Blogging the End of the World™
By Ursula Goodenough5 May 2011 Sometimes, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. I was recently at a scientific conference on the development of sustainable biofuels, this being my lab’s research focus. Much data was presented and much was said of substance. But the one slide I made sure to get a […]
TOKYO, May 14 (AFP) – A highly radioactive substance was detected in ash from an incinerator at a sewage works in Tokyo in late March following the nation’s worst nuclear accident in Fukushima, newspapers reported Saturday. The ash, containing an unidentified substance with a radioactive density of 170,000 Becquerel per kilogramme, was collected from a […]
Posted by LuqmanNaq18 August 2010 Here is Dmitry Orlov’s book reinventing collapse (highly recommended) – http://amzn.to/l9tEih Dmitry Orlov – Why superpowers collapse (short clip)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3rloGDFinM Post collapse, best practices (long talk)http://fora.tv/2009/02/13/Dmitry_Orlov_Social_Collapse_Best_Practices 5 stages of collapsehttp://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2008/02/five-stages-of-collapse.html What will a post collapse society look like? Technorati Tags: doom,infrastructure failure,corruption,Orlov
Associated Press writers Seth Borenstein in Washington, Roxana Hegeman in Wichita, Kan., Sheila V Kumar in Denver, Kristi Eaton in Oklahoma City and Sue Holmes in Albuquerque, N.M., contributed to this report.10 May 2011 LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — With much of the nation focused on a spring marked by historic floods and deadly tornadoes, Texas […]
By Kamome Fujimori, Tatsuyuki Kobori and Yo Noguchi14 May 2011 Tokyo Electric Power Co. concealed data showing spikes in radiation levels at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March, one day before a hydrogen explosion injured seven workers. The Asahi Shimbun obtained a 100-page internal TEPCO report containing minute-to-minute data on radiation levels […]
Contact: Morgan Kelly, mekelly@pitt.edu, 412-624-4356, Cell: 412-897-1400 11 May 2011 A 2,300-year climate record University of Pittsburgh researchers recovered from an Andes Mountains lake reveals that as temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere rise, the planet’s densely populated tropical regions will most likely experience severe water shortages as the crucial summer monsoons become drier. The Pitt […]
UNITED NATIONS, May 12 (AFP) — Global consumption of natural resources could almost triple to 140 billion tons a year by 2050 unless nations take drastic steps, the United Nations warned Thursday. A UN environment panel said the world cannot sustain the tearaway rate of use of minerals, ores and fossil and plant fuels. It […]
[Reposted due to the Great Blogger Disaster of May 11th.] A report from the Japanese Nuclear Safety Commission Ex-Secretariat, Dr. Saji, credits the current status of the accident to “luck”. Gundersen discusses what could have happened if the wind had been blowing in-land. Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History Technorati Tags: Fukushima,Japan,Asia,pollution,infrastructure failure
[Reposted due to the Great Blogger Disaster of May 11th.] TOKYO, May 12 (AFP) – Environmental activist group Greenpeace said Thursday it had detected radiation far above legal limits in seaweed samples taken from the ocean off Japan’s stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Greenpeace, which sent its Rainbow Warrior flagship to take samples of marine life […]
By Hidenori Tsuboya and Eisuke Sasaki13 May 2011 A major new leak of highly radioactive water into the ocean near the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant was discovered May 11. Local authorities and the embassies of the United States and other countries, including neighboring nations, were notified of the latest setback at the stricken […]
