Posted on 11/12/2011 12:54:00 PM PST by Burn Rome
I noted in June that debris carried out to sea in the Japanese tsunami would hit the Western U.S. and Canada within a year or so, and that nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen urged us to demand testing of radioactivity from the American government.
It turns out that scientists underestimated the speed with which the debris would reach the Western coast of North America.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonsblog.com ...
It will be on Ebay very soon.
Will this help me to better glow in the dark?
Well, in fairness, not everything is carried at the same speed... Also, the last time anything like this happened (Chernobyl), the debris was picked up by the wind over land, which is not quite the same as flowing through ocean currents. Climate models, on the other hand, are based on many observations over long periods of time. (Climate change models are something else. Europe is supposed to be cooling down but we've had a terrifically mild autumn here in Paris.)
But you are correct that scientists are not infallible. A few of them (i.e., Richard Dawkins) get hung up on the power of science. Most of them are more modest about their capacity to correctly interpret novel situations/findings/et c. before lots of corroborative data is available. Unfortunately, the journalists seem to take any leaning in one direction as a sign that "scientists believe X."
Gunderson is a lifelong anti-nuke activist who’s been feasting on the Fukushima disaster like the vulture that he is. TD and George Washington (as well as MSNBC) are constantly sourcing him.
ZH can be decent for markets and metals news, but the anti-Semitism and Ron Paul adulation (notice how often they go hand-in-hand) can be too much to bear. One of the posters there, Turd Ferguson, started his own breakaway site, and he’s really good, but sadly his site is being overrun by the same types.
We could use a washing machine and a fishing boat. LOL!
Actually I spoke to a lady in Hawaii today who told me it had gone past them already. Thing is they’re so small in the big scheme of things, the islands didn’t catch much of it.
North, and South America will be the end of the journey. It’s all going to wash up on our shores, so to speak.
Whistel, Bad indeed, very bad.
About 3,000 workers covered in head-to-toe “protective gear” travel to the nuclear power plant every day. Although eight months have passed since the crisis began and workers are close to achieving cold shutdown of the plant’s reactors, the situation is still tense, as work must be done in some locations where radiation levels are still high at 100 millisieverts per hour or more.
http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20111113-310381.html
Rab.
Geee, thanks steve,
that sure makes everything better.
or something
Oh boy! she’s so busy with Occupy San Diego, I wonder if she’ll notice?
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