Showing posts with label UV Levels. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 22, 2013

UV LEVELS

It has come to our attention that there are even more ridiculous "sources" of "disinformation" in the latest troll hit piece that made a lame attempt at hiding the dire truth about the UV radiation..
The updated portions are highlighted.

It seems the disinformation agents left out the following statement from the web sight where they got there UV "information"

“The UVB_Meter_Owners group is a group formed to test common UVB sources for keeping reptiles.”
Hope all can take another look at the highlighted section of this article, it makes clear just how low the trolls will go to cloud the truth.

Massive UV Levels Are Not So Easy To Hide. (Even if the disinfo agents lie about the facts) Dane Wigington geoengineeringwatch.org Most have already noticed how incredibly hot the sun feels in recent years. Bark is literally being burned off of trees in countless locations. Plants are stunted, gardens don't produce in many regions, etc. Would global geoengineering negatively affect the ozone layer? Yes
How many lies have we been told by the government, its agencies, main stream media, and paid dis-information trolls. Who do we believe? Do we believe them when they tell us all their readings on UV radiation show everything is fine? Even when we can feel with our own skin and senses the sun is too hot? Increasing UV radiation from ozone layer depletion
Do the "liars" lie about other things as well? What about nuclear fallout? Even after Fukushima blows and continues to spew radiation to this day, and is still getting worse? Do we believe government agencies, dis-information people and all their phony statements and impressive graphs of totally fictitious data telling us everything is "normal"? How about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, lots of charts, graphs, and phony data there, more than anyone could even begin to digest. "Data" saying everything is "safe" from too many sources to list, yet marine life and people continue to die in the gulf day in and day out in spite of everything being "fine". What about the Exxon Valdez? How about the lead that used to be put in gasoline? That was fine till it wasn't. DDT, that was completely safe we were told. "Agent Orange"? Vaccines? Cell Phones? Smart Meters? Safe, safe, safe, no need to worry. The cancers and diseases being caused "are not related" many dis-information people and agencies say. How about geoengineering? Is it really going on? Well, "it can't be because the government says it isn't so". They would never lie to us, would they? Even NASA says the chemical covered skies from global geoengineering are "safe and normal". They have even set up special courses to teach our kids such despicable lies. If UV radiation had gone "off the charts", what might it do to our aquatic friends? Lets start with global plankton populations, the foundation for life on earth. Even NASA says high UV radiation would be really bad for these microscopic organisms.
  So how are those plankton populations doing?
  How about Krill populations? (Krill feed on phytoplankton) (especially good article to review overall is below)
  Wouldn't this effect the food chain if plankton decline?
  What about our larger ocean friends, wouldn't excessive UV show up with them? Excessive UV damage to marine life
Whales getting sunburnt
  What about trees, would anything negative happen from excessive UVB?
  Are we seeing problems with trees?
  What would excessive ozone depletion and increase UV radiation do to us?
  Is there northern hemisphere ozone depletion that we are not being told about by main stream media?
 
HOW ABOUT OUR METERS AND THE MATH? (A direct response to recent disinformation "hit piece" article") August 21, 2013 By Roger Foote, Owner Foote Control Systems Our instruments are brand new instruments used for verifying medical sterilizers, UV curing ovens in semiconductor manufacturing, UV developing in offset printing.
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Both of our instruments are +/- 4% tolerance, both carry NIST traceability.(National Institute Standards and Technology) The meters Mick West shows are mainly used for reptile enclosure UV lamps, a different class of instrument altogether.
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Our scientific grade metering equipment is rated at +/-4% of full scale and the reptile lamp meters he referred to are +/-10% of full scale. That breaks down to a possible error of 8% total on our instruments and a possible error of 20% on the SOLARMETER MODEL 6.2 UV METER. That is a 250% difference in accuracy!
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This is why we chose professional test equipment for the important task of verifying the UV levels, made even more important by the fact that all "OFFICIAL" readings from recognized agencies appear to be completely invalid. Mick West Wrote:
"Now, in space, sunlight is a total 1366 w/m2, which is 136.6 mW/cm2. That's for ALL the radiation, visible, infrared, and ultraviolet.
UV makes up around 10% of that. about 14 mw/cm2
Actual total UV that hits the ground is normally around 3.2 mW/cm2. Most of this is UVA. Hence his UVA readings also seem to be entirely wrong.
The fact that his total UV was higher than UV in space should be enough to prove it wrong, but if you look at just the UVB, its four times the amount of UVB in space. Physically impossible."
Response by Roger Foote: Actually, that number was 1353W/m2 Mick, not 1366Wm2. And, if Mick had actually done his research, he would have seen that the 1,353 W/m2 figure was acknowledged to be a discrepancy in 1982 when they found out the instrument calibration was lower than the actual measurements acquired by rocketry and satellite instruments at that time....
“Other values for the solar constant are found in historical literature with the value 1,353 W/m2 appearing in many publications. It is now generally believed that most of the historical discrepancies have been due to instrument calibration error (White, 1977). Recent satellite and rocket data (Duncan et al., 1982) and (Hickey et al., 1982) have confirmed that the 1,353 W/m2 value was low.”
Roger Foote Continues: We are seeing up to 18mW/cm2 of combined UVA/UVB and at the same instant 7mW/cm2 of UVA. And yes you can subtract the A from the A/B and get a good measurement of B.
How does Mick know how much is actually hitting the ground?
Does Mick have reliable instruments?
Does he take the measurements himself, or cut and paste from the web?
In the pictures he posted, the people holding the instruments are not holding them correctly to measure solar UV arriving at the surface. To do this correctly, one must point the instrument directly at the solar disc and adjust the position until the peak value is attained. In the pictures on Mick West’s disinformation article, those instruments are simply measuring scatter and reflections being created by geological and architectural surfaces. It is also notable that if the SOLARMETER MODEL 6.2 UV METER was in fact pointed directly at the solar disc, it would go into over-range since the SOLARMETER MODEL 6.2 UV METER has a fixed range maximum of 1.99mW/cm2, nearly as low as a recent UVA only measurement we collected on a recent cloudy day (1.52mW/cm2). This instrument, the SOLARMETER MODEL 6.2 UV METER seems to be woefully lacking as an environmental measuring tool. “Stupid” wrote: (who quoted on Mick West’s disinformation article)
"UV meters can get expensive.....but modern units are out there, with NIST Cert. His old Omega unit was likely +10% or more off from NIST standards when brand new.....no telling how off it may be now."
Response by Roger Foote: Sorry “Stupid”, ours are brand new, 4%, NIST traceable... You really assumed a lot considering you knew nothing about our instruments, or the ones you are referring to which ARE +/-10% tolerance when new! They go on to say that they couldn’t find any UV meter made by Omega... A simple search would yield:
And this is our UV A/B meter:
Again, neither meter is old, both are brand new, and both are at 4% accuracy with NIST traceability. And there are more of these UV513AB meters going on line as we speak around the globe. Of the people already reporting their findings using the UV513AB, all of them are reporting readings of composite UVA/UVB that are in line with readings we have collected. Ours are somewhat higher than average since we are in an area where UV readings tend to be higher. Mick West’s disinformation article stated:
"His column shows UVA, UV A/B, and UVC. They say they had two meters, so how are they are getting three numbers? Presumably something must measure UV C as well as something else."
Response by Roger Foote: We get those 3 numbers by having one of our meters supplied with 2 sensors.
Here is the meter Mick’s people are referring to:

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http://solarmeter.com/model62.html

It is mainly sold to reptile enthusiasts, not very professional looking either, and I bet Mick doesn’t even have one. Now, about the UV Meter Owner's Group: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/UVB_Meter_Owners/ Mick deleted the first line in their mission statement: “The UVB_Meter_Owners group is a group formed to test common UVB sources for keeping reptiles.” And I guess this line was unimportant as well?
"Ownership of a UVB Meter is not required to join this group. The group is formed to encourage learning about one of the most important aspects of care for our reptiles."
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Roger Foote Foote Control Systems 40 years in wireless environmental monitoring and measurement and industrial controls. 20 of those years in government agency work, 20 years private consulting including precision electronics design and manufacturing with customers world wide.
 
SO WHAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE?
There are articles out there to tell people anything they might want to hear, and agencies that exist to lie about obvious and glaring truths with official approval by their governments. There are "bottom of the barrel" paid disinformation "trolls" that live of their efforts to tarnish the truth with impressive looking charts and graphs. From the fictitious "recovering economy", to Fukushima lies, environmental cover ups, etc etc. Lots of impressive looking data that ads up to total disinformation. Primary disinformation paid trolls have said for years there is no geoengineering, no increase in droughts, no increase in floods, no increase in wildfires, etc etc.

The increase in UV radiation story hit a nerve as we thought it would. This issue is very dire and can not be hidden once widely known. Attempts to "debunk" our data on the extremely high UV levels were expected. If you care about the truth, if you care about protecting the planets ability to continue sustaining life, if you care about our collective futures, do some research yourself. Look at the links above. Remember that you can always find conflicting data, but what does the reality on the ground, combined with available research studies, lead you to believe in regard to who has it right with the facts and who is lying their backsides off? DW      

Dane Wigington c/o KQMS 3360 Alta Mesa Dr., Redding, CA 96002 USA

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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

UV LEVELS RISING

So, How Bad Can It Get? Just when it seemed the negative news surrounding global geoengineering could not get any worse, it absolutely can and is.

We have known for some time that the UV levels were getting rapidly worse due to the ongoing atmospheric spraying. Anyone that is even slightly awake and aware has noticed that the sun feels incredibly intense on the skin. Most varieties of plant life are showing at least some signs of stress in most areas. In many regions, whole forests are in steep decline. And its getting worse by the day.
Although extreme drought and toxic rains (due in large part to the heavy metal fallout from geoengineering) are taking their toll, recent metering of UV levels in Northern California indicate that there is an element in this die off that is far worse than we had realized, an incomprehensibly high level of UV radiation.

With the assistance of a very generous and conscientious individual, geoengineeringwatch.org purchased top-of-the-line UV metering equipment which was put in the hands of a 40-year environmental metering veteran, with 20 years government experience and 20 years as a private consultant. Our findings are far beyond shocking.

From a recent science study on excessive UV:

We are told UV-B is only a minor component of the total solar radiation, we now know this could not be further from the truth. Our recent metering reflects an exponential rise in UVB radiation. Due to its high energy, its potential for causing biological damage to plants, animals, and humans is exceptionally high and even small increases could lead to significant biological damage. There are numerous peer reviewed studies which verify this fact.

 
This is ‘officially’ what we are told about UV

The Results
According to agencies like WHO, (World Heath Organizatin) and a long list of other recognized government sources of UV information like NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), no more than 5% of the total UV reaching the surface of Earth should be UVB. The other 95% should be UVA.

These agencies go on to state that UVC should be ZERO.

What has our testing shown?

UVB – the most lethal form of UV radiation – has now escalated to almost 70% of the total UV reaching the surface of our planet. At least this is the case in Northern California. (This can only mean that total Ultra-Violate  exposure has also escalated sharply, making overall UVB levels worse still.)

In addition, our testing has consistently shown significant levels of UVC which used to be filtered out by the ozone layer, some 100,000 feet up in our atmosphere.

Not any more.

UV is measured in spectral bandwidths. The higher the bandwidth, the more benign the UV; lower bandwidths are more lethal.



Current testing reveals that almost 70% of incoming UV radiation is currently in the UVB and UVC range. (Not 5% or less, as we are being told by all major agencies and their media mouthpieces).
This translates into nearly a 1,400% increase in UVB as a percentage of total UV. If UVA has also gone up due to the same ozone destruction which has driven up the UVB, this would indicate a likelihood that the total UVB and UVC is higher still - not just a difference of ratio with the same overall number.

What are the known negative effects of excessive UV exposure to plant life?

 The Proof On The Ground

In the forests of Northern California, bark is literally being scorched from trees. On many specimens, only a thin strip of bark remains on the shaded side of the tree. Foliage is being scorched with many trees having only a fraction of their normal leaf cover. Many native species of plants are not even sprouting any more. The organisms that do still manage to grow appear miniaturized in some cases.
What are just some of the results of excessive UV exposure to plants?
  • Can stop sprouting of seeds,
  • Stunts growth,
  • Limb die off,
  • Reduced foliage,
  • DNA damage,
  • Changes nutrient distribution,
  • Mutatins,
  • Effects photosynthesis
  • Greatly increased mortality
SOME known effects of excessive UV exposure to aquatic life:
All aquatic life is particularly vulnerable to high UV levels.

Phytoplankton accounts for some 30% of the worlds intake of animal protein. Phytoplankton and the microorganisms they consume are killed by excessive UV levels. (Global plankton populations have already been reduced by 40% to 50%. Much of the die off is likely due to increased UV radiation.)
Less plankton = less carbon-dioxide absorption.

Less plankton = less oxygen production. (Atmospheric oxygen content around the globe declining rapidly)

Less plankton = less fish. Period.

Bottom line: A crashing plankton population effects the entire food chain and all life on earth.
Excess UV kills coral reefs. So do waters warmed and made acidic by CO2 fallout. (Reefs are the nurseries of many crucial aquatic species and are in sharp decline around the globe.)
SOME of the known effects of excess UV on humans:
  • Damaged immune system,
  • DNA damage
  • Damages sight
  • Causes various forms of cancer
 Geoengineering Aerosols Destroy The Ozone Layer
This is not speculation, it is fact. There is a mountain of science data that confirms the ozone decimating effect of sunlight-reflecting particulates in the upper atmosphere. As geoengineering climate modeler Ken Caldeira warned after crunching the numbers for Dr. Edward Teller’s aerosol “sunscreen”, the resulting rapid cooling of the stratosphere causes the formation of huge ice clouds that attract and concentrate ozone-destroying chemicals.

In addition, high nitrogen oxide emissions from fleets of aerosol-spreading jet tanker aircraft – and more than 93,000 daily airline flights – directly attack Earth’s protective ozone layer.

Though many of these “science studies” do not admit geoengineering is already going on, this fact is not hard to confirm for any that do even the slightest investigation. Numerous references are posted
below this article.

 At A Crossroad
The gravity of our collective crisis cannot be overstated. Current UV metering makes clear we are now being exposed to dangerously high levels of UV radiation, specifically UVB and UVC.
The metering performed in Northern California, on which this statement is based, was done by a pair of identical state-of-the-art, brand-new, science-grade meters guaranteed to be scientifically calibrated to a range within 4%. As stated earlier in this article, the tech who did this metering is a 40- year veteran in environmental measurement and interpretation.

Here in Northern California, we are already seeing frighteningly visible damage to foliage, trees, and plants. The ramifications of extremely high UV levels to all life forms – including us – are grave. As the die-off of other species go, so will we. We are in the 6th Great Mass Extinction – right here, right now! (References below)

If geoengineering continues unabated, and the ozone layer is completely destroyed, it will be game over for us all. No ozone layer = no life on Earth.

It’s that simple.
  • Global geoengineering is tearing apart the entire fabric of life on our planet.
  • Geoengineering is poisoning our air, waters, and soils.
  • Geoengineering is pushing increasingly erratic atmospheric processes resulting from human-propelled climate change past the Chaos threshold into unpredictable, self-reinforcing, cascading events.
  • Geoengineering is disrupting the jetstream and all natural weather patterns, which in turn is fueling catastrophic climate feedback loops – the most dire of which are mass methane hydrate releases from the Arctic tundra and seafloor.
  • Geoengineering is destroying the stratospheric solar radiation shielding, which protects all life on Earth.
Alarmism?

Do your own honest investigation and find out.

Global awareness of these lethal programs is rising quickly, but not fast enough. Its up to all of us to help shine the light on this life-or-death issue.

Every day counts.

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REFERENCES

From Harvard Magazine
Harvard scientist
The Science paper notes that loss of ice in the Artic threatens to release significant amounts of carbon dioxide and methane from the soils of Siberia and Northern Alaska, potentially accelerating climate change. The researchers also note that an increasingly cited remedy for climate change—geo-engineering the climate by launching sulfate particles directly into the atmosphere in order to reflect sunlight away from Earth—would accelerate the process of ozone loss by increasing the reactive surface area for the conversion of chlorine to free radical form, as was observed after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991.
From EPA
UVB: a band of ultraviolet radiation with wavelengths from 280-320 nanometers produced by the Sun
UVB is a kind of ultraviolet light from the sun (and sun lamps) that has several harmful effects. UVB is particularly effective at damaging DNA. It is a cause of melanoma and other types of skin cancer. It has also been linked to damage to some materials, crops, and marine organisms. The ozone layer protects the Earth against most UVB coming from the sun. It is always important to protect oneself against UVB, even in the absence of ozone depletion, by wearing hats, sunglasses, and sunscreen. However, these precautions will become more important as ozone depletion worsens. NASA provides more information on their web site.
 UVC: a band of ultraviolet radiation with wavelengths shorter than 280 nanometers
UVC is extremely dangerous, but it is completely absorbed by ozone and normal oxygen (O2). NASA provides more information on their web site.
GEOENGINEERING WOULD DESTROY THE OZONE LAYER
A Geo-engineering conference was held in Canberra this week see here. ‘Geo-engineering’ is taking radical steps to dramatically and rapidly cool the planet. One of the ideas being discussed at the conference is to fire sulfa particles into the atmosphere, one professor has spoken out about this:
Professor David Karoly, of the University of Melbourne’s School of Earth Sciences, says another ‘pie in the sky’ solution is to shoot sulfur particles in the atmosphere to shield the earth from the sun.
He says that would destroy the ozone layer.
“Ozone depletion would cause more UV radiation which would cause skin cancers – killing people,” he said.
“We know the mechanism for this, because it’s the process that affects the Antarctic ozone hole.”
Source: ABC Rural | 27/Sep/2011
- See more at: http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/realityzone/UFNscientistOpposesGeoengineering.html#sthash.neDLCzuY.dpuf
More references, geoengineering destroys the ozone layer
http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-programs-continue-to-destroy-ozone-layer/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/geoengineering-chemtrails-shredding-ozone-layer-daily-putting-all-life-on-earth-at-risk.html
http://www.thomhartmann.com/forum/2012/07/professor-geo-engineering-climate-change-solution-would-destroy-ozone-layer-and-kill-p
6th mass extinction is now
http://www.mysterium.com/extinction.html
http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontiers/eldredge2.html
No ozone layer, no terrestrial life on earth
http://www.theozonehole.com/atmosphere.htm
UV resistant genetically modified crops
http://www.academia.edu/171138/Countering_UV-B_stress_in_plants_Does_selenium_have_a_role
Global aerosol depth loop (off course this source does not mention the main source of atmospheric aerosols, global geoengineering)
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps/view.php?d1=MODAL2_M_AER_OD
From a recent science study on excessive UV.
Although UV-B is only a minor component of the total solar radiation (less than 0.5%), due to its high energy, its potential for causing biological damage is exceptionally high and even small increases could lead to significant biological damage.
Excessive UV effects on phytoplankton.
http://www.photobiology.info/Hader.html
Human health and ecological consequences of ozone depletion.
http://eesc.columbia.edu/courses/v1003/lectures/ozone_health/
Excessive UV effects on ecosystems
http://www.grida.no/publications/vg/ozone/page/1389.aspx
Excessive UV effects plant development/growth
http://www.agriculturejournals.cz/publicFiles/52840.pdf
Excessive UV effects plant growth
http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5525557_effects-radiation-plant-growth-development.html
Excessive UV and plant growth
http://zebu.uoregon.edu/text/UV
Excessive UV and plant growth
http://www.google.com/#q=excessive+uv+affects+plant+respiration&spell=1&sa=X&ei=GkXtUcLdCYrgyQGRnoHgDQ&ved=0CCgQBSgA&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.49478099%2Cd.aWM%2Cpv.xjs.s.en_US.c75bKy5EQ0A.O&fp=fc20d2414f75fc3c&biw=1442&bih=874
Plankton produces 50% of earths oxygen
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/06/0607_040607_phytoplankton.html
Plankton populations down 40%
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=phytoplankton-population
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