Dude…it is too late, man. We are all gonna die.
The last dinner conversation about this, someone with a straight face told us he would no longer be eating sushi because of the radioactivity, there are already huge dead zones in the Pacific Ocean and we’d soon be fighting wars over the dwindling stock in the sea. Went on to the subject of vaccinations and told us all that millions died from the Spanish Flu and the cause was “all the vaccinations they did in World War I”.
I was nice and STFU.
Should’ve mentioned Kermode bears were mutations from that B-36 that crashed in 1950.
[quote]Three months after making the wildly overblown claim that a second nuclear emergency at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant would require the evacuation of the North American West Coast, environmentalist David Suzuki said he “regrets” the comments.
Nevertheless, the Nature of Things host did not seem to go so far as to renege the claim, which has baffled nuclear scientists.
“I regret having said it, although my sense of potential widespread disaster remains and the need for an urgent international response to dealing with the spent rods at Fukushima remains,” wrote Mr. Suzuki in an email to The Province, which was compiling a feature on myths surrounding the 2011 Japanese tsunami.[/quote]
I felt this guy summarized up my thoughts on the matter fairly well.
I haven’t really been following this thread or paying much attention to the local fear - mongering goombas, but allow this to be my two cents.
alaskadispatch.com/article/2 … -radiation
Some of the comments are good too…
"Chew Bird
- The current leak rate is about one billionth of the initial release so the underestimate is minuscule.
- Nuclear weapons testing dumped 310.6 petabecquerels of cesium-137 into the Pacific Ocean. Fukushima dumped 10~15 PBq into the Pacific. By the time of the Fukushima disaster, the nuclear weapons Cs-137 had decayed to 100 PBq. So Fukushima increased the Cs-137 inventory in the Pacific by 10~15%. There is still so much Cs-137 in the Pacific that every day 6 terabecquerels of it decays into a stable isotope. The current leaks from Fukushima into the Pacific would have to be about 600,000 times worse just to maintain the level of Cs-137 already in the Pacific."
" Chew Bird
One correction when you said, “The natural radioactivity of the ocean is 2 Bq/m3.”
That was the level of Cs-137 still in the Pacific Ocean at the time of Fukushima from nuclear weapons testing. The natural radioactivity levels in the oceans is 11,000 Bq/m³ from potassium-40, 1100 Bq/m³ of Rubidium-87, and 33 Bq/m³ from uranium."
…and then you have this kind of mindset…
" Christina N Tony Villasenor
The Pacific Ocean is Done its dying right in front of our eyes just like America is. It’s over, pelagic species of fish travel from the eastern to western pacific yearly along with the whole ecosystem that makes up the life in it. This is a worldwide catastrophe and no one cares where is the UN with its money and supposed brains we should have the worlds smartest working together to figure out how to solve whats going on in Japan, but no its no big deal don’t worry increased radiation levels on the west coast mean nothing. Where is GE the designer of the nuclear plant? (ohh ya in the white house tucking osama in) Why did the US government just place an order for 14 million doses of potasium iodine? what you want to take during a nuclear disaster??? Wake up America its time for real men and women to stand up and put these criminals running our country in jail. Treason…"
LMFAO!
In the meantime, are they not constructing an ice wall to try and barricade the surface water leakage?
Also the B -36 comment was epic to me.
Why have I never had Tapatalk until now? 
University of Alaska professors Doug Dasher, John Kelley, Gay Sheffield, and Raphaela Stimmelmayr theorize that radioactive snow might have also caused Alaska’s seals to become sick.
more here
That’s from 2011. Don’t know why it’s resurfacing now.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article … -warn.html
Turns out that “radiation” was one of the causes they were looking at for a ‘mysterious illness’ – but more plausibly just an infection or something along those lines. But hey, take a link from 2011, re-date it 2014, and IT’S HAPPENING!!!
Here’s a more recent update: alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/pro … /diseased/
Especially read this 2013 update: alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/pro … te0413.pdf
Possible causes:
[quote]BACTERIA (Streptococcus phocae): This bacterium has been associated with a
variety of diseases in seals. The UME team is working with bacteria specialists
from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and University of Georgia to better
understand why this bacterium were identified within many of the UME
seals.
• BACTERIA (Mycoplasma): These bacteria have also been associated with
tissue samples collected from seals confirmed to have the UME symptoms.
Further research is ongoing to understand the presence of these bacteria in
both UME and healthy seals.
• ALGAE (Cyanotoxins): Large concentrations of algae that manufacture
natural toxins (harmful algal bloom) were documented during ice free
months in Kotzebue Sound during 2009 -2011. Initial tests for cyanotoxins in
the liver tissue from four UME seals resulted in very low levels of microcystin
detected in one seal. Testing is expanding to other toxin variants, more
animal testing of cases as and controls, as well as sediment and water
analysis to better understand the significance of the levels of cyanotoxin in
the seals.
• HORMONES (Endocrine): Thyroid hormones are essential for the normal
molting process in seals. Since affected seals have abnormal molting
patterns, hormone levels in UME seals and healthy seals are being tested and
compared.
• RADIATION (Radionuclides): Currently, preliminary results confirm cesium
137 levels in one healthy and four UME seals are similar to cesium 137 levels
in Alaskan seals sampled during the mid – 1990’s. Testing of the remaining
three seal samples for gamma analysis is ongoing. Muscle tissue sampling
and analyses for UME and healthy seals will continue during 2013.
• VITAMINS: Vitamins are essential for healthy skin. Since skin sores were
often on UME seals, the team is evaluating levels of vitamins (A, E, B) in
tissues collected from sick seals and healthy seals.[/quote]
Notice that the radiation levels they tested weren’t any higher than seals they sampled in the 1990s.
But yeah, the sky is falling. Just like it was in the mid-1990s.
[quote=“MiG”]
But yeah, the sky is falling. Just like it was in the mid-1990s.[/quote]
I knew this day was coming. Oh my!
Are we still all dying? I thought 2012 was 2 years ago.
[quote=“MiG”]That’s from 2011. Don’t know why it’s resurfacing now.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article … -warn.html
Turns out that “radiation” was one of the causes they were looking at for a ‘mysterious illness’ – but more plausibly just an infection or something along those lines. But hey, take a link from 2011, re-date it 2014, and IT’S HAPPENING!!!
Here’s a more recent update: alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/pro … /diseased/
Especially read this 2013 update: alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/pro … te0413.pdf
Possible causes:
[quote]BACTERIA (Streptococcus phocae): This bacterium has been associated with a
variety of diseases in seals. The UME team is working with bacteria specialists
from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and University of Georgia to better
understand why this bacterium were identified within many of the UME
seals.
• BACTERIA (Mycoplasma): These bacteria have also been associated with
tissue samples collected from seals confirmed to have the UME symptoms.
Further research is ongoing to understand the presence of these bacteria in
both UME and healthy seals.
• ALGAE (Cyanotoxins): Large concentrations of algae that manufacture
natural toxins (harmful algal bloom) were documented during ice free
months in Kotzebue Sound during 2009 -2011. Initial tests for cyanotoxins in
the liver tissue from four UME seals resulted in very low levels of microcystin
detected in one seal. Testing is expanding to other toxin variants, more
animal testing of cases as and controls, as well as sediment and water
analysis to better understand the significance of the levels of cyanotoxin in
the seals.
• HORMONES (Endocrine): Thyroid hormones are essential for the normal
molting process in seals. Since affected seals have abnormal molting
patterns, hormone levels in UME seals and healthy seals are being tested and
compared.
• RADIATION (Radionuclides): Currently, preliminary results confirm cesium
137 levels in one healthy and four UME seals are similar to cesium 137 levels
in Alaskan seals sampled during the mid – 1990’s. Testing of the remaining
three seal samples for gamma analysis is ongoing. Muscle tissue sampling
and analyses for UME and healthy seals will continue during 2013.
• VITAMINS: Vitamins are essential for healthy skin. Since skin sores were
often on UME seals, the team is evaluating levels of vitamins (A, E, B) in
tissues collected from sick seals and healthy seals.[/quote]
Notice that the radiation levels they tested weren’t any higher than seals they sampled in the 1990s.
But yeah, the sky is falling. Just like it was in the mid-1990s.[/quote]
Thanks MiG…