Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 8 May 2023
Elaine Hanford
Retired Professional Geologist & Environmental Scientist; Consultant & Freelance Technical Editor; Consultant Family History e-Search
Migration of tax payers and businesses within the US from state to state
· https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-blue-state-exodus-accelerates/ar-AA1auRWB
Landslide in San Clemente, California forces closure of historic cultural center & rail service – moved while monitoring equipment being installed
· https://currently.att.yahoo.com/news/california-landslide-halts-rail-homes-124453203.html
Fauci still pushing cover-up for origin of covid – took semantics lessons from Bill Clinton?
Understanding psychological traits - linking psychopathy, narcissism, and sadism – deriving pleasure from the suffering of others
· Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S019188692300020X
Documents reveal Seattle Children’s Hospital encouraging medical professionals to quickly offer default cross-sex medical treatments to young patients – no mention of mental health services
PFAS forever chemicals detected in Swan Lake in Lemmon Valley, Nevada
· https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/forever-chemicals-found-in-swan-lake/ar-AA1ayRsy
“Chemical or advanced recycling” of plastic emits large amounts of air pollution – FTC setting new Green Guides – latest buzzword “circularity” has no widely accepted definition – converting plastic to fuel is not recycling
· https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01052023/plastic-waste-chemical-recycling-ftc/
· Draft EPA Strategy: https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-04/Draft_National_Strategy_to_Prevent_Plastic_Pollution.pdf
China emits 94% of global annual nitrous oxide production – potent GHG
“Black eye for green energy” – mounting waste as ‘renewable’ wind & solar energy waste goes to landfills
· https://www.cbsnews.com/news/green-energy-waste-problem-used-solar-panels-wind-blades/
Shooter in Texas had previously been deported at least 4 times – at least some of the family he massacred were in the US illegally
· https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/cm/father-whose-wife-child-were-053309921.html
· https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/01/greg-abbott-illegal-immigrants-shooting-victims-texas/
· https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/01/abbott-texas-illegal-immigrants-shooting/
· https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-s-wrong-with-saying-illegal-immigrant/ar-AA1aMfpH
US Southern Border remains unsecured – making an already dire situation worse as border cities declare emergencies – “unprecedented surge” has continued unabated over past two years
NYC closes 4 parking garages deemed dangerous – deteriorated & pose immediate threat to public safety
Massive 1M kilowatt solar & wind project in Tengger Desert in China is now online
· https://electrek.co/2023/04/28/chinas-solar-wind-desert/
Australia cutting new infrastructure projects due to excessive costs
Flooding on the Mississippi River – not expected to exceed record levels
· https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-river-flooding-iowa-illinois-c5f8b1f2e9e0b83e46123470e21dd5d7
DCS drops lawsuit after DRB Commission clarifies ban on frack waste in Delaware River watershed
· https://apnews.com/article/delaware-river-fracking-wastewater-ban-a23a62bb7187665f2f2bfcb32845dd9f
Number of cases of tick-borne babesiosis are increasing in the US
· https://www.huffpost.com/entry/babesiosis-tick-disease-symptoms_l_6447f932e4b03c1b88c989e2
Drinking too much green tea could be harmful to your health – liver inflammation & failure
· Abstract: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/126150
Technological hazard: “Fact checking” has become one of the most insidious contributors to misinformation – warning that AI poses serious threat to our future is not new
· https://ianmsc.substack.com/p/how-a-major-media-outlet-dishonestly
This is beyond the bounds of sanity – choosing to identify as “transabled” and then mutilating body by allowing doctors to "treat" BIID patients by "amputating healthy limbs, snipping spinal cords or destroying eyesight" – what happened to Hippocratic Oath of first, do no harm? – “the next abyss”
Ventilation of covid patients led to deadly secondary bacterial pneumonias
CDC Director submitted letter of resignation – pushed draconian measures & vaxx during plandemic & lead government messaging – inconsistent policies
· https://apnews.com/article/rochelle-walensky-resigns-cdc-f0175f772389e6466d6b449a5ce7b25c
Flying taxis raise concerns about land use and crowding of urban skies – orders placed for eVTOL aircraft that have yet to fly or receive production certification
· https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/flying-taxis-eVTOL-air-mobility-cities-need-vertiports/648841/
Increasing reliance on cloud seeding is not a solution to excessive demand for water in the Western US
New Yorkers call for end to radioactive water dumping into the Hudson River which is already classified as a Superfund Site – Hudson River is used as a drinking water resource
In Oklahoma, Pensacola Dam causes periodic flooding – concerns that floodwaters spread toxic mining waste from nearby Tar Creek Superfind Site
· https://www.eenews.net/articles/toxic-water-floods-an-okla-town-will-ferc-hold-a-dam-liable/
Dust storm in Illinois causes pileup of more than 70 vehicles and at least 6 fatalities
· https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173248690/illinois-dust-storm-car-crash
· https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/05/02/why-are-dust-storms-dangerous/
Romancing the River: Is Glen Canyon Dam an “Antique”
· https://sibleysrivers.com/romancing-the-river-is-glen-canyon-dam-an-antique/
Plandemic dictates caused major problems in the US – “No country’s performance is more disappointing than that of the United States” – those responsible need to take responsibility for their actions
· Report: https://bookshop.org/p/books/lessons-from-the-covid-war-philip-zelikow/19208799?ean=9781541703803
· https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/don-t-let-the-covid-tyrants-rewrite-history/ar-AA1aGh4X
Irony: Covid outbreak at CDC event – several people tested positive so those are counted as “cases”
WHO and the US end covid public health emergency – plandemic starting from the Wuhan Lab
· https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/who-declares-end-to-covid-global-health-emergency/ar-AA1aMTY7
Visualizing the biomass of all mammalian life
· https://www.visualcapitalist.com/biomass-of-mammals/
Personal care and household products commonly contain known toxic chemicals – carcinogens, reproductive toxicants and developmental toxicants
· https://phys.org/news/2023-05-tons-toxic-chemicals-consumer-products.html
· Paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c07247
Covid investigator fired by WHO for sexual misconduct
· https://www.yahoo.com/news/fires-scientist-led-covid-search-100431388.html
Yellowstone “2023 State of the Park” report
· https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2023/04/yellowstone-national-parks-state-park-report
· Report: https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/management/upload/State-of-the-Park-2023-Web.pdf
Ubiquitous cigarette butts leak deadly toxins into the environment
· https://phys.org/news/2023-05-cigarette-butts-leak-deadly-toxins.html
· Paper: https://microplastics.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s43591-022-00050-2
· Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722083607
New report on “low carbon” nuclear energy – just have to cope with nuclear waste
· Download Report: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26630/laying-the-foundation-for-new-and-advanced-nuclear-reactors-in-the-united-states
Adirondack Road Salt Reduction Task Force reporting “success” & Adirondack Park Agency addressing use of herbicide to kill invasive Eurasian watermilfoil
· https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2023/05/road-salt-reduction-towns.html
Work underway on “test section” lining the Fernley Canal with concrete – residents will lose groundwater recharge that has been ongoing for more than 100 years
Uncontrolled illegal immigration at Southern Border continues impacts across the US
Destroying our education system and the current generation of children
California can no longer afford to pay reparations under prior state eugenics laws
A moral and ethical question – treating “transgender toddlers” at University of North Carolina medical schools
Spending estimated $50 Trillion in attempt to achieve “net zero” will not really impact global climate – “force feeding of an incredibly radical set of policies…to achieve…benefits…that cannot be measured”
Evolutionary origins of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria that causes cholera - Vibrio cholerae
· https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/988398
· Paper: https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1010490
Draconian lock-down measures of the plandemic have had major consequences for the economy, society and mental health leading to riots, increased crime, inflation, civil strive and meltdown of social fabric