Posted on 03/17/2011 2:14:18 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
There it is as the lead story on the Drudge Report this morning: UN: `Plume’ To Hit US Friday.
The scare tactics employed by the world’s largest bureaucracy, the scandal-ridden United Nations, make Frankenstein look like a choir boy.
“A United Nations forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific, (is there any other way to fly?) and touching the Aleutian islands on Thursday before hitting Southern California late Friday.” (Drudge, via New York times, March 16, 2011).
First we get to read about the deadly “plume” coming this way.
But in paragraph two that “Health and nuclear experts emphasize that radiation in the plume will be diluted as it travels
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Thanks for the personal ping AFTR...
BTW... you’re the first to know that I will be releasing my new line of Vegetables that glow in the dark this coming fall
Just as I thought and good enough for me. I've resolved to stop weeping, moaning and sitting in ashes while wearing sackcloth. There are those, though, who will worry themselves into a state of high anxiety over something that is likely inconsequential and beyond anyone's control. So, I say to those angsters, "Worry on while I rest."
You must leave the state and never come or look back...only Conservatives are immune to the deadly effects of the glowing radiological ions. Leave the state to the Conservatives to suffer the bountiful farmland, mild climate and unlimited opportunities in the absence of Liberal and Progressive policies screwing it all up.
(We can dream can't we.:))
Well I notice that Barry is hitting the road just in time.
I’ll fill in the gaps during the winter, although you may have to send me a few rads to make them glow.
Nice, but where would they all go?
Mexicans especially susceptible to radiation should flee to their home country and never return in order to remain alive!
If anyone has seen the animation, they need to read the legend on the animation. (You can see it at http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/science/plume-graphic.html?ref=science if you wish to soil your browser with the New York Times...it says:
“Relative levels of radiation-arbitrary units”
Now come on. There is plenty to be concerned about here, but that animation is just silly as the author from Canada Free Press points out. If one wants to use it as a tool to look at air currents, that is probably fine, but the units mean absolutely nothing.
Actually, I give the people who posted the graphic originally (not the author above, who ridicules it) some miniscule points of credit (If I wasn’t so certain that they wrote it this way intentionally, which I am sure they did) on behalf of anyone who reads to the very end of that article: “Health and nuclear experts emphasize that any plume will be diluted as it travels and, at worst, would have extremely minor health consequences in the United States.”
Well, I don't know that South America is the ideal place to be, considering the possible Earthquake activity over the next few weeks as the Moon makes it's closest approach to the Earth (in 18 years) and then pulls away.
LOL. Damn, I live on the EAST coast...what am I to do?
Gee Canada, don’t you have a reactor leaking right now too?
But, but, but BO said the radiation won’t reach the United States????? He did so he must be right...... /sarc
No kidding. They've already ruined Las Vegas.
"...A forecast by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization shows how weather patterns this week might disperse radiation from a continuous source in Fukushima, Japan..."
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