Ocean Floor Mining: The Next Terrible Thing
Source: Papua New Guinea Mine Watch “The New Gold Rush” doesn’t sound so great for the oceans Justin Housman | Surfer Magazine | July 21, 2016 Because we won’t be satisfied until the entire surface of the earth has been rendered in a never-ending pursuit to greedily dig up things that can be burned for fuel or hammered into profitable metals regardless of the consequences, humankind’s most adventurous profiteers have now set their sights on mining the depths of the sea floor for minerals and precious metals. This is one of the few zones of earth that scientists know very little about, full of strange creatures, unknown bacteria, and hydrothermal vents that may harbor the keys to how life on earth began. But let’s dig it up anyway, say the mining companies.
Chuck Norris: A GOVERNMENT COVER-UP OF EPIC PROPORTIONS
The global weather warfare/biological warfare assault that is being waged against populations and the entire web of life is now becoming all but impossible to hide or deny. The power structure controlled mainstream media weapon of criminal propaganda has recently launched an all out disinformation campaign to try and fortify the official denial of the geoengineering atrocities that are clearly occurring in our skies. Chuck Norris has drafted yet another hard hitting statement of facts in his unyielding effort to expose the ongoing global climate engineering assault and the government's increasingly desperate attempt to hide it. Our deepest and most sincere gratitude to you, Mr. Norris. Dane Wigington geoengineeringwatch.org A GOVERNMENT COVER-UP OF EPIC PROPORTIONS Exclusive: Chuck Norris Warns Of 'Grave' Risks Of Climate Intervention Source: WND, article by Chuck Norris Last week, I addressed how CIA Director John Brennan gave a historic speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, confessing something few thought they would ever hear: the federal government’s explicit and intentional climate intervention via operations like stratospheric aerosol spraying or injections, or SAI. What I didn’t explain is that SAI is a ginormous federal geo-engineering cover-up that is now being exposed, and yet not a single mainstream media outlet has reported on it. Let me explain. In April, the U.S. Senate directed the Department of Energy (DOE) “to review the findings of the National Academy of Sciences (or NAS) report,” “Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth,” and “to study the potential impacts of albedo modification (or solar radiation management), a potential method of geoengineering,” which included “smaller scale field trials.” Science magazine explained: “Albedo modification would work by lacing the atmosphere with tiny particles or aerosols that would reflect sunlight and mimic natural processes. For example, in 1991 the volcano Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines spewed 20 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, which spans altitudes from 10 to 50 kilometers. There, the sulfur dioxide produced aerosols that reflected enough sunlight to reduce global temperature by an estimated 0.3°C for 3 years. Albedo modification might also work by using aerosols to seed cloud formation in a lower atmospheric layer called the troposphere.” The U.S. Senate pushed the DOE to pursue albedo modification action a couple months before CIA Director Brennan gave his blessing to stratospheric spraying as a government operation that “potentially could help reverse the warming effects of global climate change.” What’s crazy about all that government endorsement is that the February 2015 NAS report, on which the feds base their entire toxic rain operation, “warned explicitly that albedo modification shouldn’t be deployed now because the risks and benefits were far too uncertain.” What are those risks? Here are just three grave consequences that we know about: Drought: The team under Chien Wang, a co-author of the NAS study and a senior research scientist at MIT’s Center for Global Change Science and the Department of Earth, concluded that albedo modification would lead “to dangerous changes in global weather: Precipitation would also decline worldwide, and some parts of the world would be worse off. Europe, the Horn of Africa, and Pakistan may receive less rainfall than they have historically.” Loss of blue sky: According to a report by the New Scientist, Ben Kravitz of the Carnegie Institution for Science explained, “Releasing sulphate aerosols high in the atmosphere should in theory reduce global temperatures by reflecting a small percentage of the incoming sunlight away from the Earth. However, the extra particles would also scatter more of the remaining light into the atmosphere. This would reduce by 20 percent the amount of sunlight that takes a direct route to the ground, and it would increase levels of softer, diffuse scattered light,” making the sky appear hazier. Hazards to human health and other earth life: The gravest of all consequences of atmospheric aerosol spraying is that, simply put, what’s sprayed above us settles down upon us and in us, as well as other life on earth. Photo credit: Penny Oliphant The U.S. government’s own National Center for Biotechnology Information, or NCBI, released a report in January 2016, the goal of which was “Assessing the direct occupational and public health impacts of solar radiation management with stratospheric aerosols.” The NCBI concluded: “Our analysis suggests that adverse public health impacts may reasonably be expected from SRM via deployment of stratospheric aerosols. Little is known about the toxicity of some likely candidate aerosols, and there is no consensus regarding acceptable levels for public exposure to these materials. There is also little infrastructure in place to evaluate potential public health impacts in the event that stratospheric aerosols are deployed for solar radiation management.” No wonder the co-author of the study on “Climate Intervention,” Dr. James Fleming, called geo-engineering like SAI: “untested and untestable, and dangerous beyond belief.” Another colleague and co-author, Dr. Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, the Louis Block professor in geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, and Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustafn, chairman in environmental science at Stockholm’s University, took it one step further. He warned, “The nearly two years’ worth of reading and animated discussions that went into this study have convinced me more than ever that the idea of ‘fixing’ the climate by hacking the Earth’s reflection of sunlight is wildly, utterly, howlingly barking mad” (that is why Dr. Pierrehumbert prefers to call albedo modification by the name “albedo hacking”). Dr. Pierrehumber added: “The report describes albedo modification frankly as involving large and partly unknown risks. It states outright that albedo modification ‘should not be deployed.'” So, why are the U.S. Senate and CIA director disregarding the dire and passionate warnings of scientists like Dr. Pierrehumbert and Dr. Fleming by demanding that the Department of Energy proceed with trials on geo-engineering? In the words of Dr. Pierrehumber, are they “wildly, utterly, howlingly barking mad”? Answer: Yes! Is it a mere coincidence that the very government agencies that are spraying our stratosphere with toxic chemicals were the actual sponsors of the NAS report? The NAS itself confessed: “The study was sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, U.S. intelligence community, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and U.S. Department of