The Rape of Fukushima Dai-Ichi

Dressed all in white from head to toe (including a respirator), it was a shotgun wedding.  Or worse, a rape.  But one way or the other, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials were out to force themselves and their radiation on a helpless Japan — again.  Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 1945.  More than a hundred thousand […]

Asia to North America: Eat My Dust!

North Americans breathe dust, pollutants, and microbial spores that cross oceans and mountain ranges without difficulty. University of Washington researchers describe the phenomenon in a recent issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Plumes of Dust & Microbial Spores   For the first time researchers have been able to gather enough biomass in the form of […]

Exxon’s Dangerous Energy Outlook

ExxonMobil presented its latest Energy Outlook report recently, the 2013 Outlook for Energy: a view to 2040 (pdf). The report is chock full of figures and graphs showing an inexorable rise in global energy demand and supply and the growing market for Exxon’s products. As can be expected, the report shows that despite some recent efficiency gains, […]

Playing court jester

Quoting Carl Sagan, I begin some presentations with this line: “It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.” But in the wake of a recent trip to the northeastern United States, it’s clear many people disagree with Sagan, choosing delusion over reality, […]

Oil may be seeping from Deepwater Horizon site

CBS News has learned that BP is set to embark Thursday on the fifth day of a little-known subsea mission under Coast Guard supervision to look for any new oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The BP oil rig exploded in 2010, killing 11 workers and sending an estimated 172 million gallons of oil […]

Poisoning the well: How the Feds let industry pollute the nation’s underground water supply

Federal officials have given energy and mining companies permission to pollute aquifers in more than 1,500 places across the country, releasing toxic material into underground reservoirs that help supply more than half of the nation’s drinking water. In many cases, the Environmental Protection Agency has granted these so-called aquifer exemptions in Western states now stricken […]

Extirpation Nation: How Much Of The US Will Be Habitable In 50 Years?

“Human adaptation to prolonged, extreme drought is difficult or impossible. Historically, the primary adaptation to dust-bowlification has been abandonment; the very word ‘desert’ comes from the Latin desertum for ‘an abandoned place’.” –Joe Romm “Adrift, drifting: what is left for the lone gull / adrift between earth and heaven.” – Tu Fu “If the water were to […]

The Cover Up: E-mails Show BP Lied To Authorities On The Deepwater Horizon Spill

BP has always claimed that it shared all information with the public and with the federal government about the extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the rate of flow of the leaking oil. BP has stated that it never knew of the true quantity of oil escaping the well until a few months […]

Top 3 Catastrophes Linked to Natural Gas Fracking

Thanks to hydraulic fracturing, often referred to as fracking, there’s a ton of natural gas available on the market right now. Those in the industry hail the practice as a blessing, allowing gas companies to access deposits locked in previously impenetrable rock. Although many have trumpeted the resulting decline in gas prices as proof that fracking needs […]

Peak Oil: How to Get Educated

Short film about the limits to growth.Uploaded by sparxistmovement October 2012

Major quake strikes off Japan, setting off tsunami

A powerful earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday evening, rattling buildings in Tokyo and setting off a small tsunami. It also jarred nerves in a nation still recovering from the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 that killed thousands of people and triggered the world’s worst nuclear crisis in a […]

As Fish Stocks Collapse, Overpopulated Lobsters Resort to Cannibalism

The Maine lobster population is booming, but it turns out that’s bad news if you’re a little lobster: “‘We’ve got the lobsters feeding back on themselves just because they’re so abundant,’ said Richard Wahle, a marine sciences professor at the University of Maine, who is supervising the research. ‘It’s never been observed just out in […]

Maugeri: IEA’s outlook for US oil output late, maybe low

  Runoff from Hurricane Sandy hadn’t dried before some were declaring it “the storm of the century.” Maybe it was, but it’s too early to say for sure. Despite the immense destruction, it certainly wasn’t the biggest natural disaster in the world or even in the US. “Historical records show that worse hurricanes have occurred […]

Almost half of Fukushima children now have thyroid disorders from radiation poisoning, officials blame ‘too much seafood’

Not much information comes out of Japan about Fukushima anymore, and the American MSM seems to have forgotten what watered down reporting they had done earlier. But the human suffering has begun in Japan, and even the Japanese government is trying to pretend it’s not happening. The curtain is pulled over the total impact of […]

Dispersant makes oil from spills 52 times more toxic

For microscopic animals living in the Gulf of Mexico, even worse than the toxic oil released during the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster may be the very oil dispersants used to clean it up, a new study finds. More than 2 million gallons (7.5 million liters) of oil dispersants called Corexit 9527A and 9500A were dumped […]

World Population Will Peak At 8.5 Billion In 2030

I write about this every now and then, because human fertility is falling faster then most demographers expect. Using the CIA Factbook for data, the present total fertility rate for the world is 2.47 births per woman that survives childbearing. Last year it was 2.50, and in 2006 it was 2.90.  2.10 is replacement rate. At […]

Limits to Growth: An alternative history

In 1972, the report titled “The Limits to Growth” discussed a series of scenarios of the current trends that foresaw a global economic collapse for some moment in the 21st century. The report also recommended actions designed to avoid such a collapse and stabilized the economic system. However, these recommendations were ignored and the report […]

Is This the End?

WE’D seen it before: the Piazza San Marco in Venice submerged by the acqua alta; New Orleans underwater in the aftermath of Katrina; the wreckage-strewn beaches of Indonesia left behind by the tsunami of 2004. We just hadn’t seen it here. (Last summer’s Hurricane Irene did a lot of damage on the East Coast, but […]

The Aftermath of Hurricane Sandy: A Long Term View

  Recently I been seeing something with my own eyes I haven’t seen for thirty years, other than on a television – gas lines. With electricity out in many areas, the transportation infrastructure damaged and two refineries shut down, this should not be a surprise. And just as expected, electrical power is being brought back […]

The population conundrum

  They were the decades that gave us Gordon Gekko and the Big Bang. The 1980s and 1990s were the boom years for stock-market investors, with globalisation, deregulation and rising productivity driving double-digit market returns. Yet, just as the financial crisis has unravelled previous assumptions about free market economics, an FT analysis shows that perhaps […]

radioactive contamination of Tokyo Bay

On 11/21/2012, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology reported they measured high level of cesium from the ground soil of Tokyo bay. The sample was taken on 10/16/2012.     Source   Related article..Japan/korea sea contaminated as much as Tokyo bay    Iori Mochizuki   fukushima-diary.com/

Is Humanity Really Going to Starve to Death in Twenty Years Because We Will Have Run Out of Potash and Phosphorus Fertilizers?

Don’t believe everything you read. Even if it’s published by the respected journal “Nature”. A week ago, my eyes about popped out of my head as I read the “World View” column in “Nature” featuring Jeremy Grantham: Then there is the impending shortage of two fertilizers: phosphorus (phosphate) and potassium (potash). These two elements cannot […]

Collapsing Into Gaia: What to expect when you’re expecting collapse

“Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners.  From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.” – James Lovelock “Oh, the hills are groaning with excess / Like a table ceaselessly being set” – Joanna Newsom “A physiology of Earth is intimately concerned with, above all, how the awesome cycles […]

It Takes 1,000 Times More Water To Feed A Person Than It Does To Satisfy Thirst

With the global population increasing, the demand for food will continue to boom. And this will put extraordinary strains on the world’s resources, especially water. In a recent Bank of America Merrill Lynch report titled The Blue Revolution – Global Water, strategist Sarbjit Nahal takes a close look at the water story as it relates […]

Very Few People Understand This Trend…

There are only a few people who get it: the era of cheap food is over. Global net population growth creates over 200,000 new mouths to feed ever single day. Yet supply of available farmland is diminishing each year due to development, loss of topsoil, peak production yields, and reduction in freshwater supply. Then there’s […]

World population report challenges Africa on family planning

The United Nations Population Fund ’s State of World Population 2012 report, is entitled “By Choice, Not by Chance: Family Planning, Human Rights and Development.” According to the report released by The United Nations Population Fund, making voluntary family planning available to everyone in developing countries would reduce costs for maternal and newborn health care […]

Climate Change Webcast Event Starts Tonight: 24 Hours of Reality

On November 14, from 8:00 PM EST until November 15 at 8:00 PM EST, The Climate Reality Project will host a 24-hour marathon webcast entitled “24 Hours of Reality: The Dirty Weather Project,” led by The Climate Reality Project’s founder and chairman, former Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore. The webcast will be a series of live recordings […]

IEA World Energy Outlook: Fossil fuel subsidies jumped 30% to $523 billion in 2011

EU: The EU has announced it is to suspend the inclusion of international airlines from its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). It said it would wait one year for an international deal to be agreed before it began forcing airlines to account for their CO2 emissions. IEA: The International Energy Agency’s 2012 World Energy Outlook publication has […]

Thyroid abnormalities found in 43% of Fukushima kids declared ‘ok’ by gov’t

Title: White Paper: Fukushima Health Survey Occupies Medical & Legal Conundrum Source: SimplyInfo […] Dr. Suzuki who has been running the Health Survey along with Dr. Yamashita […] claimed it is unlikely thyroid cancer rates would rise and that the results found so far where over 43% of children had abnormalities were “ordinary”. […] These […]

Billions in Subsidies Prop up Unsustainable Overfishing

Calls are mounting for the world’s big fishing powers to stop subsidising international fleets that use destructive methods like bottom trawling in foreign coastal waters, drastically reducing the catch of local artisanal fishers who use nets and fishing lines. Such subsidies total 27 billion dollars a year, with nearly two-thirds coming from China, Taiwan and […]

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