Climate / Environment

Experts say only 49 people died during the Chernobyl explosion. Others closer to the disaster put the number at a devastating 150,000. In a new book, Kate Brown goes behind the scenes and discovers widespread cover-ups At 01:23:48 on 26 April, 1986, 17 employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were on shift. To carry out a routine experiment, they turned off Reactor No 4’s emergency ...

Union Carbide Bhopal Disaster, the US based Chemical giant, was responsible for the killing of 25,000 people in Bhopal, who died due to leaking of a poisonous gas from their factory. Incidentally, the incident is still the worst industrial disaster this planet has ever witnessed, which subsequently crippled more than half a million people. Warren Anderson was the then Chairman of that organization. Anderson was arrested ...

Named for the orange stripe lining the 55 gallon barrels containing this herbicide and defoliant, Agent Orange was one of the most widely-used "rainbow herbicides" of the Vietnam war. But it wasn't just harmful to plants. Soon after it was deployed in Vietnam, Vietnamese citizens and US veterans alike reported crippling, life-threatening symptoms. Agent Orange is a herbicide and defoliant chemical. It is widely known for ...

The day after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration, Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld took the steps to re-apply aspartame’s approval for use by the FDA. New FDA commissioner Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr., appointed a 5-person Scientific Commission to review the board of inquiry’s decision to ban Aspartame. It did not take long for the panel to decide 3-2 in favor of maintaining the ban of aspartame. Hull then decided to appoint ...

JOHN CHANCELLOR, anchor: On clear days, you can often see long white lines being traced high in the sky. They are contrails of jet aircraft. They’re actually long, slender clouds. Other men are finding them especially fascinating because the theory is being developed that those long, white lines may be changing our weather for the better. Details from Roger O’Neil. ROGER O’NEIL, reporting: The exhaust from ...

A US government document on Geo-engineering, 750 pages in length, from a congressional report shows government involvement in the climate. It documents 6 law enactments for weather modification in spite of documentation of increased cancer, emphysema, mental retardation, and many other diseases in high cloud seeding areas. Droughts and flooding, among other catastrophes, air pollution and poisoning of all living matter, and destroying of crops have ...

Parties to the Environmental Modification Convention undertake not to engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury to any other State Party. In July 1972 the U.S. Government renounced the use of climate modification techniques for hostile purposes, even if their development were proved to be feasible in ...

S. 3383 (94th): National Weather Modification Policy Act To authorize and direct the Secretary of Commerce to develop a national policy on weather modification, and for other purposes. Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That this Act may be cited as the "National Weather Modification Policy Act of 1976". SEC. 2. DECLARATION OF POLICY ...

Indonesia invaded East Timor, a small Christian country (predominantly Catholic) and Portugese colony north of Australia rich in oil reserves. East Timor should have won its independence on 28 November 1975 when the majority FRETILIN party (accused of being communist, but never confirmed) declared independence, however an incursion was launched about 3 weeks later, the day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry ...

During the 1970s the media promoted global cooling alarmism with dire threats of a new ice age. Extreme weather events were hyped as signs of the coming apocalypse and man-made pollution was blamed as the cause. Environmental extremists called for everything from outlawing the internal combustion engine to communist style population controls. This media hype was found in newspapers, magazines, books and on television; News articles*: ...