1,000 000 Curies of radiation released from the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory since it began!
Published on Jan 18, 2013
Abby Martin takes a look at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California, the nuclear testing that occurs at this site and the surrounding community’s unawareness of the potential danger it poses.
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USA’s nuclear workers – cancer from radiation exposure
U.S. ACKNOWLEDGES RADIATION KILLED WEAPONS WORKERS , By MATTHEW L. WALD Published: January 29, 2000 WASHINGTON, Jan. 28— After decades of denials, the government is conceding that since the dawn of the atomic age, workers making nuclear weapons have been exposed to radiation and chemicals that have produced cancer and early death.
https://nuclear-news.net/2012/03/17/usas-nuclear-workers-cancer-from-radiation-exposure/
Plutonium left Livermore – (but where did it go?)
UK useful Cumbria waste storage activist links for upcoming meetings
18 January 2013
Radwaste
no2nuclearpower.org.uk
On 10 January 2013, the group of all 6 Cumbria MP’s met in Westminster Parliament, to hear evidence concerning radioactive waste investigations and the NDA proposals to buld a GDF, should a suitable site be found. Evidence presented by Stuart Haszeldine and David Smythe is available here.
Edinburgh University School of Geo Sciences 17th Jan 2013 more »
FOUR of Cumbria’s six MPs favour a geological search to see if there is anywhere in the west of the county which might prove suitable to bury radioactive waste. West Cumbria’s two MPs – Jamie Reed (Copeland) and Sir Tony Cunningham (Workington) – have given their backing along with Carlisle’s John Stevenson and Barrow’s John Woodcock following an informal Cumbria cross-party MP session in Westminster. But Rory Stewart (Penrith and The Border) and Tim Farron (Westmorland and Lonsdale) say no formal decision was reached in last Thursday’s evidence-gathering session, held ahead of the January 30 meetings in which Cumbria County Council Cabinet, Copeland and Allerdale borough council executives will decide whether to start trying to identify a potentially suitable underground site through desk top studies. Meanwhile energy minister Baroness Verma has written to the three councils stressing government commitment to make “right of withdrawal” from the repository process legally binding as well as giving assurances over community benefits at a future stage.
Whitehaven News 17th Jan 2013 more »
Baroness Verma’s webchat is available here.
Carlisle News and Stat 17th Jan 2013 more »
Whitehaven News 17th Jan 2013 more »
Stop Nuclear Waste Plans for the Lake District Petition.
38 Degress 17th Jan 2013 more »
Businesses from across Cumbria will be heading down to Westminster to take part in the first Cumbria Day. It has been organised by the county’s MPs who have put party politics to one side to promote Cumbria together. The aim is show decision makers that there is more to Cumbria than the lakes and mountain which draw millions of visitors each year.
ITV 17th Jan 2013 more »
More than 500 people attended a meeting in Keswick to discuss their opposition to plans to bury radioactive waste under the Lake District or the Solway. Cumbria County Council, Allerdale Council and Copeland Council are to vote on whether the Government should include West Cumbria in a list of sites being searched for a a new underground repository for high-level radioactive waste. A quarter of West Cumbria was ruled out of the site search by a preliminary report of the British Geological Survey in 2010. The survey shows 75 per cent of the area left is within the national park. Campaigners have produced a video explaining their opposition to the plans to use Ennerdale as a place to dump nuclear waste underground.
Cumbria24 13th Jan 2013 more »
DITCH THE DUMP DEMO at Bowness Bay on Saturday 19th January 10am for a couple of hours. Come along and join in the Demonstration! There will be street theatre and art events. Help make a giant postcard to present to the Cabinet of Cumbria County Council and come along to make your voice heard.
Facebook 17th Jan 2013 more »
There is a demo in Cumbria on Saturday about the concerns of waste storage up there. Many of us here aren’t able to get up there this saturday so we want to offer solidarity to their action. We have recently been creating a presecence at the railhead where they transfer the highly dangerous radwaste in the middle of Bridgwater town right next to Eastover Primary School. Because of this this saturdays solidarity demo will be outside the railway station in Bridgwater with or without radioactive waste barrel costumes, please come and lend a hand giving out fliers, or just being a presence as a group.
Facebook 17th Jan 2013 more »
Kit and Charles Graves, directors of Lake District Hotels Ltd, have sent this message to people in the hope it will be forwarded, and those of you who object to what may happen will do something to help.
Visit Cumbria (accessed) 17th Jan 2013 more »
HALF a million pounds will be spent on protecting the Lake District’s image if councils agree to look for a nuclear waste burial site in West Cumbria. The Government has earmarked the £500,000 for a nationwide advertising campaign on top of £3.25 million already spent by the Department of Energy on the repository process, The Whitehaven News can reveal. Repository critic and Ennerdale parish councillor David Wood said: “The prospect of this money confirms that siting a GDF in the Lake District will damage the Lake District brand image – otherwise why is so much additional public money being used to promote tourism in Cumbria?
Whitehaven News 17th Jan 2013 more »
Letter from Bruce McKirdy: First, regarding Ennerdale – Mr Wood is entirely correct in saying that we have no current proposals for Ennerdale. The fact that Dr Dearlove, who advised the MRWS Partnership on geology, thinks it may be suitable does not mean we will investigate it in Stage 4. However, if the community decides to proceed to stage 4 and offers it up for investigation we will investigate it (as we would any other site or area offered up by a community). By community, I mean the decision- making bodies (DMBs) who would be advised by a community siting partnership. The definition of those terms is given in the report from the MRWS partnership.
Whitehaven News 17th Jan 2013 more »
Africa mining uranium – GROUPE FORREST INTERNATIONAL (GFI S.A.) – How to improve your image!
“It is relatively easy for someone to break into the nuclear reactor building or the nuclear waste storage building and steal rods or nuclear waste, with no greater tool than a lock cutter,” the cable continues. “It would also be feasible to pay a CREN-K employee to steal nuclear material.” In fact, this cable reports, one of two nuclear fuel rods stolen from CREN-K in 1998 was later recovered from the Italian Mafia in Rome. Mafia members were allegedly trying to sell it to unidentified customers in the Middle East, the cable adds.
“The second fuel rod has never been found,”
Uranium Mining in the DR Congo A Radiant Business for European Nuclear Companies ?
June 2011
“…The European Union (EU) and North America together consume almost two-thirds of today’s world uranium….”
http://www.nuclear-risks.org/fileadmin/user_upload/pdfs/Uranium_Mining_in_the_DRC_OENZ_June_2011.pdf
GROUPE FORREST INTERNATIONAL (GFI S.A.) is a limited company, under Belgian law, based at Wavre in Belgium. GFI S.A. has a holding structure, which encompasses a range of companies with a common shareholder, the Forrest family. The companies comprising the holding are active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Kenya, Nigeria, Central African Republic and in Belgium.
http://www.forrestgroup.com/en/gfi.html
http://www.africaintelligence.com/AMA/who-s-who/2011/03/02/george-forrest,88398625-ART
Uranium being smuggled via EA to Iran –
WikiLeaks 2011
Secret messages published by WikiLeaks show great concern on the part of US diplomats with alleged smuggling of uranium from poorly secured mines and nuclear facilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In one leaked cable from September 2006, the US embassy in Dar es Salaam suggests that uranium from the DRC may be passing through Tanzania en route to Iran.
Such trafficking is “common knowledge to two Swiss shipping companies,” this message states, citing “a senior Swiss diplomat” as the source of the allegation. In addition to its worries about Iran’s nuclear programme, the United States fears that raw uranium and processed nuclear material could make its way from Central and East Africa into the hands of terrorist networks.
A United Nations report in November revealed that a Rwandan gang operating in the eastern DRC tried unsuccessfully in 2008 to sell six containers of what was claimed to be uranium mined during the Belgian colonial era. American concern was highlighted last week by the signing of an agreement with the DRC aimed at preventing trafficking of nuclear and radioactive materials. The DRC and Tanzania are both rich in uranium resources. Congo was the source of the uranium used in the US nuclear weapons that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
And a July 2007 message from the US embassy in Kinshasa notes that “all of Katanga Province could be said to be somewhat radioactive.” Tanzania, meanwhile, was reported by Reuters in May last year to have at least 54 million pounds (108 million kilos) of uranium oxide deposits. Tanzania expects to begin mining this motherlode in the coming year, Reuters added, reporting that the French energy group Areva is interested in exploiting the country’s uranium deposits. Uranium is a valuable commodity.
The July 2007 cable from the US Kinshasa embassy notes that the price for a pound of the mineral increased from $15 in 2004 to $135 in 2007. (effective January 14, 2013 the market price of U3O8 is US $42.25/lb.* (Price changed -0.50 since last survey a week ago).
At Least Three Japanese Hostages in Algerian Gas Plant, Japanese PM Abe Protests the Use of Force by Algerial Military
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2013
EXSKF
(UPDATE) From Reuters, 30 hostages and 11 “Islamic militants” (aren’t they terrorists?) reported dead. Dead hostages include 2 Japanese, 2 Britons, and a French.
According to Yomiuri, there were 17 Japanese from Nikki, a plant engineering company.
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Conflicting information on what’s unfolding in Algeria:
- New York Times says “at least four hostages freed”;
- Reuters says “twenty-five were freed and six were killed”;
- Al Jazeera (quoted in Reuters article) says “34 of the captives and 15 of their captors had been killed”.
The Guardian has the live update. The military operation to free the hostages has ended, according to the Guardian.
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo pork-cutlet-over-curry-rice Abe called the Algerian counterpart to tell him to stop military operation, according to Yomiuri Shinbun(1/17/2013):
安倍首相は１７日深夜（日本時間１８日未明）、アルジェリアのセラル首相と緊急電話会談を行い、「人命最優先での対応を申し入れていたが、人質の生命を危険にさらす行動を強く懸念している。厳に控えていただきたい」と抗議、軍事行動の即時中止を求めた。
Prime Minister Abe made an emergency telephone call to Algerian Prime Minister Sellal, and protested, “We have requested that the human lives come first, and now we are worried that your action will endanger the lives of the hostages. I want you to stop immediately.”
セラル首相は「危険なテロ集団で、これ（軍事行動）が最善だ」と述べた。一方、アルジェリアに到着した外務省の城内実政務官も１７日午後（日本時間１７日夜）、同国のメデルチ外相と会談し、同様の要請をした。
Prime Minister Sellal answered, “They are a dangerous terrorist group, and this (military action) is the best course of action.” Parliamentary Secretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Minoru Kiuchi arrived in Algeria, and met with Algerian Foreign Minister Medelci to make a similar request.
PM Abe wants to ditch the Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution so that he can send his “military” (SDF) to war zones to succor his allies. In hostage-taking situations like this, the Japanese government under LDP has always insisted that the situations be resolved in a peaceful manner.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/at-least-three-japanese-hostages-in.html
Niger -1,600 tonnes of metal used in uranium extraction at Arlit – Now in the public domain!
“…They said that around 1,000 tonnes of this had been found at a scrap metal dealer’s, where handheld Geiger counter measurements in August showed gamma radioactivity levels to be “more than nine times greater than normal.”“There remains doubt about the fate of the other 600 tonnes,” the groups said in a press release. “Part of this scrap may have been sold abroad.”…”
Two giant towers emit steam at the Areva plant in Tricastin, France, on April 4, 2011. Areva said on Thursday it had beefed up safety procedures at two uranium mines in Niger after green activists said contaminated scrap metal from the facilitieshad been discovered at a local junkyard.AFP – French nuclear energy conglomerate Areva said on Thursday it had beefed up safety procedures at two uranium mines in Niger after green activists said contaminated scrap metal from the facilities had been discovered at a local junkyard.
A nuclear watchdog association, CRIIRAD, and a group in Niger called Aghir In’Man said 1,600 tonnes of metal used in uranium extraction had been hauled out of the mine complexes at Arlit and were now in the public domain.
Japan- Allegations of General Election Fraud on Dec. 16, 2012 come to light!
THURSDAY, 17 JANUARY 2013
Source: Allegations of General Election Fraud on Dec. 16, 2012 in Japan
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) won the majority of votes though they only had 14% of the vote. The new Government started on Dec. 26, 2012, and the media said one of the reasons why LDP won was that there were too many new parties that support a nuclear free society.
Therefore none of them got enough support from citizens who want a nuclear free society. However there have been so many reports from the general public through twitter and blogs on allegations of election rigging in the last one month.
Lots of voting places closed 1-4 hours earlier without any notice. Normally in Japan about 60% of the population goes to vote but this time so many people said there were very long queues outside the building. 85% of the nation doesn’t want nuclear energy, yet none of the ｐｏｌｉｔｉｃａｌ parties that support a nuclear free society did not do well. This does not sound right.
Image: http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C392J3410
Furthermore one company called MUSASHI CO., LTD dealt with the whole election: from counting votes to publicity; there is speculation that this company has something to do with nuclear power.
http://www.musashinet.co.jp/english/
Finally a written complaint of election fraud was submitted to the Tokyo High Court on Jan. 14th, 2013 and was accepted. I hope justice will be done before next general election this summer.
(Reference)
http://canadadenihongo.blogspot.ca/2012/12/blog-post_29.htm
h/t mia
UPDATE TO ARTICLE
23/1/13
I posted this correction in my blog.
Correction: 14% to 16.4% I would like to apologize that I didn’t explain well and got figure slightly wrong. Here is what I wanted to say: Even LDP won the election but it didn’t have majority support from the nation. You will find a good explanation in this Japanese blog:
http://uekusak.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2012/12/9-04db.html
Japanese media says LDP won the election by gaining 43% of votes and got 79% of legislative seats. However it should say LDP won the election and got 73% of legislative seats by only getting 16.4% of all voters and 27.7% of proportional representation.
According to this blog:
LDP small electoral district 43%
voter turnout 59.3%
proportional representation 27.7% of the vote
No. of votes obtained 16350,000
2 microsievert per hour measured off a dogs paw in tokyo!
Published on Jan 14, 2013
２０１３年１月１４日
雪降る東京で散歩から帰宅後、ワンコの足裏を測定した。
Jan/14/2013:
Measured dog’s paw for radiation contamination after a walk in snowy Tokyo.
h/t mike
Radioactive Japan: “Soft Drink” from Iwate Prefecture Tested With 4.1 Bq/kg of Radioactive Cesium
17 Jan 2013
EXSKF
(UPDATE) It turned out to be apple juice. Someone called the agency in Iwate who did the testing and asked. Why didn’t they just say it upfront, that it was apple juice? That agency will probably be scolded by the Iwate prefectural government for sharing the information.
People have been freaking out on their own speculation that radioactive cesium must have been from the water itself.
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No details other than it was “soft drink” bottled in Ichinoseki City in Iwate Prefecture, whose contamination had been initially denied by the city officials in the early days of the nuclear accident. It could be juice, it could be plain water. I can’t find information on the Iwaki Prefecture’s website.
One bottle tested had 4.1 Bq/kg of radioactive cesium, the other had 2.2 Bq/kg. The national safety standard for radioactive cesium is 10 Bq/kg.
In pre-Fukushima Japan, the level of radioactive cesium (Cs-137) in tap water in Iwate Prefecture was ND (not detected), according to the database by Japan Chemical Analysis Center.
Ministry of Health and Welfare’s data on January 15, 2013 says these bottles of soft drink were sampled from those sold in retail stores:
Video: “Going from bad to worse, day by day” at Fukushima plant — “The situation don’t improve at all”
http://enenews.com/video-going-bad-worse-day-day-fukushima-plant-situation-dont-improve-all
Published: January 17th, 2013 at 5:41 pm ET
By ENENews
Title: Statement von Izumi Yamaguchi zur Fukushima-Diskussion am 18.01.2013 in Düsseldorf-Bilk
Source: grueneddorf
Date Uploaded: Jan 17, 2013
At :45 in
Izumi Yamaguchi, from Tokyo, Japan: It will be 2 years since the accidentof Tepco Fukushima nuclear power plant No. 1 soon.
However, the situation don’t improve at all, rather are going from bad to worse, day by day.
This unprecedented serious circumstance, of course, has been bringing various serious results to Japan.
But most of Japanese people are indifferent to crisis of their lives.
They put themselves under one kind of self anesthesia. As if there were no nuclear power plant accident, no radio activities. […]
Fukushima: Hundreds of thousands of people still live in territories heavily contaminated areas
Image courtesy of infiniteunknown.net (Japan Times)
Press release from CRIIRAD
Consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
In Japan, the external radiation always causes unacceptable health risks for hundreds of thousands of citizens
1 / Many people still live in territories heavily contaminated
During the first weeks after March 11, 2011, deposits of radioactive cesium were widespread in Japan.
Only the population living in the circle of 20 km around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was evacuated during the first days of the disaster, but the fallout has affected a large territory, well beyond the 20 km zone and limits of Fukushima Prefecture. Depending on weather conditions, contaminated air masses moved hundreds of kilometers and precipitation (rain and snow) have aggravated the deposition of radioactive particles in soils and vegetation.
Press Release
ANNEXES
Reports / Reports
- Report No. 12-88 FR CRIIRAD
- CRIIRAD report No. 12-88 INVideos in English
- Monitoring of gamma radiation by CRIIRAD team in Fukushima city (June 2012)
- Monitoring of gamma radiation in Watari area of Fukushima city by CRIIRAD and CRMS team (June 2012)
- Monitoring of gamma radiation in Oguni area of city by Date CRIIRAD and CRMS team (June 2012)
Videos subtitled in French
- Measurements of radioactivity in Fukushima city in June 2012
- Measurements of radioactivity in Fukushima Watari June 2012
- Radioactivity measurements in June 2012 to Oguni Date
CRIIRAD Commission of Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity
Launch of new Russia sub class to put more nuclear missiles at sea
“….Indeed, Kurdrik has been skeptical of the perceived submarine build up in the North – a sabre Putin has largely rattled to protect enormous oil and gas reserves in the Russian Arctic….”
“….A recent report published by the Federation of American Scientists estimates that Russia has a total of 144 missiles with 350 warheads deployed on submarines currently.
Between 30 and 40 of the missiles are on the two to three operativing Delta-III class vessels based in the Pacific, and the rest on submarines based in Gadzhiyevo near the border to Norway. The total number for both fleets will increase to 172 missiles with as many 624 warheads by 2022 – nearly twice as MANY as today, according to the American estimates….”
“….Indeed, looking at a map of the existing nuclear weapons free zones, it only takes a glance to be reminded that a nuclear-free Arctic would bring some balance in a world where most nuclear weapons free zones are located in the South….”
Russia’s first Borey class ballistic missile nuclear submarine – and its first strategic submarine since 1992 – the Yury Dolgoruky, was officially commissioned Thursday to great fanfare and the presence of Russian president Vladimir Putin via video feed – to Russia’s Northern Nuclear Fleet.
14/01-2013
Bellona
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu attended the flag hoisting ceremony at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk in northern Russia, RIA Novosti reported. The signing of the acceptance act by the Defense Ministry took place on December 29.
The Borey class submarines are expected to form the core of Russia’s strategic submarine fleet, replacing the aging Project 941, or NATO Typhoon class, and Project 667 class, or Delta- Delta-4 boats.
Russia is planning to build eight Borey and Borey-A class subs by 2020.
With the commissioning of the sub comes an increase in the number of strategic nuclear warheads deployed from Russia’s Kola Peninsula.
It also brings with it no small measure of Soviet-style jingoism: Upon the hoisting of the sub’s flag, Dmitry Rogozin, Russia’s Vice Premier and former ambassador to NATO posted a tweet to his twitter account reading “shiver bourgeoisie. You’re done for.”
Quantum Pendants radioactive – 2 independent tests from bloggers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZxX3ZWY4nw
The Quantum Pendant
Published on Jan 13, 2013
I bought a Quantum Pendant and MY pendant turned out to be radioactive. 🙂
Please note, my analysis was only for my personal quantum pendant and not others. I make no claim about any quantum pendant beyond my own.
Radioactive quantum scalar energy pendant review
A second analysis of another pendant
Published on Jan 13, 2013
the atomic age’s quack cures, today!
let’s have a closer look at this radioactive pendant…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfGKJK8Zgtc
i personally would not know why this should have any beneficial effects on my body. the stuff i have read about it sounds like absolute pseudoscience; scientific words are mixed up randomly in a context that makes zero sense to the literate person (but may sound amazing to an uninformed person).
maybe i’ll still wear it for a month or so, though, “just in case there’s something i don’t know”. i did the same with homeopathy once (with zero effects, but that’s probably because i believed it was quack from the first second – but i did take my sugar beads exactly as prescribed).
Remembering Aaron Swartz -Breaking The Set, Wiki and Richard Silverstein
“…There is a witchunt on on-online activists…”
Published on Jan 16, 2013
Breaking The Set – RT
Duration 14 mins (approx)
Abby Martin gives a tribute to internet prodigy and computer genius, Aaron Swartz and speaks to Producer Manuel Rapalo, who is reporting on the ground in Chicago from Aaron’s Swartz’s funeral.
From Wiki…
Swartz was significantly involved with a campaign to prevent the passing of the Stop Online Piracy Act(SOPA) bill that sought to monitor the Internet for copyright violations and would have made it easier for the U.S. government to shut down websites accused of violating copyright.[32]
Following the defeat of the bill, Swartz was the keynote speaker at the F2C:Freedom to Connect 2012 event in Washington, D.C., on May 21, 2012. His speech was titled “How we stopped SOPA”[33]and he informed the audience:
“There’s a battle going on right now, a battle to define everything that happens on the internet in terms of traditional things that the law understands… [Under SOPA], new technology, instead of bringing us greater freedom, would have snuffed out fundamental rights we’d always taken for granted”
WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
Remove United States District Attorney Carmen Ortiz from office for overreach in the case of Aaron Swartz.
It is too late to do anything for Aaron Swartz, but the who used the powers granted to them by their office to hound him into a position where he was facing a ruinous trial, life in prison and the ignominy and shame of being a convicted felon; for an alleged crime that the supposed victims did not wish to prosecute.
A prosecutor who does not understand proportionality and who regularly uses the threat of unjust and overreaching charges to extort plea bargains from defendants regardless of their guilt is a danger to the life and liberty of anyone who might cross her path.
Promoting Israeli democracy, exposing secrets of the national security state
Aaron Swartz hung himself a few days ago in his Brooklyn apartment.
Many of you will ask: who was Aaron Swartz? He was only a cross between Henry David Thoreau and Steve Jobs, someone who stood at the divide between the digital world and a visionary quest for freedom. A man who devised RSS at the age of 14. Those of you who use any sort of online reader to collect or aggregate the blogs and websites you follow couldn’t have done so without the genius Swarz employed to create it.
Limiting global warming by cutting carbon emissions
Climate change damage can be limited by carbon cuts: study, SMH,
January 14, 2013 – The world could avoid much of the damaging effects of climate change this century if greenhouse gas emissions are curbed more sharply, research shows.The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, is the first comprehensive assessment of the benefits of cutting emissions to keep the global temperature rise to within 2 degrees Celsius by 2100, a level which scientists say would avoid the worst effects of climate change.
It found 20 to 65 per cent of the adverse impacts by the end of this century could be avoided.
“Our research clearly identifies the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions – less severe impacts on flooding and crops are two areas of particular benefit,” said Nigel Arnell, director of the University of Reading’s Walker Institute, which led the study…….
The latest research involved scientists from British institutions including the University of Reading, the Met Office Hadley Centre and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change, as well as Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
It examined a range of emissions-cut scenarios and their impact on factors including flooding, drought, water availability and crop productivity. The strictest scenario kept global temperature rise to 2 degrees C with emissions peaking in 2016 and declining by 5 per cent a year to 2050.
Flooding
Adverse effects such as declining crop productivity and exposure to river flooding could be reduced by 40 to 65 per cent by 2100 if warming is limited to 2 degrees, the study said.
Global average sea level rise could be reduced to 30cm (12 inches) by 2100, compared to 47-55cm (18-22 inches) if no action to cut emissions is taken, it said.
Some adverse climate impacts could also be delayed by many decades. The global productivity of spring wheat could drop by 20 per cent by the 2050s, but the fall in yield could be delayed until 2100 if strict emissions curbs were enforced.
“Reducing greenhouse gas emissions won’t avoid the impacts of climate change altogether of course, but our research shows it will buy time to make things like buildings, transport systems and agriculture more resilient to climate change,” Arnell said.
About 190 nations are aiming to sign a deal by 2015 which will legally bind countries to make ambitious emissions cuts but it will not come into force until 2020.
Paladin, Malawi given 14 days to renegotiate uranium deal, by Charles Kufa, Nyasa Times, 14 Jan 13, Malawi’s opposition Peoples Transformation Party (Petra) has added its voice to the concerns raised by African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) that the government of Malawi had made a bad choice of project given the absence of transparency and accountability in the deal.
PETRA president Kamuzo Chibambo tol d reporters in Blantyre on Monday that his party has given Paladin and President Joyce Banda’s administration 14 days to explain why the uranium mining deal can’t be renegotiated for the benefit of Malawians……
He demanded that the government should renegotiate for at least a 40% stake and selling rights in the next 14 days…..
He also asked the government to tell measures it has put in place to avoid pollution seeping into Lake Malawi…..
A representative of the CSOs Moses…
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US court drops charges on Aaron Swartz days after his suicide RT
“…In closing, the collective said, it “intends to pursue reform within the DoJ and other government agencies to prevent the kind of unnecessary harassment that Aaron Swartz was victim to. Some of the brightest men and women in the fields of information technology and security are being targeted by agencies that lack a basic understanding of the so-called crimes they are accusing people of.”…”
Published: 15 January, 2013, 02:14
RT
A federal court in Massachusetts has dismissed the hacking case against Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide on January 11 while facing decades behind bars and a $1 million fine.
A federal court in Massachusetts has dismissed the hacking case against Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide on January 11 while facing decades behind bars and a $1 million fine.
The dismissal follows an investigation into Swartz’s involvement in the theft of content held in JSTOR, a digital journal archive used by universities and other research institutions. Swartz, who resided in New York City at the time of his death, had accessed JSTOR through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s library, which is why the case was being heard in that state.
Though JSTOR decided not to press charges – even urging the US government to drop the case – MIT went ahead with a civil case. As a result, Swartz faced serious legal consequences, which observers believe led to his suicide last week.
According to a Huffington Post report, Swartz’s defense team suspected federal attorneys were using Swartz as an example to show how serious they could be with online crime cases.
US attorney Stephen Heymann pursued Swartz because the case “was going to receive press and he was going to be a tough guy and read his name in the newspaper,” Elliot Peters, Swartz’s lawyer, said.
1 This Month
26 April – Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown airs on National Geographic on Sunday 26th April from 4pm
29 April – Nuclear Expert Webinar #1 – Radiation Impacts on Families with Mary Olson and Cindy Folkers
- 12:15 PM MT – 1:45 PM MT
- Location: Virtual – REGISTER TODAY
4 May -West Suburban Peace Coalition to discuss Iran war at May Educational Forum
Monday, May 4, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Central Standard Time
Title: : How Trump’s Narrative Tries to Shape the Reality of the War on Iran.
Contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com 630 442 3045 for further information
14 May – online event From Bombs to Data Centres: the Face of Nuclear Colonialism
Pine Ridge Uranium is the real threat, not Tehran- Tell Burgum: Stop the Extraction.
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
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