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September 23 2014

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Mapping the World's Migrating Ocean Pollution - CityLab

Mapping the World’s Migrating Ocean Pollution - CityLab

▻ http:// www.citylab.com/ weather/ 2014/ 09/ mapping-the-worlds-migrating-ocean-pollution/ 379481

You sling a message in a bottle into the vast Pacific Ocean. The ocean is huge, you reason, high on romanticism and not considering your contribution to pollution. It could wind up anywhere, you think.

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Researchers from the University of South Wales in Australia, however, recently monitored the direction and speed of ocean swells over a 48-month period. Those figures were then correlated with data showing the areas that accumulated the greatest pollution density—known as “basins of attraction.” The study, published by the American Institute of Physics, indicates that the world’s bodies of water are far less connected than one might presume.

#cartographie #environnement #pollution #océan #visualisation

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February 13 2013

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Ozone hole shrinks to record low

Good news from Antarctica: The hole in the ozone layer is shrinking, new measurements reveal


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April 26 2011

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New Weaver Book a Gift for the Climate Confused

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Canadian readers should keep an eye out for Generation Us, a tiny climate change primer by University of Victoria Professor Andrew Weaver, the Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis.

Subtitled The Challenge of Global Warming, Generation Us is like a climate change CliffNotes. Published by Raven Books as part of a "Rapid Reads" series, this is a short, succinct, clear and readable rendering of the science - followed by a passionate appeal for us all to move from "Generation Me" (which really seems to have outlasted its stylishness) to Generation Us, in which we start taking seriously the opportunity we have to mitigate the climate damage that we have already inflicted on future generations.

Actually, if you're looking for an informed tour through the science, I might recommend Weaver's earlier book even more highly. In Keeping Our Cool, Weaver drilled down into the topic a bit more thoroughly, even explaining precisely how scientists such as Lonnie Thompson torture 650,000-year-old oxygen isotopes to get them to admit what the temperature was on the year they were frozen into the Antarctic plains.

But for someone coming to this topic without any science background, GenUs is a perfect introduction - and as such is an important addition to the climate library.<!--break-->

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March 15 2011

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Landkartenblog.de: LIVE! Mehrere Geigerzähler aus Tokio und Chiba (bei Tokio)

Hier finden Sie aktuelle Geigerzähler in Räumen von Privatpersonen. Dabei werden Werte von 15, 16 und 27 CPM angezeigt was im Wert unbedenklich ist. In wie weit der Wert sich außerhalb der Gebäude vor Ort sich ändert ist unklar. Laut einen Bericht auf CNN wurden Menschen im Umfeld des explodierenden Atomreaktors mit Werten um 18.000 bis 40.000 cpm verseucht. Ab 100.000 müssen Menschen, laut den Behörden Dekontaminierung werden. Ein Wert um 10 CPM ist normal! Erst ab einen Wert von 130 CPM wird es kritisch.

Es wird in Tokio zur Zeit (15:12 Uhr) ein Wert um 16.77 Counts per Minute (CPM) gemessen.



Ein deutlich höherer Wert wird hier in Tokio gemessen. Um 15:13 Uhr war hier ein Wert von 27,87 Counts per Minute (CPM) gemessen.



Dieser Counter in Chiba (südöstlich an der Küste vor Tokio) hat einen Wert von 15 CPM




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March 03 2011

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Josh Fox: Gasland

GASLAND - (2010) Directed by Josh Fox. Winner of Special Jury Prize - Best US Documentary Feature - Sundance 2010. Screening at Cannes 2010.

It is happening all across America and now in Europe and Africa as well - rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from a multinational energy conglomerate wanting to lease their property. The Reason? In America, the company hopes to tap into a huge natural gas reservoir dubbed the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. Halliburton developed a way to get the gas out of the ground—a hydraulic drilling process called fracking—and suddenly America finds itself on the precipice of becoming an energy superpower.

But what comes out of the ground with that natural gas? How does it affect our air and drinking water? GASLAND is a powerful personal documentary that confronts these questions with spirit, strength, and a sense of humor. When filmmaker Josh Fox receives his cash offer in the mail, he travels across 32 states to meet other rural residents on the front lines of fracking. He discovers toxic streams, ruined aquifers, dying livestock, brutal illnesses, and kitchen sinks that burst into flame. He learns that all water is connected and perhaps some things are more valuable than money.

GASLAND Trailer 2010 (via CMGOpMgr)

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February 25 2011

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Natural Gas Industry Rhetoric Versus Reality

   
As the recent natural gas industry attacks on the Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland demonstrate, the gas industry is mounting a powerful PR assault against journalists, academics and anyone else who speaks out against the dangers of hydraulic fracturing and other threats to public health and the environment from shale gas development. DeSmogBlog has analyzed some of the common talking points the industry and gas proponents use to try to convince the public and lawmakers that fracking is safe despite real concerns raised by residents living near gas drilling sites, whose experiences reveal a much more controversial situation

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May 31 2010

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All Your Palladium Belongs to Us


This is Norilsk city. Located in Russian Siberia this city hosts the biggest in Russia factory producing "rare" metals. It is even can be called a world leader when speaking about the worldwide production share it contributes. That's like 35% of palladium production, 25% of platinum, 20% of nickel, 10% of cobalt that are being made in modern world come from Norilsk, which makes it having number one of such kind factories in Russia. The price they pay for this is that 2% of total world CO2 production is coming from this city too. The area of 100 000 hectares (50,000 acres) around the city is consists of burned down forests. It was widely recognized one of the worst ecology city in the world and the average life expectancy is ten years less than the average values across the Russia.

Those photos were made there this May, and as you can see that's not a warmest place in the world too. It's common to have the snow in May out there.

But life is still going on. More than 160,000 people live there today, and children of the city still think that their place is the best place in the world, as we all someday thought back in our childhood.

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May 26 2010

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BP and the Audacity of Greed

Even as BP’s blown well a mile beneath the surface in the Gulf of Mexico continues to gush forth an estimated 70,000 barrels of oil a day into the sea, and the fragile wetlands along the Gulf begin to get coated with crude, which is also headed into the Gulf Stream for a trip past the Everglades and on up the East Coast, the company is demanding that Canada lift its tight rules for drilling in the icy Beaufort Sea portion of the Arctic Ocean. In an incredible display of corporate arrogance, BP is claiming that a current safety requirement that undersea wells drilled during the newly ice-free summer must also include a side relief well, so as to have a preventive measure in place that could shut down a blown well, is “too expensive” and should be eliminated. Yet clearly, if the US had had such a provision in place, the Deepwater Horizon blowout could have been shut down right almost immediately after it blew out, just by turning of a valve or two, and then sealing off the blown wellhead. The current Gulf blowout has already cost BP over half a billion dollars, according to the company’s own information. That doesn’t count the cost of mobilizing the Coast Guard, the Navy, and untold state and county resources, and it sure doesn’t count the cost of the damage to the Gulf Coast economy, or the cost of restoration of damaged wetlands. We’re talking at least $10s of billions, and maybe eventually $100s of billions. Weigh that against the cost of drilling a relief well, which BP claims will run about $100 million. The cost of such a well in the Arctic, where the sea is much shallower, would likely be a good deal less. Such is the calculus of corruption. BP has paid $1.8 billion for drilling rights in Canada’s sector of the Beaufort Sea, about 150 miles north of the Northwest Territories coastline, an area which global warming has freed of ice in summer months. and it wants to drill there as cheaply as possible. The problem is that a blowout like the one that struck the Deepwater Horizon, if it occurred near the middle or end of summer, would mean it would be impossible for the oil company to drill a relief well until the following summer, because the return of ice floes would make drilling impossible all winter. That would mean an undersea wild well would be left to spew its contents out under the ice for perhaps eight or nine months, where its ecological havoc would be incalculable.
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Top Kill Animation
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Ölkatastrophe im Golf von Mexico - morgen startet Operation "Top Kill"

Über einen Monat ist es nun schon her, dass die Bohrinsel "Deepwater Horizon" vor der US-Golfküste explodierte und sank. Seitdem strömen bis zu 100.000 Barrel Öl pro Tag ins Meer, alle Versuche, die ökologische Katastrophe einzudämmen, sind bislang gescheitert. Morgen nun will BP mit "Top Kill" den Durchbruch schaffen. Wie aber funktioniert das noch nie erprobte Verfahren?Bislang hat sich BP beim Kampf gegen die Katastrophe wahrlich nicht mit Ruhm bekleckert - von irreführenden Angaben über die Menge des austretenden Öls bis hin zum Einsatz von risikobehafteten Chemikalien wurde so ziemlich alles falsch gemacht, was falsch zu machen war. Nicht ohne Grund zweifelt inzwischen sogar die US-Regierung an der Kompetenz des Ölkonzerns - und das, obwohl BP sowohl Präsident Obama als auch zahlreiche Abgeordnete beider Parteien mit großzügigen Wahlkampfspenden unterstützt. Nachdem vor zwei Wochen der Versuch, das Bohrloch mit einer 100 Tonnen schweren Stahlglocke abzudichten endgültig gescheitert ist, soll morgen eine weitere technische Großanstrengung unter dem martialisch klingenden Namen "Top Kill" den Durchbruch im Kampf gegen die Ölpest bringen. Wie aber funktioniert das Verfahren - und welche Risiken sind damit verbunden? Das Prinzip ist schnell erklärt: Schwerer Bohrschlamm wird in das Bohrloch gepumpt und verstopft dieses, gegebenenfalls ergänzt durch ein Abfallgemisch, das unter anderem aus Golfbällen und zerhächselten Autoreifen besteht - dem sogenannten "Junk Shot". Anschließend wird das auf diese Weise provisorisch abgedichtete Bohrloch mit einer Zementschicht bedeckt. Der Vorteil einer solchen Vorgehensweise im Vergleich zu den bereits gescheiterten Versuchen ist, dass der Ölfluss sozusagen "direkt an der Quelle" unterbunden wird. Das nachfolgende Video verdeutlicht das "Top Kill"-Verfahren. Natürlich ist der Einsatz eines bislang unerprobten Verfahrens mit Risiken verbunden. Da das Öl mit enormem Druck aus dem Bohrloch austritt, müssen Abfall und Schlamm mit noch höherem Druck ins Bohrloch gepresst werden, um einen Verstopfungseffekt zu erzielen. Wird aber durch den Druck von beiden Seiten der ohnehin bereits beschädigte Blowout Preventer vollends zerstört, könnte am Ende noch mehr Öl als bisher in den Golf von Mexiko fließen. Laut Doug Suttles, dem Chief Operating Officer bei BP, liegt die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Misserfolgs zwischen 30 und 40%, was angesichts des schwer fassbaren Umfangs, den diese Katastrophe jetzt schon angenommen hat, wenig beruhigend ist. Es könnte demnach durchaus sein, dass sich die Situation an der US-Ostküste im Fall eines Scheiters von "Top Kill" noch weiter verschlechtert. Für diesen Fall arbeitet BP bereits an einer alternativen Lösung unter dem weitaus weniger martialischen Namen "Lower Marine Riser Package Cap" (LMRP). Dabei würde die demolierte Steigleitung abgetrennt und durch eine neue, mit einem Bohrschiff verbundene Leitung ersetzt werden, welches das an die Oberfläche schießende Öl auffangen könnte. Das auch dies keine dauerhafte Lösung sein kann, liegt auf der Hand. Unklar ist außerdem, ob BP bei einem erneuten Scheitern überhaupt die Chance auf einen weiteren Versuch erhält - so deutete US-Innenminister Salazar bereits am Wochenende an, dem Konzern das Heft demnächst aus der Hand zu nehmen, sollte nicht bald ein Erfolg eintreten. In diesem Sinne heißt es morgen wohl: Daumen drücken und auf das Beste hoffen - immerhin befürchten die Experten der American Association of Petroleum Geologists bereits, dass aus dem Bohrloch noch mehrere Jahre lang Öl austreten könnte, sollten alle Eindämmungsversuche scheitern. Was das wiederum für das marine Leben im Golf von Mexico bedeuten könnte, mag man sich gar nicht ausmalen...
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May 25 2010

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Oil reaches Louisiana Shores - The Big Picture - 20100524

Picture 10: A reddish egret, its legs and tail feathers coated with oil, flies above the water in Grand Isle, Louisiana, May 20, 2010. (U.S. Coast Guard photo/Petty Officer 3rd Class Patrick Kelley)
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