron. This image shows the arrangement of crystals in a 150nm thick nanometal aluminium film. The crystals have identical lattice structure (arrangement of atoms) but they are orientated in different ways in the 3-D sample as illustrated by the labels 1 and 2.
The colours represent the orientations of the crystals and each crystal is defined by volumes of the same colour. The individual crystals of various sizes (from a few nm to about 100 nm) and shapes (from elongated to spherical) are clearly seen and mapped with a resolution of 1 nanometer.
(Credit: Image courtesy of Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy)
ScienceDaily (May 16, 2011) — Scientists from Denmark, China and USA have developed a new method for revealing 3-D images of the structure inside a material.
Please spread link to this short [4 minute] video if you feel inspired!
From Kyle Thiermann, Surfing for Change:
Hi Everybody,
I'm excited to announce the release of my new movie “Where is Away: Solving
Plastic Pollution in 4 Minutes”. It tracks a plastic bag that I use in my hometown of Santa Cruz California, all the way to the north shore of Oahu, demonstrating both the destruction and solutions along the way. Famous musician Jack Johnson, and Story of
Stuff Annie Leonard join me in this fast-paced journey to highlight the power we all have to end plastic pollution.
Where is Away: Solving Plastic Pollution in 4 minutes
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