There is Only One Earth
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 @ 3:45 AM
When you realize that the smoke from forest fires in Siberia was the cause earlier this week for the haze that hung over the City of Prince George, and the calling for a weather advisory, it points to the reality of how small our world really is.
Of course we faced the same weather interactions in the past as we do today, but with the modern means of tracking the weather systems of the world the globe has "shrunk".
Make no mistake the fact that we are downwind of several billion people has an effect on what we breath and how we breath it. The air quanlity problems in China and south East Asia seem so far away from the central part of BC and yet they are not.
Are all of us on the planet concerned that we have an ever increasing population and ever decreasing supply of quality air? The short answer is no .
We in Canada, who enjoy a small population with a vast amount of land and water, have in the past been oblivious to the problems in other parts of the world.
This week that may have become more of an issue that we must face down the road when the city was blanketed with smoke from another continent.
We are ever increasingly eating our way through the planet. There is only one Earth , and while Canada may not be a major cause of the problems, we are ever increasingly being drawn into the problem.
I’m Meisner and that’s one man’s opinion.
Comments
Agreed and I also believe this is an excellent argument why we should not being providing China with raw materials for processing. They have a non existent pollution policy and any crud they produce and release into the atmosphere will end up here. This also shows the carbon tax is a joke and a cash grab because no matter how much we here in BC reduce our emissions to clean up “our” air someone else will just pollute it for us.
It took smoke from Siberia to realize this Ben? What about the radiation from Fukushima? Sure they say the radiation was low but it did get here. And the threat isnt over until Japan does something with the spent fuel rods that are sitting in a tank 100 feet in the air. If this storage tank goes dry there will be a lot more radiation coming our way. They are calling this plume gate as the reports about the radiation were intentionally wrong.
Yes it is a small world!
Littlebuds, actually China has an emerging environmentalist movement! People are beginning to demand cleaner air and cleaner water!
China should start to clean up its act and we should NOT be throwing in the towel and keep reneging on our promise to do our part! How do two wrongs make a right?
The carbon tax has had some small impact in B.C. already, perhaps smaller than anticipated.
Besides, we should be busy inventing new technologies to clean air, water and soil and then profit from selling it to the rest of the world! It’s a win-win situation, we do our part and while we are helping others to do theirs we are getting paid by them to help pay or our own efforts!
Just what impact has the carbon tax had, except for picking our pockets?
Since when is C02 a pollutant, plants love it?
Fukushima radiation is barely detectable against natural background radiation. We are still here even after 2500 or so nuclear bombs have been exploded in the past.
The earth will be here long after we are gone, until the sun finishes it off.
CO2 has been a pollutant for as long as water has been a killer.
Time that we figured out that “no-idle zones” are a joke? Cough, cough! Hack! Hack!
Why did they stop testing those nukes above ground seamutt?
This shows exactly how the radiation plum will settle in… only the radiation plum from Fukishima will be invisible and deadly. Only two weeks ago they lost all cooling pumps for three days and the spent fuel pool number four rose from 20 degrees to over 40 degrees… once it reaches 60’ish it begins to boil off and go critical. Spent fuel pool number four alone with only 10% of the total stored fuel rods at Fukishima would put of the radiation equivalent of all past nuclear tests and disasters combined 100-times over. It would all be over.
Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28870
Another thing I noticed is we can get a general prediction of our local weather three weeks out by looking at the hydro dam levels in the Philippines. Most of our moisture originates in the tropics south east of the Philippines and the storms gather together passing over the Philippines enroute to the Pacific Jet stream which piles the storms up off the BC/Alaska coast.
Last year when the Philippines had their big floods and the reservoirs were over flowing we had a wet stretch following… currently their dams are below their normal levels and we are heading into a dry stretch. It seems to correlate with a three week delay from dam levels either rising or falling thus reflecting the future storm levels here in BC.
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