@durrie
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Nasa's smoking gun...
It is election time in the UK and the legality of the War in Iraq, pensions, council tax and the NHS are the main bones of contention being pushed.
What good is any of this without a world to live in...—
Now even though I for one am usually the first to roll my eye's when headines of scientist findings hit the the papers...it's usually when the read...
"eating too much XYZ gives you cancer"...or something like that...
When an article is published by possibly the most respected and definatly the most famous institute of scientific research and discovery about the future sustainability of life on earth I for one take a keen interest...the governments don't...—
Last year oil giant BP here in London was under fire after it published PROFIT earnings of ?1.3m per hour...yes that's right you read correctly...
For every hour their doors were open for business in 2004 they earned ?1.3m PROFIT. That's ?21,666 every second...PROFIT!!!
The minimum wage in the UK when worked out at the maximum allowed number of working hours a week is less than half of that...FOR A WHOLE YEAR'S WORTH OF EARNINGS!!!
That's just one oil company...but my point is this...
With profits like that...even wether you believe Nasa and other scientist or not...why do governments not force these companies to develop electric engines or greener forms of transport compared to oil...or atleast the cleanest petroliums possible...?
With profits like that...why are they not forced to explain the cost of fuel even...—
With profits like that...how many sound and viable projects for clearner non combustion forms of transport have been squashed by oil companies or more likely been bought out or by oil companies...with the blueprints for these engines and tansports locked in a vault until the oil runs out so they can keep the manopoly...—
A government is ment to have control...and that control is ment to be exercised in areas required for the greater good of it's population...
Now with rising global temperatures REGARDLESS of an actual proven cause...even though every study undertaken suggests burning fossil fuels IS the cause...
I think we all know who is in control here...!!!
Shell...
?1.6m PROFIT per hour...that's $ 3,061,584.28 evry hour PROFIT!!!
Even dispite reduced production...—
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5038257.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/story.jsp?story=634063
Buy BP you do not own a auto anyway.
Durrie
WHAT IS DEPLETED URANIUM?
Depleted uranium is a waste obtained from producing fuel for nuclear reactors and atomic bombs. The material used in civil and nuclear military industry is uranium U-235, the isotope which can be fissioned.
Since this isotope is found in very low proportions in nature, the uranium ore has to be enriched, i.e., its proportion of the U-235 isotope has to be industrially increased. This process produces a large amount of radioactive depleted uranium waste, thus named because it is mainly formed by the othernon-fissionable uranium isotope, U-238 and a minimum proportion of U-235.
American military industry has been using depleted uranium to coat conventional weaponry (artillery, tanks and aircraft) since 1977, to protect its own tanks, as a counterweight in aircraft and Tomahawk missiles and as a component for navigation instruments.
This is due to depleted uranium having characteristics making it highly attractive for military
technology: firstly, it is extremely dense and heavy (1 cm3 weighs almost 19 grammes), such that projectiles with a depleted uranium head can penetrate the armoured steel of military vehicles and buildings; secondly, it is a spontaneous pyrophoric material, i.e., it inflames when reaching its target generating such heat that it explodes.
After more than 50 years producing atomic weapons and nuclear energy, the USA has 500,000 tonnes of depleted uranium stored, according to official data. Depleted uranium is radioactive also and has an average lifetime of 4.5 thousand million years.
This is why such waste has to be stored safely for an indefinite period of time, an extremely costly procedure. In order to save money and empty their tanks, the Department of Defence and Energy assigns depleted uranium free of charge to national and foreign armament
companies.
Apart from the USA, countries like the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Israel, the Gulf monarchies, Taiwan, South Korea, Pakistan or Japan purchase or manufacture weapons with depleted uranium.
When a projectile hits a target, 70% of its depleted uranium burns and oxidizes, bursting into highly toxic, radioactive micro particles. Being so tiny, these particles can be ingested or inhaled after being deposited on the ground or carried kilometres away by the wind, the food
chain or water.
A 1995 technical report issued by the American Army indicates that "if depleted uranium enters the body, it has the potentiality of causing serious medical consequences. The associated risk is both chemical and radiological". Deposited in the lungs or kidneys,
uranium 238 and products from its decay (thorium 234, protactinium and other uranium isotopes) give off alpha and beta radiations which cause cell death and genetic mutations causing cancer in exposed individuals and genetic abnormalities in their descendents over the years.
In its 110,000 air raids against Iraq, the US A-10 Warthog aircraft launched 940,000 depleted uranium projectiles, and in the land offensive, its M60, M1 and M1A1 tanks fired a further 4,000 larger calibre also uranium projectiles.
It is estimated that there are "300 tonnes of radioactive waste" in the area which might have already affected 250,000 Iraqis.
After the Gulf War, Iraqi and international epidemiological investigations have enabled the environmental pollution due to using this kind of weapon to be associated with the appearance of new, very difficult to diagnose diseases (serious immunodeficiency's, for instance) and the
Spectacular increase in congenital malformations and cancer, both in the
Iraqi population and amongst several thousands of American and British
Veterans and in their children, a clinical condition known as Gulf War
Syndrome.
Similar symptoms to those of the Gulf War have been described amongst a thousand
WHAT IS DEPLETED URANIUM?
Depleted uranium is a waste obtained from producing fuel for nuclear reactors and atomic bombs. The material used in civil and nuclear military industry is uranium U-235, the isotope which can be fissioned.
Since this isotope is found in very low proportions in nature, the uranium ore has to be enriched, i.e., its proportion of the U-235 isotope has to be industrially increased. This process produces a large amount of radioactive depleted uranium waste, thus named because it is mainly formed by the othernon-fissionable uranium isotope, U-238 and a minimum proportion of U-235.
American military industry has been using depleted uranium to coat conventional weaponry (artillery, tanks and aircraft) since 1977, to protect its own tanks, as a counterweight in aircraft and Tomahawk missiles and as a component for navigation instruments.
This is due to depleted uranium having characteristics making it highly attractive for military
technology: firstly, it is extremely dense and heavy (1 cm3 weighs almost 19 grammes), such that projectiles with a depleted uranium head can penetrate the armoured steel of military vehicles and buildings; secondly, it is a spontaneous pyrophoric material, i.e., it inflames when reaching its target generating such heat that it explodes.
After more than 50 years producing atomic weapons and nuclear energy, the USA has 500,000 tonnes of depleted uranium stored, according to official data. Depleted uranium is radioactive also and has an average lifetime of 4.5 thousand million years.
This is why such waste has to be stored safely for an indefinite period of time, an extremely costly procedure. In order to save money and empty their tanks, the Department of Defence and Energy assigns depleted uranium free of charge to national and foreign armament
companies.
Apart from the USA, countries like the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Israel, the Gulf monarchies, Taiwan, South Korea, Pakistan or Japan purchase or manufacture weapons with depleted uranium.
When a projectile hits a target, 70% of its depleted uranium burns and oxidizes, bursting into highly toxic, radioactive micro particles. Being so tiny, these particles can be ingested or inhaled after being deposited on the ground or carried kilometres away by the wind, the food
chain or water.
A 1995 technical report issued by the American Army indicates that "if depleted uranium enters the body, it has the potentiality of causing serious medical consequences. The associated risk is both chemical and radiological". Deposited in the lungs or kidneys,
uranium 238 and products from its decay (thorium 234, protactinium and other uranium isotopes) give off alpha and beta radiations which cause cell death and genetic mutations causing cancer in exposed individuals and genetic abnormalities in their descendents over the years.
In its 110,000 air raids against Iraq, the US A-10 Warthog aircraft launched 940,000 depleted uranium projectiles, and in the land offensive, its M60, M1 and M1A1 tanks fired a further 4,000 larger calibre also uranium projectiles.
It is estimated that there are "300 tonnes of radioactive waste" in the area which might have already affected 250,000 Iraqis.
After the Gulf War, Iraqi and international epidemiological investigations have enabled the environmental pollution due to using this kind of weapon to be associated with the appearance of new, very difficult to diagnose diseases (serious immunodeficiency's, for instance) and the
Spectacular increase in congenital malformations and cancer, both in the
Iraqi population and amongst several thousands of American and British
Veterans and in their children, a clinical condition known as Gulf War
Syndrome.
Similar symptoms to those of the Gulf War have been described amongst a thousand
The Gulf War right from 1991 has been a source of environmental destruction not just in Gulf but also all the way across the Arabian Sea..Due to the burning oil wells temperatures have increased...sun burns & allergies have become common and not to talk about marine toxins....
Hey Everyone...
Thanks for your comments and thanks for your concern...
Q...I hear you man. I know that uranium pollution is more poisonous that fossil fuel pollution but I and you as the general public don't really have the know how and facilities to deal with it other than to spread word of this attrocity and build the voice of concern...bottom line is the governments will still deal with it as they please...you know that!!!
The oil situation is something we as the general public are the main perpetrators of and as such actaully can help with regardless of the government situation.
This one we are doing to ourselves man...!!!
My point is that we have real power over the oil situation...and need to learn to respect ourselves more...!!!
If the world was a ball of oil, which it is not, it is nickle iron. at the comsumption rate of the year 1970. there is only enough to last 365 years. so we should run out soon.
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Conclusive proof that global warming is directly related to Man's burning of fossil fuels has been provided by Nasa Scientists.
They warn that the heat exchange between Earth and space is seriously out of balance.
Nearly one watt per square metre more heat is being absorbed from the sun than is being radiated back into space, test have shown.
What the findings suggest is that our climate will continue to warm by more than 1\2 a degree centigarde even without the increase of green house gases which other studies suggest rise at the same rate as the imbalance...
In a 5yr study led by Nasa expert James Hansen, more than 1800 robots have been diving up to 2km deep into seas around the world to take temperature readings.
He found that for every square metre of surface area, the sea is absorbing more of the suns energy than it is radiating back into space as heat, creating a global "energy imbalance".
Mr Hansen, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in NY, said..."This energy imbalance is the "smoking Gun" we have been looking for. It shows that our estimates of the human made and natural climate forcing agents are about right, and they are driving the Earth toward a warmer climate".
Nasa's results published in the journal Science are the latest to suggest a link between emissions and climate change - something disputed by the US government.
"There can no longer be genuine doubt that human made gases are the dominant cause of global warming"...said Mr Hansen