ENVIRONMENTALISM
Environmentalism is the promotion of the conservation and recuperation of the natural world. Also it is known as conservationism, or Green Politics.
A conservationist is a person who is worried about the environmental deterioration.
Labels, which are identical for two classes of environmentalists, should not confuse us: activists or radical environmentalists and science-based environmentalists are two opposite classes of conservationists.
There is an enormous divergence among the radical environmentalism and the scientific environmentalism, mainly by the foundations upon which both groups are based. Often, the activists are not established on science, but are diametrically opposed to the science.
Besides, we should not use the name "Ecology" to identify "Environmentalism", nor vice versa. Ecology is the branch of Biology that studies the relations among the living beings and their environment, while environmentalism is a campaign in favor of environment.
The same thing occurs with the terms "Ecologist" and "Environmentalist". Ecologist is a scientist dedicated to the study of Ecology, while Environmentalist is a person worried about the deterioration of the Environment.
Let me give you an example. When a person says publicly that "the emissions of such industry are deteriorating the ecology of our city", really is saying that "the emissions of such industry are deteriorating the science dealing with the relations among biotic and non-biotic factors", which results to be a linguistic aberration.
Therefore we must to be careful with the labels of the environmentalist groups, as with the application of the terms "Ecology", "Ecologist", "Environmentalism" and"Environmentalist".
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the sum of all species living in a specific area, or in the entire world.
The biodiversity crisis refers to the absolute extinction of many species in our planet.
This implies a quick decrease in the life's diversity on the Earth.
Although the extinction is a process that occurs normally, currently the human activities have provoked that the rate of extinction has been increased 50 times over the normal extinction rate.
The biodiversity is important for the human beings because we depend directly on the remainder of the species, whether to dress, to eat, or to get medicines from them.
The disappearance of about 40 000 species along the two last centuries is defined like an ecological catastrophe.
The advance of the human populations, agricultural and industrial activities, has devastated the 50% of land surface.
If we continue with our destructive eagerness, we will be soon in the threshold of the disappearance of the life on the Earth.
HERE IS A SHORT LIST OF THREATENED SPECIES:
Pallid Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus)
Least Tern (Sterna antillarum)
Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
Whooping Crane (Grus americana)
Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus anatum)
Black-Footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes)
Gray Wolf (Canis lupus)
Caribou (Rangifer caribu)
Tiger (Panthera tigris)
Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis and Rhinoceros unicornis)
As them, there are 2500 species in danger of extinction.
Global Warming
Actually, the Earth's climate is very complex, and we require of many tests to determine the real origin of the Global Warming .
Specialists in the Goddard Institute for Space Studies of NASA carried out a review of the Global Warming, according to registrations performed since 1951. In this study, they suggest that pollutants non-related with carbon dioxide, for example tropospheric ozone, methane, chlorofluorocarbons and particles of black carbon (dust) have provoked the climate change.
This is a very important exposure, every time we have constantly handled to the carbon dioxide as the most important cause of climate change. Read the complete report at NASA page: http://science.nasa.gov
Believe me, I had doubts on writing this small bioreport because when a scientist in a good standing to care declares publicly something that has discovered through the exercise of his profession, regularly he is called a liar, to go crosscurrent, of being a propagandist that works for the industrials, etc. This last is a common practice in the scope of the defenders of the global warming by human causes.
When one of us -rigid scientists who know what one is talking about, based on facts readily available that endorse our arguments- presents a report where it is demonstrated that global warming is not an anthropogenic phenomenon, but a normal and cyclical natural phenomenon, the ideologists of the human origin of the global warming look for small human defects seeking to put in doubt the honest work of that scientist. Most times, they vociferate accusing the scientist to be liars, to manipulate the data, to distort science, to work for oil companies, of not having sufficient schoolwork to argue on the subject, to be a Mexican, and tens and tens of things that turn out to be absolutely false.
When they see that the work of the blamed scientist is truthful, they end up saying that they, who are not scientists and who as soon as they reached a baccalaureate degree, they know more than the scientists with years and years of accumulated experience and with an impeccable curriculum.
Almost immediately they say, “What’s the worth of your titles if you are a liar”. Sure the scientist will leave by prudence, not because he had been defeated, but because the defenders of the global warming by human causes are people who lack scruples, fanatics of one cause that, scientifically, cannot be defended.
Few days ago, I experienced unfounded attacks from ignorant and pointless people in a spanish forum in the Internet of fans to meteorology. Those guys in that forum could never demonstrate that my calculations were wrong because I became strictly attached to science and they are not scientists. Through that algorithm, which many scientists have made reaching to the same conclusion, I had discovered that the global warming is a true hoax at world-wide level. But they, being ignorant of the scientific method, could not discredit my work. Instead of presenting proofs to their cause (because it cannot be called theory), they devoted to look for faults in the man. Imagine it! By their insanity, they said that I was a “Troll”. I had never laughed on someone like that day when I saw them laying impotent facing true science.
Indeed, dear reader, what you have heard from Media, from scientists, from environmentalists, etc., about global warming is a fraud, a full deceit; not in the sense that it is not happening, in the sense that it is not generated by carbon dioxide, but by the increase of Solar Irradiance. It is said by an honest scientist, patron member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a patron member of the New York Academy of Sciences, certificated by Harvard University in Scientific research, graduated in Meteorology, Climatology, Physics, Methodology of Life Sciences, etc. Please do not think that I am conceiting my academic titles, I am just demonstrating that those people are pseudoenvironmentalists disrespectful people without scruples, who rummage around for their own profit by terrifying the whole world.
WHERE IS HEAT? While surface temperatures across most of the globe are on the rise, the eastern U.S. appears to be slowly cooling. Scientists say the trend could be a result of increasing cloud cover triggered by warming Pacific waters. This cloud is bright white when viewed from above because they reflect sunlight back into space. The ground and atmosphere below this big cloud absorb less solar radiation and therefore release less heat into the environment, keeping the atmosphere cooler than if the cloud wasn't there. Walter A. Robinson of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, James Hansen of NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Reto Reudy of Science Systems and Applications, Inc. will present these findings in a paper entitled "Where's the Heat? Insights from GCM Experiments into the Lack of Eastern U.S. Warming" at the American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, N.M. on January 15. (Note published by NASA GSFC press release).
Besides, NASA attributes the climate change and the global warming to Sun activity: In a press release on December 10, 2003, NASA scientists declare that "Changes in the sun's activity have been considered responsible for some part of past climatic variations. Although useful measurements of solar energy are limited to the last 25 years of satellite data, this record is not long enough to confirm potential trends in solar energy changes over time. Tentative connections between the measured solar activity, with sunspots or the production of specific particles in the Earth's atmosphere (such as carbon-14 and beryllium-10), have been used to estimate past solar energy." (Click here to read the complete report from NASA),
OZONE DEPLETION AREA
NASA has detected an increment in the width of the ozone depletion area. At present, the area measures a little more than 28 million square kilometers. This represents an expansion of the 2% annual. After the Protocol of Montreal, we thought that the actions taken would be sufficient to stop the destruction of the ozone layer, therefore we see that it is not as we thought. I think that everything we can do to stop the destruction will be valuable for the future generations (To get an idea, the present extension of the depletion zone is three times larger than all the territory of the United States).
As you already know, the pollutant gases aggregated to the atmosphere have caused the depletion of ozone layer, especially the chlorofluorocarbonated (CFC) compounds. Most of them generated through human activities, as aeronautics, astronautic, industrial activities, use of aerosols, etc.
We cannot do a great deal to stop the process, therefore although we decide to abandon totally those practices, the recuperation of the ozone layer would take several centuries to be recuperated. Besides, NASA has shown that a substantial part of those gases is produced by nature.
The instrument used for this measurement was the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS), mounted in the Earth Probe (TOMS-EP) satellite.
As we informed above, the ozone layer depletion has been expanding in an abnormal pattern through the last four months. According to the report from NASA, the ozone layer "hole" has been expanding in an accelerated way and it has reached a diameter three times greater than the entire area of USA
Now NASA has released a report that has spawned scratchy suspicions on the environmentalist organizations. The cause of this worry are the statements of the specialists in space climate who assure that according to the studies of NASA, the cause of the climate change is not provoked purely by the Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) compounds, but also by phenomena acting in the stratosphere.
Doubts on the cause of the unusual expansion of the ozone layer depletion arose when the annual graphics on the concentrations of chlorofluorocarbons in the terrestrial atmosphere and the graphics about the destructive activity in the ozone layer were compared. The result of the comparison revealed that as the atmospheric concentrations of chlorofluorocarbons are diminishing, the ozone layer depletion is increasing! This does not mean that the chlorofluorocarbons have not an effect on the stability of the ozone layer, but that CFCs have not actually the so enormous importance that we had given to it before. It does not suggest that CFCs have a diminutive importance as destructive agents; in contrast, it means that other factors (man-made and natural) are provoking the spiraling in the ozone layer depletion.
Now I remember that essay where NASA said that the global warming was not detected by them, and that, opposing to what the scientists on ground said, they (NASA) had identified a "global cooling". At the end of the polemics, NASA had to accept that its allegation was erroneous.
But this time NASA is right. Other factors, many of them susceptible to man manipulation and many more that befall significantly afar from our scope, are stepping up the damage on the ozone layer.
The man-made factors are carbon dioxide, CFCs, ammonia, methane, and other noxious waste, including radioactivity.
The natural factors relate to the cooling of the troposphere and with the inner physical conditions of the ozone layer (Stratospheric ice crystals, Antarctic current, and global warming). Certainly, there is an amount of methane and ammonia derived from natural man-activities as harvest and other non-derivative from human actions, as decaying of plant and animal corpses, etc.
The other news is that the extension of the area of ozone layer exhaustion has extended out of the Antarctic limits.
Thus, we have to do something to stop this; but what can we to do to alleviate the damage on the ozone layer?
Five steps for help:
1. Use your car only when it is necessary. The less we use our cars, the less pollution we emit to the atmosphere. Remember that the burning of fossil fuels generates many substances that damage the ozone layer, as carbon dioxide.
2. Do not buy refrigerators or air-conditioned equipment that use CFCs as refrigerant. Seek to this information on labels, or ask directly to supplier.
3. Do not use cleaning solvents containing CFCs or ammonia.
4. Do not use aerosols and do not buy objects made with plastic foam. Send back plastic foams to the sender if you receive those like backfill into your mail packages. The low consume of these products will discourage the manufacturers of plastic foam.
5. Spread the sound. Please, show this to your children, your relatives, your friends and your neighbors.
Radioactive Waste
The radioactive wastes are those generated by the decay of the radioactive elements used in nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors. In the course of 50 years of activity in this field, the nuclear industry has generated so much radioactive waste that it has become in a large problem, specially related with its proper release.
At the beginning, around the 1950s-1970s, the radioactive waste were confined in metallic containers that were released in the oceans, or were buried in deep deposits, far from populated zones and under meticulous standards of security.
What has occurred since the 1970s to date?
What has occurred since the 1970s to date?
Many things have changed since then, at present the costs for the traders of radioactive wastes have surpassed the budget designed for it, of such form that new forms of discharge have been sought. Unfortunately for us, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in route to make legal the free commercialization of the radioactive waste for the manufacture of materials for the building and the assembly of daily household objects. At present, radioactively contaminated metals are being sent for the manufacture of toys, pans, batteries, kitchen utensils, and many more domestic items.
What is the Problem?
A good number of scientists think there is not a minimum sure dose of radiation absorbed by man (ram). This idea is supported by the observations performed in persons that have been in contact with radioactive material, whether it is a smaller or a greater level of rams.
Which are the Effects of Ionizing Radiation in Human Beings?
The exposure to ionizing radiation intensifies the danger of cancer, fetal deformities, mutations, immunity deficiencies, and burns. Radiation also reduces the natural life. The injuries from radioactivity are typically irreversible and always lead to death. Embryos, fetuses, children and elderly deal with the maximum peril.
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