Radiation: Once Again Ballyhooed As Safe

Wolf Richter   www.testosteronepit.com

It's always the same thing: for decades they tell us that there is no problem with radiation from x-ray equipment or other sources because the doses are so minuscule and so infrequent that it would be like.... Then they come up with some hoary example, such as "a 42-minute walk outside," an example I will get back to in a moment. Decades later, after millions of gullible or option-less people have been exposed to it on a regular basis, a new study comes out linking that very type of radiation and those very doses to some nasty disease.

It happened again—with Dental x-rays and risk of meningioma, a study published today in the American Cancer Society's online journal Cancer. Meningioma is the most common tumor in the brain and central nervous system, representing 33.8% of all brain tumors in the US adult population. The tumor is “associated with neurologic complications” that may include memory loss, hearing loss, vision problems, seizures, and weakness in arms and legs. According to the study, "The primary environmental risk factor consistently identified for meningioma is exposure to ionizing radiation."

It has been known for a long time that high levels of ionizing radiation—such as exposure to nuclear bombs or certain types of cancer treatments—multiply the risk of getting meningioma by six to ten times. But little research has been done on the lower doses that the general public is exposed to. Now the first large-scale study determined that the very dental x-rays ballyhooed for decades as safe are not: yearly bitewing x-rays double the risk of meningioma, and yearly panorex examinations produce five times the risk. Now they tell us!

It's a growing problem. Other medical imaging procedures that use ionizing radiation have sextupled since the early 1980s, and their doses of radiation are usually much higher. A conundrum of weighing risks and benefits, if there are even any discernible benefits.... Because there is now another source of exposure to ionizing radiation. It’s new, and it too has been ballyhooed as safe—this time by the TSA: backscatter x-ray scanners at airport security checkpoints.

The scientific community acknowledges that backscatter x-rays cause cancer, though they argue over the risks, which are between small and tiny. With backscatter x-rays, the energy is concentrated on the skin and the tissue directly under it, rather than being absorbed by the entire body. Thus, concentrations are much higher on the surface of the body. The TSA says that’s no big deal, that during a 42-minute walk outside, you're exposed to as much radiation. The doses are so minuscule, it says, that they pose no health hazard. Like dental x-rays. So, no problem.

But they were banned in the EU. The European Commission, in its press release about new rules concerning security scanners at European airports, included this illuminating paragraph:

In order not to risk jeopardising citizens' health and safety, only security scanners which do not use x-ray technology are added to the list of authorised methods for passenger screening at EU airports. All other technologies, such as that used for mobiles phones and others, can be used provided that they comply with EU security standards.

Ionizing radiation from backscatter x-ray scanners has been shown to damage DNA and cause cancer. From there, it’s just statistics. Put a number on this small to tiny risk and multiply it by many billions—the number of people that pass through these scanners over many years. The product will be the number of people who will get cancer from these scanners. That number will still be small. But it represents real people who will get real cancer.

Yet, unlike dental x-rays, there is an alternative technology: millimeter-wave scanners, which rely on radio waves. Both technologies have limits: turbans, casts, prosthetics, etc. But one causes cancer, the other doesn’t. Those are the risks. The benefits: they’re doubtlessly effective at nailing people who're trying to smuggle their favorite craft brew on board. And they’re supposed to catch terrorists but haven't had a chance to do that yet.

After this morose and possibly ineluctable radiation conundrum that has been veiled in propaganda and obfuscation from day one though the truth tends to seep out eventually, if too late, it’s time for ... more morose news. Beer, this time. But with a happier end. Because there is an astonishing winner that deserves a big cheers! Read.... The Beer War on American Soil.

Comments

[Gully Foyle]

Element

"By this I mean, let's divide the seconds up this way;

360 / 15 = 24

So if we take 1/24th the energy spread over 15 seconds, we have averaged the energy release of a 15 second slice of the Japanese earthquake. And then we can determine the average intensity of a comparable intensity 15 second quake, and typical ground movement we could expect from such a smaller energy shorter quake"

Is that energy an even distribution over that time or does it cycle? If it is a "wave" wouldn't it have peaks and troughs?

Not that it matters in the idea you are trying to get across, the question just arose from the even division of time.

Thank you for going all reasonable sciencey. Far too many people jump at the first lunacy they see.

For the HAARP fans

I always HAARP was used to change weather via high altitude thingmabobbery. How did it suddenly become ground oriented?

[Element]

Yes, that is correct, and I included this to clarify that aspect of it;

So it was a true Mag 9.0, but it felt like a Mag 6.25 ... except it never stopped after 15 seconds, like such smaller quakes often do (and keep in mind, we are talking about a 6.25 at the hypocentre, not in Tokyo or Sendai) ... instead it ran on for over six minutes (and there were peaks and troughs of ground movement within that, of course, as many videos of the event also revealed). Consequently, the radii of maximum shaking and building damage effects was isolated (i.e. not unlike that of a 6.25 or maybe a 7.0 at peak energy release shaking), and the damage remained fairly close to the hypocentre.

[boogiedown]

It doesn't help your case at all when you junk people for the mere mention of HAARP by the way

[Gully Foyle]

boogiedown

Teach you to mention HAARP!

[i-dog]

Thanks for that critique, Element. It should be helpful in analysing Jim Stone’s findings from a geologist’s perspective (though I have had involvement in both diamond and oilfield geological and seismic surveying in the past, so I understand your points and the mechanics of quakes and tsunamis).

My first reading of Stone’s claims are somewhat different from yours, so I need to go over his long page again and look into the sources of some of his ‘evidence’. If I can use 9-11 as an analogy, he seems to be saying that:

• The earthquake is analogous to the planes hitting WTC Towers 1 & 2 – ie. It did happen and it was a natural quake, but the question is whether it was onshore and of about magnitude 6.0Mw, or whether it was offshore and of magnitude 9.0Mw, as claimed in the “official story”? (There were certainly foreshocks in the area, generally ruling out HAARP or nuclear blasts as a cause of the quake on the day).

• The tsunami is analogous to WTC Towers 1 & 2 collapsing – ie. It did happen, but the question is whether it was caused by an offshore quake, or whether it was caused by a man-made undersea nuclear blast – large enough to create a 10-metre tsunami – that was triggered upon detecting a convenient natural quake of moderate intensity in the general vicinity of eastern Honshu? (I am initially dubious that a reasonable-sized underwater nuclear blast could shift that amount of water into a long wavelength tsunami).

• The explosions at the Fukushima Dai Ichi nuclear power plant are analogous to WTC Tower 7 falling into its own footprint – ie. Some explosions occurred long after the quake and tsunami, but there is much evidence that the quake and tsunami had nothing to do with the system failures, the subsequent explosions, and the complete disappearance of one of the reactors.

• Japanese involvement with Iranian nuclear activities is analogous to the damage to the Pentagon – ie. There are political questions surrounding this to which the Fukushima “melt down” may be too convenient and closely related.

I’m going to look further into all of the above over the coming days or weeks to see if there is solid evidence one way or the other.

It took me 6 years to awaken to 9-11, because my chemical engineering background (or arrogance) had me [blindly] believing the “fires made them fall” official story – until a business partner steered me to look at Building 7 (which I’d never heard of in the previous 6 years, or in my earlier visits to the WTC)! 

This story may, or may not, have such a “smoking gun” hidden in it somewhere. I wouldn’t want to jump to hasty conclusions one way or the other without further investigation.

[edit] *sigh* ... I should have looked down to the further banter since your original post before posting this. You seem, to me, at this point of my delving, to be a little too convinced of Stone's "insignificant stupidity" for my liking! The smoking gun is not the geology, but the events and photographic evidence at Dai Ichi, IMO.

[JOYFUL]

tricky, aínt it, staying up with an active thread! Glad to hear that your background allows for a good appraisal of the technical stuff...and very precisely true, it's not, in the end, the geology that matters, but the evidence on the ground! Do let us know your conclusions when back from the badger hole...some time down the line...

6 years huh? Pretty much my own timeline for breaking free from the false narrative....good huntin dog!

[Element]

and the complete disappearance of one of the reactors.

Let's say alleged disappearance i-dog.

I have not seen anyone else say this and I looked at his photos (and frankly, I've got better ones on disk and they don't show a 'disappeared' reactor) of the 'missing' reactor, and I can not for the life of me figure out what the hell he's talking about.

As for his asserting that 'mini-nukes' must be responsible, because conventional explosives and oxidation could never do so much damage ... do come the fuck on chap  ... the guy has no clue.

[i-dog]

"Let's say alleged disappearance"

Indeed. I thought my wording already made that clear ... I've made no judgements at all yet, other than that there appears to me to be a prima facie case to look beyond the USGS and TEPCO "official line".

[Element]

It can't hurt to have a look.

[JOYFUL]

gee El, if I'd known that you were waiting in the wings all this time for your moment I would have sprung this much sooner!

A veritable tsunami of science, possibly irrefutable in it's own sphere! (though that sphere be but glancingly connected to Stone's thesis!) And I particularly enjoyed your closing, with the nice turn around...that we 'deluded nuts' are actually actively seek[ing] to concoct and propagate false conspiracies toward that sort of end, to diffuse any real investigation and uncovering of the actual conspiracies in or midst....

er, I'm obliged to ask what those actual conspiracies might be, of course, but just in case you've already assembled a handy pre-prepared dismissal of deluded nut theories about WT 7 as well, might as well lay it on us and spare yourself and the rest of us the agony of waiting!  

SO, now that we have eliminated from perusal all possibility that Dimona based technology and security companies travel around the globe with a mission of protecting us from our own freedoms, I guess we're safe to settle down and ask the really big questions...

like how come it's no longer safe for us deluded nuts to snuggle in a hot tub, have a quiet paddle on the Potamac, or even walk home from a quiet evening with friends[Breibart?] without those damn 'natural events' of random chance selecting us for extinction, just at those coincidental moments that we have a big data dump ready for disclosure? It's a conspiracy theorists nightmare really, the way our dopey made up shit just keep exploding in our faces like Wiley E's Acme Surplus rocket kit!  If only we'd learn to let yu scientific types take care of it all!

http://youtu.be/sogYgHlNnqo [Donald Fagen\Beautiful World]

p.s. re: " patent baseless delusion"[s]: once yu get yur head around the [scientifically unverifiable] fact that what we are living in at this time is an entire web of patent baseless delusion, it gets a lot easier to sort through the wreckage of 'facts' in search of those nuggets of evidence which get deluged by the tidal wave of irrelevant verbiage used to overwhelm the ugly truth bout what a pitiable state of bondage we have been placed in by the tyranny of 'science' in the service of evil.

3-11 was Japan's 9-11. Deal with it!

[Gully Foyle]

JOYFUL

Dude, did you just tie Jews/911/Fukushima all together in some type of Nuclear black ops hit squad?

Where the fuck are the Lizard aliens, cause I've been breeding cricketts to curry favor with our future masters.

Damn their incessant chirping!

[JOYFUL]

see above for the answer to all yur questions, squire.

n.b.  I have no knowledge of lizards. Big fan of skinks tho.

[Element]

3-11 was Japan's 9-11. Deal with it!

Well given I've just demolished a few of the so-called '3-11' and Jim Stone's key claims and arguments about it, then you'll have to accept that I don't have to "deal with it" at all, or accept it, nor even entertain it as a remote possibility because it's based on seismic fallacies and misapprehensions from the outset.

Why would I, what's in it for me to pollute my mind with his suppositions?

I do recognise that anything I say to this effect is not going to dissuade a 'true-believer' in a baseless over-blown nothing though.

And yes, I do think this is a bunch of made-up shit, which more or less distracts from and somewhat discredits the possibility of the real conspiracies, like the formation of the federal reserve, and other central banks, and the collusion of banksters to wrest control of money of the land, and political power globally, as well.

These are real conspiracies, and they are confirmed all too real. 

I also recognise that weaponised Anthrax came from a US bio weapons research facility on or around Sept-11-2001, and that more than one individual was required to bring that about.  I find this particular fact just a bit to compelling to dismiss when viewed in conjunction with everything else that happened in parallel, at that time.

It screams out that 9-11 was an inside job.

That is conspiracy enough for me thanks as I really don't want to buy into the whole Internet enchilada, of this week's most fashionable conspiracies, because I can not verify much about anything of that sort, and if you were honest you'd admit that neither can you.

Ok?

So it becomes a matter of belief, or else, unbelief.  

Belief without evidence leads to delusion.  But non-belief means you don't know and you also won't just accept shit as a preferred 'operating' theory of interim delusion, until you know better.  I'd rather accept my ignorance, and be open to learn, than willingly imbibe someone else's second-hand delusion and faulty or partial and imperfect analysis.

So you'll just have to deal with it--that I choose to focus on the real maters and that I will query what someone else is making up, as a grand conspiracy that apparently distracts from the real matters of direct importance, and that my professional training and personal experience and observation tell me is nothing short of drivel.

And who the fuck is Jim Stone anyway, that I should become a 'believer' in his mighty word?

Isn't he some douche on the net making up conspiracies at the drop of a hat?

As far as I can tell that seems to be what he does.

[Gully Foyle]

Element

"These are real conspiracies, and they are confirmed all too real. "

Yes there are. But the issue is if there exists a single ruling conspiracy.

My opinion is we have numerous competing groups trying to get a leg up on each other. Sheer greed and shortsightedness and possibly ego wouldn't allow them all to work together toward a common goal.

People stab each other in the back for power all the time.

I just can't imagine the Chinese power brokers in any way agreeing with the Western power brokers except for relatively short term profit. Let alone being involved in some power play giving the Rothschilds and their lackeys total control of the world.

Same way I can't conceive of Christians working with Satanists to control the masses.

[Element]

Gully,

That's reasonable. There can be no monolithic power structure and plan as there is always disagreements and a degree of baseline disorder, mixed in with chaotic developments, of the day.

However, I'd say there is a general organised willingless to plan and cooperate for the mutual gradualist creation of 'fortuitous' opportunities, where they can fore-know of it's nature and potential so are more likely to capitalise upon it, and thus consolidate gains and increase a sense of cooperative bonding each generation, and move ahead on that basis with more elaborate manipulations.

We see this as hystery.

[Not Too Important]

Well explained in "The Creature From Jekyll Island" and "Tragedy And Hope", original printing.

The "Report From Iron Mountain" provides a thorough outline.

[JOYFUL]

I'll happily concur that none of us "know" anything in the sense yu write

But non-belief means you don't know, and also won't just accept shit, as a preferred 'operating' theory of interim delusions.  I'd rather accept my ignorance and be open to learn...

but unless I sadly misunderstood your purpose in presenting what appears to be a very long and complicated apologia for a rationalistic dismissal of all that does not have the blessings of the scientific priestly caste which currently co-opts our conception of what is kosher to interpret empirically from the world around us, you are operating from an assumed base of objective, delusion-free 'knowledge' , such that the very wise and well stated position of acceptance of our common ignorance and opennees to learning is rendered inoperative by the misplaced arrogance common to the serial apologist for those delusory mythologies which are cast in the guise of 'science': seems as though you want to have the the cake n eat it too!

Who is Jim Stone? ...well, he's a guy whose life currently resembles an episode from THE FUGITIVE...on the run from people who would prefer his message to be ignored and forgotten...since you are an aficianado of the alleged Federal Reserve "conspiracy" I suspect that your readings into it's background will give you great insight into how that plays out!
 Why is Jim Stone up yur nose! He's the messenger, not the message...that's my point in saying 3-11 was Japan's 9-11. Deal with it!...deep politics is outside the ken of scientific rationalism, just like Jekyll Island!

[Gully Foyle]

JOYFUL

"presenting what appears to be a very long and complicated apologia for a rationalistic dismissal of all that does not have the blessings of the scientific priestly caste which currently co-opts our conception of what is kosher to interpret empirically from the world around us"

Now that is some crackhead shit.

[JOYFUL]

put down that crac pipe, Gully, an it will all make sense!

[Element]

alleged Federal Reserve "conspiracy"

No, it is not alleged at all. We know it occurred, we know how it occurred, when know where it occurred, when know when it occurred, and we know who was involved, who was present, and how they bought it about, and why they called it the Federal Reserve, and who owns it.

It is confirmed, it is not a theory, it certainly is not merely alleged.

It is a conspiracy.  It is not a conspiracy theory.

Jim Stone is making actual allegations.

I'm satisfied a large chunk of what he says, that which I actually can confirm, or else refute, is indeed refutable, and that those assertions which he has made with regard to seismic magnitudes, damage levels and radii, plus triggering mechanisms, are false or else unreasonable suppositions.

Given he openly cites that these are the factors which initially tipped him off, that something wasn't right with the seismic data, and this caused him to dig into it, and come up with his fabulous conspiracy theory and it's associated allegations, then I'd say he should re-think, and also be prepared to recant.

He won't though, he'll go one with it, against all contrary explanations.

Not that what I said disproves or dismisses all, but is does provide sufficient reason to dismiss those particular aspects, and to call the rest of it into considerable doubt.  At least to my mind it does.  And I'm only ultimately responsible for my own mind.  I spent a great deal of my adult life detecting and unlearning other people's imparted fallacies, and I have no intention of voluntarily accepting more of them.

Israel is a sick, degenerate and horrifically racist state, and I have enough real and confirmed information on that to not require further confirmation, so what Jim Stone offers is peripheral, if it is even anything, including being a liability.  

I don't need or want some swanning great new and dubious conspiracy theory, that may and probably will be quashed by a storm of contrary fact.  In which case, given the allegations Stone has made, it would then tend to call into question all criticism of Israel, and they would certainly make the most of that outcome.

Who needs that?

So I'm suspicious, and airing a warning about this, because it already looks extremely dubious, far-fetched and thin.  

But what I have noticed about the Alex Jones etal., type cohort is their willingness to accept all sorts of feeble and flimsy assertions and to not to acknowledge it when they are wrong, because a few weeks later they're saying stuff that is massively contradictory to all that they claimed prior to be backed by loads of 'evidence', and 'research'.

At which point you realise they don't have a clue and don't care to know what actually constitutes evidence and research.

Maybe its the fluoride after all.
 
Hence, I'm not accepting a damn thing they say, that I can not determine myself, and that which I can't sort out via my own capacities, I'm prepared to leave blank, rather than fill in the blanks spots on the map with imaginary continents and "here be dragons" statements.

 
No slight or offence is intended to you though Joyful, that's just how I see it

[JOYFUL]

Element,

like yurself, I am a confirmed believer in the Federal Reserve conspiracy theory...putting  the word alleged in front of that phrase was to point out that we are all conspiracy theorists, once no longer on the couch, in front of the tv, washing down our daily propaganda with mind altering food additives...

so, to my way of thinking, I've got more in common with the guy who goes off reservation from the official narrative, than the person playing back the accepted storyline....in this case, that Fukushima was a 'natural disaster' augmented and abetted by faulty engineering and inept lawmakers...I'm still not sure what drives you to distraction about J Stone, but at least you have done a good job of explaining your opinion about his reasoning...

an enjoyable exchange....respect.

[TSA gropee]

You did a great job destroying Jim's argument for a nuke induced quake but the rest of his theory is much harder to debunk. Why also would there be a Geneva treaty (1997) banning the use of weather as a weapon including inducing earthquakes? Project Stormfury kind is something you may want to look up as well.

Recent data released by Dimitar Ouzounov and colleagues from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland highlights some strange atmospheric anomalies over Japan just days before the massive earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11. Seemingly inexplicable and rapid heating of the ionosphere directly above the epicenter reached a maximum only three days prior to the quake, according to satellite observations, suggesting that directed energy emitted from transmitters used in the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) may have been responsible for inducing the quake.

Published in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) publication Technology Review, the findings are presented alongside a different theory called Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling, which hypothesizes that the heating in the ionosphere may have been caused by the impending earthquake as the fault line released radioactive radon. This theory, of course, is not actually proven, but is instead presented as a possible explanation for the presence of the high-density electrons and emitted infrared radiation that was observed.

Another explanation for this strange heating — and one that, upon analysis, seems much more likely — is that it was an indication that concentrated energy was used to induce the earthquake, and not the other way around. Numerous credible reports and scientific observations reveal that HAARP technology is fully capable of being used as a scalar weapon, meaning it can emit strong electromagnetic pulse bombs that can alter weather or trigger seismic fault lines.

Evidence that HAARP is not only capable of inducing earthquakes, but that it appears to have been used on Japan

A casual glance at the graphics presented as part of Ouzounov’s researchdata shows near-perfect heat rings present above the epicenter of the quake. If radon emissions from the fault line were truly responsible for creating these heat zones, they would more than likely have had irregular, scattered appearances, rather than concentric circles. This anomaly by itself debunks the theory that the impending earthquake caused the heat patterns.Also, readings from the HAARP Induction Magnetometer, which visualizes the frequency spectrum of signals detected in the earth’s geomagnetic field, show that a steady, ultra-low frequency (ULF) of roughly 2.5 Hz was being broadcast days before the earthquake. The 2.5 Hz ULF happens to be the exact same frequency as the natural resonance produced by an earthquake — and since there were no constant earthquakes occurring on the days before the quake as the HAARP Induction Magnetometer appeared to indicate, the logical conclusion is that the signal was being broadcast to induce the quake (presscore.ca/2011/?p=1624).Some would argue that HAARP is not capable of producing such frequencies, especially at the power levels that would be required to induce a massive earthquake like the 9.0+ that occurred in Japan. But testimony by various governments says otherwise.

On April 28, 1997, then US Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen gave an important keynote address at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and US Strategy at the University of Georgia in Athens. When asked a question about terrorism, Cohen had this to say as part of his response about the type of technology that existed, even back then:

“Others are engaging even in an eco-type terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves” (www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=674).

This admission counters the claims made by some that no such technology exists, and that it is impossible to create seismic activity using directed energy. Clearly the technology has been around for a while, and the notion of it being used as a weapon is anything but a baseless conspiracy theory.

Then, there is the EU report on the environment, security and foreign policy, that was released on January 14, 1999 (www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+REPORT+A4-1999-0005+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN). This report outlines various types of weapon threats, including a section entitled, “HAARP – a weapons system which disrupts the climate.”

The paper explains that HAARP is “run jointly by the US Air Force and Navy,” and that one of its purposes is “to heat up portions of ionosphere with powerful radio beams.” It also states the following important details:

“HAARP can be used for many purposes. Enormous quantities of energy can be controlled by manipulating the electrical characteristics of the atmosphere. If used as a military weapon this can have a devastating impact on an enemy. HAARP can deliver millions of times more energy to a given area than any other conventional transmitter. The energy can also be aimed at a moving target which should constitute a potential anti-missile system.”

Later references to HAARP describe it as “a matter of global concern,” emphasizing that most people have no idea it even exists. This was written, of course, more than a decade ago — and yet not much has changed since that time, despite several pushes to make HAARP more transparent. But if HAARP is truly responsible for helping to induce some of the seemingly natural disasters that occur in the world, it is no surprise that the program continues to be kept largely under wraps.

You can view the HAARP Fluxgate Magnetometer for yourself at the following link:

maestro.haarp.alaska.edu/cgi-bin/scmag/disp-scmag.cgi

[Not Too Important]

What could possibly generate these perfectly circular storm plots?

http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/04/cloud-circle/

There's nothing to see here. Move along.

[Element]

That isn't rain, it's backscatter noise from a weather radar, that you are looking at in those images.

This sort of radial pattern can be caused by several things. 

Over the last couple of years people have also claimed this same thing occurring in Australia as to be a HAARP like system (there are a heap of claims of this sort on Utube)  See here;

http://www.news.com.au/weird-true-freaky/bueau-of-mereology-cant-explain...

But it isn't anything like that, it is interference that creates radial noise returns.

Atmospheric ducting is often implicated in this occurring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_duct

These ducts constantly move and evolve, day by day:

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo_eur.html

RADAR is an acronym, for "RAdio Detection And Ranging", so you also need to understand how radio waves propagate, and also 'interferes' with itself, when physical and electrical conditions are right for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_propagation

And due to the confusion this causes the Australian Bureau of Meteorology now places the notice below at the top of their radar page as a result of these occasional reception interference patterns on their radar loops and images:

"If you notice any circular patterns or straight lines originating from the centre of the radar location, this is due to occasional interference to the radar data. The Bureau is currently investigating ways to reduce these interferences."

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/national_radar_sat.shtml

This 'interference' is Electro-Magnetic (photon) waves interfering, for 'radio' is actually the broadcast and reception of long wavelength photons that we call 'radio waves' in plain speak-- but it's really non-visible wavelenths of light and light 'interferes' with itself, when it interacts with objects and the atmosphere, causing it to amplify and attenuate in betwen the interence bands of the original signals.

Interference

Radar systems must overcome unwanted signals in order to focus only on the actual targets of interest [in this case rain]. These unwanted signals may originate from internal and external sources, both passive and active. The ability of the radar system to overcome these unwanted signals defines its signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). SNR is defined as the ratio of a signal power to the noise power within the desired signal; it compares the level of a desired target signal to the level of background noise (atmospheric noise and noise generated within the receiver). The higher a system's SNR, the better it is in isolating actual targets from the surrounding noise signals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar#Interference

So lots of different things (natural and man-made) can create this sort of interference that defines the ability for a radar to separate noise from valid signals, due to distortion of the wave front of the signal.  For example;

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20100419/fears-radar-interference-thre...

So why does anyone assert HAARP, or something of that sort, has any part in the interference patterns to weather radar signals and backscatter returns and noise?

I'm stuffed if I know - they seem to love making shit up and spread it around, thus doing their best to deliberately muddy the waters, and increase the general tendency in a dumbed-down society to delusional misconception of the world as it is.

And that video at the bottom of your page, of the swirly thingy, ... er, that's call a subtropical low-pressure system. They happen all the fucking time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone#Subtropical

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_system#Low-pressure_system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold-core_low

That any one would seriously try to pass that off as being due to HAARP, or some man-made technology, is just the dumbest fucking thing I've seen in at least 10 years!

Don't try this shit on me again mate because I won't be so patient with you again.

[Element]

I don't deny the possibility of this.   I would point you to seismic researchers who are actively considering all natural Earthquake generation to be always and everywhere induced by "excess" electrons within 'tuned' and massively electrically-parallel 'resonant cavities', created as micro-cracks that are forced apart by electrical repulsion of the electrons present, that is sufficient to overcome the static confining pressure and weight of the rock above and surrounding, to force open gaps between mineral grains (the later 'resonant cavities'), as the resonant cavities fill with non-polarised electrons:

The interesting question is, what happens if somehow these electrons in mutual non-polarised electrical repulsion, were suddenly polarised, and all the force of mutual repulsion was directed via such resonant polarising?  Then the polarisation would instantaneously switch to a super-energetic bi-polar directional form, rather than as a uni-polar (and much weaker NET non-directionality of repulsion)

Well, for one thing ... it could and would instantly (like faster than the speed of sound in the rock) smash and tear the rock apart ... over an area equal in scale to the stored resonant cavities.

Interesting possibility ... no?

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An Integrated Alternative Conceptual Framework to Heat Engine Earth, Plate Tectonics, and Elastic Rebound

- STAVROS T. TASSOS & FORD
 
 
Abstract—Physical evidence indicates that a thermally driven Earth, plate tectonics, and elastic rebound theory violate fundamental physical principles, and that Earth is a quantified solid body, the size of which possibly increases with time. Earth’s core is considered as a low-temperature, high-energy/high frequency, high-tension material, wherein new elements form, constituting the Excess Mass (EM), which is then added atom-by-atom to the overlying mantle. Iron, with the highest nuclear binding energy of 8.8 MeV, should be the last element to form. Due ultimately to cosmic stretching, the internal pressure gradient is from the center, toward the surface; so EM ascends as solid state ‘‘wedges’’, which upon encountering an anisotropic obstacle, then accumulates due to its blockage. Iron ascends in the form of reduced high pressure Fe^2-, to a depth of about 700 km. At shallower depths it then releases 4–5 electrons whilst oxidizing and decompressing at reducing confining pressures. Some of the released excess mass electrons travel as free electrons, and thereby cause microcracks to form when the electron concentration exceeds the threshold of >10¹⁸ electrons/m²; these microcracks enlarge as their concentration increases and their cumulative internal electron pressure builds up; via this self-repulsive electron pressure a great mass of rock is uplifted over time. Microcracks serve both as resonant cavities for ‘‘old’’ metallic bond electrons from Fe^2,3+ and ‘‘new’’ electrons from Fe^2-, radiating at the infrared, and as electrical capacitors, producing effective semiconductor behavior. If and when the concentration of electrons in the microcavity and of p-holes at the rock microcrack interface surpasses the necessary electro-motive force potential, the electrical impedance to electron flow is attrited and dielectric breakdown occurs, i.e., the transient discharging of electrons very rapidly empties the network of cavities, causing an implosive collapse of the regional network of parallel microcavities. This high-energy implosion coerces the otherwise plastic surrounding rocks to respond instantaneously elastically, and an earthquake is thus generated. The same implosion that caused the earthquake can also produce a fault rupture of the rocks if its transient dynamic shock pressure exceeds the rock’s bonded strength. The magnitude of an earthquake depends on the size of the active volume of almost concurrently discharging microcavities. Hence, we are referring to an electromagnetic self-organized criticality, a direct implication of which is the inherent non-predictability of any earthquake’s timing or energy release.

Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 43–89, 2005 0892-3310/05

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_19_1_tassos.pdf

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I am well aware of this research and find it a fairly compelling possibility.

Have a close look at this and Tassos's other papers if you want some clue as to how this can physically work, because he's discussing an electronic means to generate each and every earthquake, that has ever occurred, anywhere (i.e. volcanic and or tectonic).

And if he is correct, or mostly correct, then yes, such 'remote' electrical manipulation via EM is at least conceivable.

But it also means the electrical signals observed are natural, not artificial.

But they could possibly be induced ... if such free electrons are present and EM could add to them, via electrical induction.

[Nukular Freedum]

Well now your just being a spoilsport!

Conspiracy theories are themselves a conspiracy? What nonsense is this?

;-)

[Element]

Sorries, I know, it's disappointing having to point it out, but such is the circular and Machiavellian nature of the rabbit hole.

[Element]

N E W S F L A S H !

Mag 8.9 quake just occurred 35 minutes ago 495km SW Banda Aceh Indonesia ... similar location to the Great Boxing Day quake and Tsunami.

UPDATE: Downgraded to 8.7 Mag near NW Indonesian coast.

Tsunami warning issued for Indian ocean basin areas.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-11/strong-quake-strikes-off-aceh/3944352

Now confirmed to be at least a Mag 8.7, almost the exact same location as the Boxing Day quake and tsunami.

Magitude may be revised upward as more analyisis and calibration occurs from seismic stations the other side of the planet. 

Reports coming in the quake was felt in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Eastern India.

[old naughty]

...so, CVN76 was real-ly sent over to check out Monju, after 311...

hummmmmmm.

[Bay Area Guy]

Great.  I'm going to a new dentist tomorrow.  Because of some health issues over the last two years, I've had to have six CT scans and probably a dozen x-rays.  I told my last dentist I didn't want x-rays and he insisted.  I walked out and so that's why I have a new dentist now.  I'm going to tell him the same thing.  I've had enough radiation over the last two years, thank you, and I don't want more at this time (Fukushima notwithstanding).

I'm sure the governments of the US and Japan would tell me that exposure to six CT scans and 12 x-rays in two years is minimal.  They'd probably tell me ten times that much is just fine and no adverse impacts will be happen.  Well, I don't want to glow in the dark and I don't want to grow a third eye.  If I want to do that, I'll just go to Japan and eat the sashimi there.

[Overflow-admin]

Hey man? You are praising the destruction of the dentists income source! Stop it, listen to the docs and get your scan. See? It's harmful! Now glowing, no third eye. And stop maligning japanese food. Did you know that japanese diet is one of the healtiest in the world?

Oh, I might have a little abused of sarcasm dude (except for the diet if food isn't contaminated). I meant to applause you.

[GoinFawr]

Anti-dentites, all of you.

[Freddie]

Well i hope you get well but uf you live in the San Fran bay area then you have a problem.  Maybe Michael Douglas can do another Black Rain movie to go along with China Syndrome.  A radioactive Hollywood might disinfect the place.

[Curt W]

Japan scientist say "Effects of radiation do not come to happy people"

[Element]

Hey, don't junk him, it's the truth, a senior Japanese Govt official really said that.

[Overflow-admin]

I know, I sourced it in my collection of fukushima debris.

"The effects of radiation do not come to people that are happy and laughing. They come to people that are weak-spirited, that brood and fret."

Name: Dr. Shunichi Yamashita
Profession: nuclear lobbyist/propagandist/bonesetter (sorry, I didn't mean to insult real bonesetters, its just for insulting his title so-called "Dr.")
Date: 10.06.2011 (dd.mm.yyyy)

[Dingleberry]

CT scans are done routinely as defensive medicine, and of course now it looks like they are going to cause cancers.  

[12ToothAssassin]

I understand that CT scans are insanely powerful electro magnets that momentarily align all the atoms in your body. What could possibly go wrong?

[ceilidh_trail]

!2- CT scanners use radiation to obtain an mage. MRI scanners use magnetism.

[Vampyroteuthis ...]

You are exposed to harmless electromagnetic radiation when walking around in the sunlight. /sarc

[StychoKiller]

CAT = Computerized Axial Tomography (AKA CT Scan)

MRI = MAGNETO-Resonance Imaging

[12ToothAssassin]

Yes - thanks for correction.

[Element]

Teleportation ... to a parallel universe ... and into the mouth of a really big shark ... while the guy who should have got eaten ... he gets a new kidney ... on your credit card ... then goes home and fucks your wife for 20 years.

Hey, want a CT scan Mr.?

Just say no!

[Ratscam]

CT scans release heavy dosages, a dentist xray is a miniscule fraction of it. Test with a geiger counter, you get exposure of roughly 80 mikro sieverts per hour for an exposure of 50 milliseconds. In a plane on a continental flight in the northern hemisphere you get 4-5 mikrosieverts per hour for 8 hours, as opposed to the normal background radiation of 0.15-0.3 mikrosieverts per hour
Do your own math what,s better or worse.
If you don,t want to stop flying take antioxidants or smoke a joint, both reducing your risk of getting cancer significantly.
Do your own research.

[Element]

You know I was kidding about the shark thing, right?

[Ratscam]

but not about the teleportation I sometimes hope.... I wanted to refer to the bayareaguy who,s freaking out about a dental xray, after gotten 6 CTs. What a joke.

[TradingTroll]

Dude, you're in Japan. I didn't think anyone in Japan right now could write an article about radiation without using the word Fukushima. In other words, you take a 42-minute walk outside, the rest of us go on a month long camping trip outside.

Get a grip.

[williambanzai7]

I'm pretty sure he is in San Francisco which is shielded from Fukushima radiation according to the US government.

[El Oregonian]

I believe our president has Meningioma... er, wait... That is megalomania. Never mind...

[Non Passaran]

Either way I don't give a crap until I see stats that show increased incidence of cancer