The symbolic Doomsday Clock, which indicates how close our planet is to complete annihilation, is now only 100 seconds away from midnight.

Wake up people, we are fast running out of time!!!

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51213185

One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years!!!

Our corrupt Australian government is giving the city people what they want today, at the cost of our children's lives tomorrow!!!

Are you all going to sit on the fence & let this happen, or are you going to rise up & take control?

The human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder, wider and sooner than previously believed, according to a study that shows a billion people will either be displaced or forced to endure insufferable heat for every additional 1C rise in the global temperature.

In a worst-case scenario of accelerating emissions, areas currently home to a third of the world’s population will be as hot as the hottest parts of the Sahara within 50 years, the paper warns. Even in the most optimistic outlook, 1.2 billion people will fall outside the comfortable “climate niche” in which humans have thrived for at least 6,000 years.

The authors of the study said they were “floored” and “blown away” by the findings because they had not expected our species to be so vulnerable.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/05/one-billion-people-will-live-in-insufferable-heat-within-50-years-study?CMP=share_btn_tw

What steps can we take to protect the environment at home level?

What steps can we take to protect the environment at home level?

1)      Turn off the coal power mains electricity to your home & install solar power.

2)    Use any fossil fuel motor vehicles as little as possible.

3)    Grow your own food (if you are keeping ducks in the garden you will need to use raised garden beds or fence sections off & let the ducks in during off season).

4)   Keep chooks & ducks for eggs & meat.

5)    Free range your ducks in the garden area to kill the slogs & snails.

6)   Start a compost heap in your garden.

7)    Feed all your veggie scraps to the chooks & ducks, or, add them to you compost heap.

8)    Grow fruit trees & bushes.

9)   Remove your water toilets & install composting toilets.

10)Install a grey water system that takes the water from the laundry, bathroom & kitchen into deep trenches under you garden beds.

11)   Purchase & install rainwater storage tanks for house & garden & turn off the mains water supply to your home. If you need to conserve water, use containers in your kitchen sink for washing up & use this water on your trees.

12) Recycle as much as possible yourself as recycling collection by the council may be just going into landfill!

13) Try & avoid purchasing food items in plastic wrap.

14)Try & avoid purchasing anything in plastic bottles, choose glass over plastic.

15) DO NOT purchase or accept any single use plastic items.

16)Choose glass or ceramic containers over plastic when practical.

17) DO NOT purchase poisons to kill weeds. Either dig them up by hand or use urine.

18) Only purchase environmentally friendly washing soaps.

19)DO NOT use spray cans of insect repellent or air fresheners.

20)                       DO NOT burn coal.

21) DO NOT burn gas.

22)                        Install a wood burning cook stove ( & heater if you need to heat the house). Burning wood does create carbon emissions, but not as much as coal, gas or using mains electricity. If you plant trees this should offset these carbon emissions.

23)                        DO NOT use an incinerator; put all biodegradables such as lawn grass cuttings, weeds, leaves etc in the compost heap.

24)                       Avoid purchasing anything that has to be transported by truck, ship or plane.

25)                        Avoid flying anywhere.

26)                       Use a push mower if you have lawns to mow. A better option is to turn your lawn into a veggie garden.

27)                       Purchase second hand where you can.

28)                       Move out of the city & live off grid if you can.
Keith.

The hidden health hazards of climate change

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/health-and-climate-change/11653216

Vote major Parties LAST if you want to TRY & extend the life we have on earth!!!

No matter what any of the major parties promise, you should know by now that WE WILL BE PUT LAST!!! Liberals, Labor & the Greens must be put last on your ballot paper. I very much doubt that we are going to win/survive climate change, because for that to happen, the majority of people would have to rise up & kick the government OUT, & take control of climate change themselves. We would have to form a NEW non corrupt governing system, & that is just not going to happen!

This means that by the end of this century we could be looking at TEOTWAWKI, & into the following century or the next, possibly the extinction of all life on earth!!!

Check out this independent voting score card to see who is behind doing something about climate change & who is not! https://www.acf.org.au/scorecard-independent

By voting the major parties last, we may be able to give ourselves a little longer on earth, probably not in Australia, as it is likely to get too hot to survive here, but if we migrate to the Northern Hemisphere we may survive a little longer.
Keith.

PLEASE Don't Ignore This Warning!!!

I realise that most of the people who follow me on this blog already know about the imminent threat from Global Warming, so I am preaching to the converted, but I am making this post on the off chance that others may check this out when they see it on popular media.

Right now nothing else really matters, not gun control, not water pollution, genocide in West Papua or anything else, because Global Warming is speeding up, & it will be an End Of The World event!!!
Not TEOTWAWKI, that implies a change in climate conditions that we can survive with a change of lifestyle, Global Warming will not be survivable!!! There is a strong probability that all life on earth will die, except maybe the cockroaches!

According to scientists around the world we have approximately 12 years in which to stabilise Climate Change, after that, we have past the tipping point & there will be no turning back!!!

No one can predict with any accuracy if it will in fact be 12 years or more, in fact it could be a lot less! Climate Change is moving faster all the time, as more ice melts, more C02 is released. China has closed some coal powered electricity generators, but it is constructing more & is still using coal! Australia is one of the major contributors to Global Warming, we have few people in Australia, but per person we are right up there with China!!!

If you think that this is all bullshit & that if Global Warming was real the government would be doing something about it, you are wrong!!!   The government & Corporatism are corrupt to the core, they are greedy & money & power hungry & they DO NOT give a damn about the common people's welfare! Yes they are going to die too, though they may have the money to extend their lives underground for longer than we can survive on the surface. But by the time the end comes, most of these money hungry mongrels will already be dead anyway, & they know this!!!

The only way in which Global Warming can be stabilised, & I mean stabilised, not stopped & not reversed, just slowed down & kept at present levels, is for a majority of people to take control of this situation!

For those people who still do not believe in Climate Change, look at it this way. If Climate Change is not happening, & we do all we can to stop it's progression, we will have at least made this world, this country, a better place to live in. We still have pollution & contamination to worry about, this is effecting the quality of our drinking water supply & the food we eat. It is effecting the very air we breath. So doing something about Global Warming is not a waste of time & money, we will be making this a better country to live in.

Coal Power Killing Australians.

Hi Keith,

We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday 21 November 2018, EJA will be releasing a report we commissioned into the health burden from air pollution due to electricity generation in NSW. 

This is the first report of its kind in Australia, despite decades of pollution belching from coal-fired power stations throughout Australia. The report has implications for millions of Australians.  

Be one of the first to hear about the findings direct from the author, Dr Ben Ewald an epidemiologist. During November, Dr Ewald will address a series of public forums in NSW. For details and to confirm you’re coming, click on the links below.

Sydney, 21 November, 6:30pm Glebe Town Hall 

Lake Macquarie, 22 November, 6:30pm Club Macquarie  

Newcastle, 26 November, 6:30pm Newcastle Town Hall 

Lithgow, 28 November, 6:30pm Uniting Church Parish Hall Lithgow  

Central Coast, 29 November, 6:30pm Wyee Community Hall
 

These forums are supported by the Nature Conservation of NSW, the Community Environment Network on the Central Coast, the Hunter Community Environment Centre, the Lithgow Environment Group and other local groups. 

As a trusted supporter, we will make sure you have a copy of the report delivered to your inbox as soon as it’s launched. We hope you can join us for the forum closest to home, and that you’ll help spread the word by sharing our events that advertise the forums. 

For clean air,  

EJA’s Clean Air team.  

PS: Don’t forget to share our submission with your networks that calls for stricter license conditions for coal-fired power stations.  

https://mailchi.mp/envirojustice/coal-fired-power-stations-killing-australians-learn-more-take-action?e=cc313e4d84

Climate Change, is this a sign that we have reached the point of no return?!

Across the Arctic, lakes are releasing Greenhouse Gasses & one lake is acting very strange!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/arctic-lakes-are-bubbling-and-hissing-with-dangerous-greenhouse-gases/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.27e56c04efc4

Studies Support Use of Copper Water Bottles. The Benefits from storing water in a copper vessel.

The water canteen/bottle on the far left is made of copper.

https://vasantihealth.com/blogs/news/the-truth-about-storing-water-in-copper-vessels-debunking-the-myths

https://www.copperh2o.com/blogs/blog/copper-water-bottles-and-scientific-research

People Can Handle the Truth About the Environment

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-12-27/people-can-handle-the-truth-about-the-environment

The Fuck-it Point

As I see it we have to keep on trying to improve our own environment, & keep trying to inform others. Are we a minority? Probably, but we are so distant from one another it is hard to tell. Looking at all those millions of people in our cities you wonder if life could ever be any other way for them, how can they possibly change their environment?

We are doing the right thing right now, it may not be perfect, but it is the best we can do with what we have to work with. Like this video says, we have to survive the system whilst trying to change it. Personally I don't see it changing, we do the best we can to delay the inevitable, we teach our kids & our grandkids how to survive what is to come. Governments are corrupt & greedy for power & money & the majority of people will vote for that government over & over again. They don't want to know about global warming, it is too big for them to handle. They don't want to hear about the genocide in West Papua, it is so removed from their lifestyle, their way of life. They are too busy trying to keep up with the Jones's to worry about the demise of a people a world away.

 I think before anything is done to save this planet it will all hit the fan. Maybe it won't start in our countries, maybe the protests & riots will start somewhere else & start to spread. Maybe one day there will be enough people who see the light & say f**k it, enough is enough.
Keith.

Biologists are warning that tiny microbial organisms are being moved around the planet on an unprecedented scale.

Biologists are warning that tiny microbial organisms are being moved around the planet on an unprecedented scale.

They're worried the usually unseen ecosystems will get out of balance in the same way that larger animals and plants can become pests.

With bacteria in our oceans providing most of the oxygen we breathe it could become a matter of life and death.

http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/pm/microbes-on-the-move-could-spell-havoc-for-environment/8951306

TEPCO wants to dump hundreds of thousands of tonnes of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

Please Sign The petition Here: https://actions.sumofus.org/a/japan-stop-tepco-dumping-nuclear-waste-in-the-pacific/?akid=32971.5225671.DyeZk3&rd=1&source=fwd&t=1

Australian Government Secret Oil Pollution.

Demand Answers About Secret Oil Spill

More Information here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/838/233/772/?z00m=29178028&redirectID=2417622523

Join the National Week of Action to let our MPs know: no $1 billion loan for Adani!

Please Go To This Site: http://www.stopadani.com/shift_the_politics?t=YX1w4TLBG&utm_campaign=Join_the_National_Week_of_Action_to__StopAdani&utm_content=17777&utm_medium=email&utm_source=blast

SANTOS, environmental pollution.

Make Your Voice Count: respond to the Santos Narrabri Gasfield EIS from Cloudcatcher Media on Vimeo.

Contamination in Australian water & foods.

Australia

(Click the web browser refresh button to see the latest reports. Date Formatting is Day/Month/Year - 11th March 2011 is 11.03.2011.) March 2015 - Tuna Contamination Report,
This incident reportedly happened six months ago, and unfortunately there was no available sample to test.
In late March I received this email from a contact who has a Geiger counter.
I have removed some information from the correspondence to protect the contacts anonymity.
“You have to watch your food like a hawk. My daughter had some tuna in oil….very small tin. I had been warning her. But dad is crazy. I found the tin going into the recycle, it still had a bit of oil in it. So, me being me, I got out my geiger counter and took a reading………it went ballistic.
It just keep climbing and climbing. I didn’t think it was going to stop……It stopped climbing when it hit 38K counts per minute….I didn’t know my bGeigie Nano meter went that high. The oil seemed OK, the tin seemed OK, but a tiny flake of leftover tuna the size of a match head was on the lip of the tin, that is what set it off. Don’t eat ANYTHING from the sea….anymore. That tuna was toxic radioactive nuclear waste, and not food.”
38K counts per minute would be around 1000 times background, using this model Geiger counter!
I sent this email to get more information on this very high detection.
Do you still have the sample?
If you are located in Australia, and still have the sample, I could test it, if you posted to me.
If you don’t have it, if you provide the information below, I may be able to source some here, and test it.
In what country was the tuna tinned?
In what country was it purchased?
Here is the reply to my email query.
This happened over 6 months ago.
I can only assume it was canned in the USA. tuna in oil. At that time I thought the reading was coming from the oil in the tin….I didn’t notice the flake that was on the outside top edge of the can. I got it stuck on my finger and washed it off. After this, is when I couldn’t get a reading from the tin or the oil again. I realized that the flake which was gone down the drain by then was the cause.
I thought my Geiger counter was malfunctioning at the time, which it never has before or since. The count was going up and it freaked out my son as we watched it climb. The highest reading I have ever gotten until then was 164 CPM off of a milled piece of pine, but at that time I was (and still am) learning how to use the geiger counter.
Comment:
A small number of tests on different brands of tinned tuna have been conducted here recently, and over the last couple years. There was nothing to report from these tests. This is only one community testing lab, and each test takes 24 hours, or more. A large variety of mainly Australian food products have been tested, so statistically the number of tinned tuna tests conducted here at this stage is very small.
It obvious more widespread community and government food testing needs to be conducted.
08.03.2014 - Proven: Pilliga groundwater contaminated by Santos CSG
Extracts:
Documents obtained by The Wilderness Society show that groundwater in the Pilliga has been contaminated by Santos CSG operations.
Uranium levels recorded in the groundwater as a result of CSG activities are at 20 times the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines.
The NSW EPA have confirmed the contamination event, but failed to act with any proper legal force, choosing to fine Santos only $1,500 dollars.
On Friday, EPA chief environmental regulator Mark Gifford confirmed the contamination was caused by water leaking from the pond and that lead, aluminium, arsenic, barium, boron, nickel and uranium had been detected in an aquifer at levels ”elevated when compared to livestock, irrigation and health guidelines’
Comment By Lock the Gate:
Uranium levels recorded in the groundwater as a result of CSG activities are at 20 times the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines. It is the nightmare that the communities of the north west dreaded, and we hope that the contamination is contained and does no harm. Groundwater is the lifeblood of towns and rural businesses and the worst fears of local farmers are being realised.
http://www.lockthegate.org.au/proven_groundwater_contaminatedhttp://www.smh.com.au/environment/santos-coal-seam-gas-project-contaminates-aquifer-20140307-34csb.html
26.09.2013 - Detection of Radon-220 in the rain
http://sccc.org.au/detection-of-radon-220-in-the-rain-september-2013
20.09.2013 - “Contaminated seawater reaches the east coast of Australia and Indonesia,” Japan Meteorological Research Institute.
Comment:
It is important to read the PDF presentation to fully understand the dynamics of this. (Link provided below)
http://fukushima-diary.com/2013/09/japan-meteorological-research-institute-contaminated-seawater-reaches-the-east-coast-of-australia-and-indonesia/http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Meetings/PDFplus/2013/cn207/Presentations/1028-Aoyama.pdf
09.09.2013 - Detection of radioactive Iodine I-129 in roof gutter moss Australia.
http://sccc.org.au/detection-of-radioactive-iodine-i-129-in-roof-gutter-moss-australia
October 2012, Impact on Australia from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident
1. Food imported from Japan, page 22.
2. Family living in Fukushima for 150 days, page 32.
3. Vehicles and Military aircraft, including American helicopters, page 28.  (They appear to be using measurements of square centimeters cm2 instead of per square meter m2, so multiply by 10,000 to get the Bequerel per square meter amount.)
4. Mutton Birds Tasmania, page 36.
http://www.arpansa.gov.au/pubs/technicalreports/tr162.pdf
11.09.2011 - Silent Storm atomic testing in Australia
Extracts:
Australia’s milk supply? From 1957 to 1978, scientists secretly removed bone samples from over 21,000 dead Australians as they searched for evidence of the deadly poison, Strontium 90 - a by-product of nuclear testing.
Official claims that British atomic tests posed no threat to the Australian people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDOUeniCNKM

More information here: http://www.sccc.org.au/pages/The-Food-Lab.html#Australia

Australia/Ukraine nuclear deal — because Fukushima turned out so well !!!

— ‘A uranium sales deal between the country that fuelled Fukushima and the one that gave the world Chernobyl doesn’t sound like a good idea.’

~ Dave Sweeney

EARLIER this week, without much fanfare, the Federal Parliamentary Treaties Committee recommended the conditional ratification of the nuclear co-operation agreement with Ukraine — a plan initiated by Tony Abbott and advanced by Julie Bishop.

At first glance, a uranium sales deal between the country that fuelled Fukushima and the one that gave the world Chernobyl doesn’t sound like a good idea.

And all the subsequent glances confirm that it’s not.

There are serious and unresolved nuclear security, safety and governance concerns with the plan — putting more unstable nuclear material into a deeply politically unstable part of the world, that is experiencing active armed conflict, is force-feeding risk.

In a recent ABC report, the Ukrainian ambassador to Australia, Dr Mykola Kulinich, observed that the renewed violence in Ukraine could be a “precursor to something much worse”.

 https://nuclear-news.net/2017/02/15/australiaukraine-nuclear-deal-because-fukushima-turned-out-so-well/

Time for global action on Earth’s great threat – Fukushima’s spreading ionising radiation

Federal Government says that the radioactive levels within it are “within safe limits”? Are we going to continue to label people like myself (of which there are many) as “conspiracy theorists” and uneducated alarmists who have been expressing concern over the Fukushima catastrophe since it occurred — people like me who know from objective observed and scientific fact that all is not well with what is going on (or not going on) at Fukushima?

https://antinuclear.net/2017/02/24/time-for-global-action-on-earths-great-threat-fukushimas-spreading-ionising-radiation/

The News That Matters about the Nuclear Industry. Fukushima 2017.

https://nuclear-news.net/category/fukushima-2017/