Thursday, October 15, 2009

Why should you worry about climate change?

justA famous American guitar-ballad musician, George Benson, once sang a hit song about hindsight being in twenty-twenty vision - yes, 'had I known...' always comes after the realization of a mistake or misstep.

So, this post is for your information, so that, in being forewarned, you would become fore armed with greater awareness, so to speak - a word is enough for the wise.

Ha-ha... Now that the theatrics are done and out of the way, we can get down to the business of talking about the potential health problems from climate change phenomena.

Simply put, climate change can result in global warming from a combination of such factors as the emission of greenhouse gases, environmental pollution, and so on.

The resulting atmospheric heating effect leads to strange weather phenomena, melting of the polar ice caps, flooding and other devastating natural disasters.

In order to mitigate some of these possibilities, some people have invented very innovative ways to detect illegal toxic waste pollution sites and increasing the chances of apprehending the perpetrators of such heinous environmental crimes.

In other scientific developments, this is a warning about the unknown possible effects of nanomaterials - materials with a size on the same scale as the width of a human hair divided ten thousand times - on the users of such products like sunscreens and industrial adhesives.

The basic lesson from the above is: ".....Little is known about whether substances engineered at the nano scale persist and accumulate in the environment in unusual and potentially harmful ways.....people to avoid sunscreens containing nano-forms of zinc oxide....."

Now, if you think that is nothing to worry about, you can just think again. Take this, for example, did you know that a sprinkling of carbon nanotubes on synthetic soil makes tomato plants sprout and grow faster?

Sounds wonderful, right? Unfortunately, some scientists warn that such carbon nanotubes may have a similar effect in our bodies - from eating such food - as asbestos fibers would, while others think that the fast growth of plants in natube growth media is quite abnormal.

The latest source of worry, in my humble opinion, is the fact that NASA has bombed the moon in order to find out the stuff of which its hidden south pole is made of - ostensibly in order to drill for water to quench the thirst of its future colonizers from Earth.

Preliminary results show that there was a flash after the first of the two serial hits - both faster than twice the speed of a bullet - and there was no upshot of debris into the sunlight as expected.

What have they done now? Since there was a flash - and not a splash - after the first bombing of the remote lunar surface, it means that the hydrogen detected was not in the form of water, I think. Drink at your own peril...

Honestly, I am surprised that recently Greenpeace only stormed the roof of the bastion of British democracy - the House of Parliament - to protest about the need to shout from the roof tops for more attention to be paid to climate change.

Now, I am protesting about the potential climate change on the moon from this exploratory but reconnaissance bombing mission - yes, the use of planes at the destroyed World Trade Center in New York City on 9/11 proved conclusively, if infamously, that flying craft are potential bombs.

What if other national space agencies followed suit - what will be the ultimate fallout on Earth? Is there a probable reason why everyone is hitting on the moon now?

What if there is no water anymore but only lunar hydrogen in a yet-unknown form - better suited as rocket fuel?

Since the ocean tides ebb and flow with the moon, what if there is a relationship between the store of expectantly frozen hydrogen on the moon and the availability of water on Earth?

Anyway, let's just wait and see how it shall go with the United Nations and climate change this year at Copenhagen in December...

UPDATE - Saturday, October 17, 2009:

More upshoots regarding the nearly $80 million 2-tonne bombing of the moon. Some interesting facts were thrown up as follows: