Scurvy Story: Why You Should Believe 97% Of Climate Scientists, Not Long-Wrong John Christy
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/02/21/3314301/scurvy-wrong-john-christy-climate/
Comment:
I am not a climate scientist, I do not know if the globe is warming but I do know the globe is being polluted beyond what we may one day be able to fix...
I would like someone to deny that?
List of environmental disasters caused by humans
As of 2013, the Fukushima nuclear disaster site remains highly radioactive, with some 160,000 evacuees still living in temporary housing, and some land will be unfarmable for centuries. The difficult cleanup job will take 40 or more years, and cost tens of billions of dollars.[5][6]
Seveso disaster, 1976 - Release of dioxin. No immediate human deaths. Within two years over 80,000 animals had been slaughtered.
Amoco Cadiz oil spill, 1978 - the vessel broke in two, releasing its entire cargo of 1.6 million barrels (250,000 m3) of oil.
Ok Tedi environmental disaster, 1984. As of 2006, mine operators have discharged about two billion tons of tailings, overburden and mine-induced erosion into the Ok Tedi river system. About 1,588 square kilometres (613 sq mi) of forest has died or is under stress.
Bhopal disaster, 1984 - Release of methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals Some estimate 8,000 people died within two weeks. A government affidavit in 2006 stated the leak caused 558,125 injuries including 38,478 temporary partial and approximately 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries.
Chernobyl disaster, 1986 - The official Soviet count of 31 deaths has been disputed. An UNSCEAR report places the total confirmed deaths from radiation at 64 as of 2008. The eventual death toll could reach 4,000. Some 50 emergency workers died of acute radiation syndrome, nine children died of thyroid cancer and an estimated total of 3940 died from radiation-induced cancer and leukemia.
Exxon Valdez oil spill, 1989 - spilled 260,000 to 750,000 barrels (41,000 to 119,000 m3) of crude oil. No human deaths.
Prestige oil spill, 2002 - spilled over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m3) of two different grades of heavy fuel oil. No direct human deaths.
Prudhoe Bay oil spill, 2006 - spilled up to 267,000 US gallons (6,400 bbl). No human deaths.
Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill, 2008 - spilled 1.1 billion gallons of slurry from a coal plant, covering 300 acres, flowing down several rivers, destroying homes and contaminating water. Volume spilled was over 7 times as much as the volume of oil spilled in the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, 2010 - An explosion killed 11 men working on the platform and injured 17 others. The gushing wellhead was capped, after it had released about 4.9 million barrels (780,000 m3) of crude oil.
Hanford Nuclear, 1986 – The U.S. government declassifies 19,000 pages of documents indicating that between 1946 and 1986, the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington, released thousands of US gallons of radioactive liquids. Radioactive waste was both released into the air and flowed into the Columbia River (which flows to the ocean). In 2014, the Hanford legacy continues with billions of dollars spent annually in a seemingly endless cleanup of leaking underground storage tanks.
Need I go on???!!!
What about pollution??? Can anyone deny that lack of regulations and flagrant abuse by corporate America?
Now we have corporations wanting bulldoze the Brazilian rain forest...
THIS is Pollution!
These are not subjective scientific global protections this is corporate history we are talking about here....
You can add the toxic mile long train wreck a few weeks ago and several massive toxic spills in the last few months...
And recall within a few months nearly the entire Gulf of Mexico ecosystem was destroyed...
And then let's not forget the MANY unreported oil spills happening on a monthly basis throughput the globe...
And the coal fires in Australia that have been burning for a year with no known way to extinguish them.
Even the titanic was carry enough mercury to detrimentally poison the Atlantic ocean still sits decades later unsalvaged by the companies that made the Titanic.
Who will pay for this mercury to be extracted from the wreck?
Taxpayers!
The same tax payers that are being silenced from today's dialogue of heavy polluters so republican politicians can get rich....
