Thursday, August 11, 2011

EFFECT OF MANY HAPPENINGS ARE FAR REACHING

The Japanese Tsunami cause an Antarctica glacier as large as the surface of Manhattan to break off. The stress caused by a series of such waves was enough to weaken the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, which has been stable for 46 years, causing 125 sq km of ice to break off, a distance of 8679.49 miles..

An article by Andy  McSmith  says: "Twenty years after a blast in the nuclear plant at Chernobyl spread radioactive debris across Europe, it has been revealed that 375 farms in Britain, with 200,000 sheep, are still contaminated by fallout."  Read the entire article here. He further writes:  "After two decades, the legacy of the Chernobyl disaster is still casting its poisonous shadow over Britain's countryside. The Department of Health has admitted that more than 200,000 sheep are grazing on land contaminated by fallout from the explosion at the Ukrainian nuclear plant 1,500 miles away. Emergency orders still apply to 355 Welsh farms, 11 in Scotland and nine in England as a result of the catastrophe in April 1986." 

Joanna Gyory, Arthur J. Mariano, Edward H. Ryan tell about the Gulf Stream   To read about it, click here,  "Part of the Ocean Conveyor Belt—a great river of ocean water that traverses the saltwater sections of the globe—the Gulf Stream stretches from the Gulf of Mexico up the eastern seaboard of the United States, where it splits, one stream heading for Canada’s Atlantic coast and the other for northern Europe and Greenland. By taking warm water from the equatorial Pacific Ocean and carrying it into the colder North Atlantic, the Gulf Stream warms up the eastern United States and northwestern Europe by about five degrees Celsius (roughly nine degrees Fahrenheit), making those regions much more hospitable than they would be otherwise."  For the complete article by Larry West, click here.

Clearly Earth is much smaller than we ever imagined.  Not only does Nature spread it around but so does man with finances, the Internet, atrocities to humans, and so much more. 

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