Threats to Biological Diversity and Human Health

The Massachusetts School of Law’s Educational Forum presents part 2 of a Conference on Global Climate Change. The segment is hosted by Assistant Professor of law Kurt Olson with Patrick A. Parenteau, J.D., Professor of Law from the Vermont School of Law and Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri, author, educator and environmental writer.

Topics covered include Making Buildings And Tenants More Energy Efficient, Reducing Utility Consumption, Weather Modification And The U.S. Military, Coal: The Worst Energy Source On The Planet, Toxic Global Issues and Secretly Exposing Americans To Chemicals.

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welcome to the educational four this program
is brought to you by the messages of school
of law at andover here at the Massachusetts
school of law we held a conference to discuss
so the issues facing our world
in regard to climate change
on this show we discussed threats to biological
diversity and human health
our panelists are professor pat current so
professor parental as oppressor of law in
the senior counsel in the environmental and
natural resources law clinic
at the Vermont law school using nationally
recognized expert on the endangered species
act the clean water act national environmental
policy act in other environmental laws
he has been involved in drafting litigating
implementing teaching and writing about these
laws for over thirty years
the only thing scarier actually been reading
the IDP CC’s reports is opening
your 401k plan
right now
do you realize this week
us investors
lost one
hundred billion
dollars
we’re living
beyond
it means
the problem with Clinton
and the problem with the financial markets
is the same thing
you can’t
each your principle
you can’t eat you feedstock
you have to live on the income
from your investments in the income from your
labor
and when it comes to nature
you have to live on natural capital
and what we’re doing to the planet
these were ET
and consuming
the national capital
of the year
all of the environmental problems that we’ve
seen in the past were tiny little
bite sized problems
they looked huge
acid rain look like that
and in movies
contamination of ground water from hazardous
waste sites
look like
hi
water quality problems look
really really difficult
and then we found out about
ozone depleting chemicals that were pushing
enormous holes in the
stratosphere
leading and
ultraviolet radiation causing
Patrick not only with
killers
but with the
the entire natural world
in philly and across the planet
in every sector
of the glow
in places that are clean
and free of pollution
declining
in catastrophic numbers
climate change
it’s the big kaboom
this is that
civilization
one of the first things that we’re going to
need to deal with climate change
he’s a new kind of democracy
a new kind of leadership
it’s going to be the same kind of democracy
in leadership we’re going to need to deal
with this economic crisis were facing
but here’s the difference
we are going to get through this economic
crisis
I know how long it’s going to take
for the markets to settle down for conference
to be restored for the banks to be recapitalize
I don’t know which plan is going to work planning
the seven hundred billion dollar bailout didn’t
work
plan B the reduction of interest rates didn’t
work
plans seat now I hear on NPR on the way down
is
you and I restore buying banks
you have to go back to the civil war folks
to think about what we’re talking about doing
nationalizing banks in the united states of
America
I think that we did that in Russia
but when you start talking about buying ownership
interests in back
pacific time
the kind of leadership that we’re going to
need
confident
reassuring
resolute
disciplined
vigorous
opened a new approaches
dropping the ideology
government is the problem not the solution
we’re also going to have to drop the ideology
that the market is bad
but the market can’t work
if the market can’t be fixed it can’t be improved
because we can’t deal with climate change
unless we have both strong
healthy intelligent
forward-thinking government leadership
and the same goes for the leadership in the
private market
the corruption and greed
that we saw
bringing down Wall street
I mean that
that’s correct
if this is not this technology is hugely important
to this problem there’s no mistaking that
in a moment I’m going to turn to some of the
technologies were talking about
using and some and policies
a are are critical to
%uh dealing with
with the threat
the surpassing threat of climate change
there’s hope when the G-EIGHT get together
and start trying to agree on what can we do
together collectively
to confront a financial crisis that’s affecting
all of us were all in the same boat
the leaders of the world they’re saying
and the same is true of climate change
so we’re in a post he or dole
mode right now the kyoto protocol which we
never ratified
will expire in twenty twelve
killed by itself is is as we say in Vermont
of people in the snow
when it comes to dealing with climate change
but at least it’s a start it was a
%uh %uh a week
in tokyo the start but a start but postino
the next round
of kyoto negotiations
well that’s
the ball game
that’s the ball game
because if we don’t get all the nations of
the world
on board
was an effective plan to deal with climate
change
it’s not going to happen
this year according to the US the international
information agency it authorities China surpassed
us
in greenhouse gas emissions
we were the leader
first place for a long time China has now
surpassed as China is adding to coal plants
for week
to the national grid
India just got a massive loan
from the world and to build a toxin
coal plants
two thousand
nicholas
and that’s
just for openers
we have to have an international agreement
with the developing nations of the world
they’re not going to join
an international agreement until we
the united states
it’s serious are per capita
greenhouse gas emissions is six
times
the per capita mission of China even though
China as I say is now the leader
it’s even more than that minute when you cut
when it comes to India
at the same time
that we have to
the exhibit leadership
I’m getting our own energy consumption
under control don’t talk about it
we have two export the technology
we have a vested interest in China because
most of our manufacturing base
that’s left the united states you’ve heard
all this through the election
season which never seems to end all the jobs
lost all the outsourcing
you know for all that manufacturing base that
used to be in Ohio
Pennsylvania Michigan is
i’ll tell you where it is ’cause I’ve seen
it’s in guangdong province China
that’s for it
it’s for is American
goods it used to be manufactured in Ohio
our nominee faction ground on in all those
coal plants that I mentioned
they’re being built to make the goods that
were levine
so we have a vested interest
in what’s happening in in China
in what kinds of energy systems they’re building
what kinds of coup pollution control devices
they’re installing what kinds of institutional
mechanisms they have to insure that the systems
they’re actually installing are actually performing
because the latest a mighty stud
on the operation of Chinese coal plants suggests
they could be doing
tremendously better
at managing their emissions
then they’ll because they have
institutional capacity in
the country
to do it
but star of coal
fifty one percent of our electricity comes
from coal
the electricity sector is forty percent of
the greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere
call
years
slated to be calm
in even greater portion of our
portfolio
in China in India
it’s eighty percent
but the report for us
cole now moves all over the world it’s a could
world commodity it’s price is set
by demand
around the world
cole from the powder river basin
of Wyoming
is being burned
in guangdong province
and
sold
what do we do with school
united states has over two hundred billion
tons of coal
we’re called of Saudi Arabia of the world
when it comes to coal projections are
we have enough coal
to supply us with electricity
for two hundred years
but we also know
the cold he is the most
CO two intensive fuel
on the planet
and we know some other things about coal
they’re going to make this choice which in
the frame for you
exclusively
cradle to grave
for mining to disposal
they’re is no
energy
source
on the planet
worse
think about it
have you ever seen the pictures of mountaintop
removal
in appalachia
you know where the cold it’s being burned
in new england is coming from and the electricity
that most of us
are getting is coming from
go to the web sites
and look at the pictures
of what’s happening to the communities in
appalachia
the move along
coli cycle
to combustion
Rice said it’s the largest single source of
CO two
but that’s not the only thing it’s a source
of
and so to sulfur dioxide night as nitrogen
oxides
precursors of not only acid rain
but the ozone
precursors of pm to two point five find particles
that very themselves deep in loans
coal fired power plants according to EPA state
of are responsible for over thirty thousand
premature deaths per year
in the united states
in the northeast
from exposure
defined particulars
how about mercury
coal fired power plants largest single source
of mercury
on the planet
what does not for mercury do by a little fires
up the food chain
who’s the and receptor
mothers
fetuses
fetal counts
but not for mercury
are climbing
premature deaths
impairment of mental faculties
centers for disease control has documented
empirically all of these things
and trace that directly to the burning
there are other kinds of the nation’s
move to the disposal
end of the spectrum
what are we doing with coal waste combustion
ways fly ash
and combustion weights
happily toxic heavy metals
organics in organics
toxins of every kind of description
we regulate them as hazardous waste we do
not
we do not
for the same reason we allow mining companies
to blow the tops off of mountains
we’re not about to confront the political
power of the cola the
and regulate their waste the way it ought
to be regulated
as hazardous waste and what’s the consequences
more and more studies showing ground water
contamination
contamination of drinking water supplies
how many times
are we going to destroy a drinking water source
before we don’t have
any more drinking water sources that we can
rely on
even with the expenditure of enormous sums
to try to clean them filter them
treat them
now what do they mean by clean coal
and what kind of choice does it present
what they’re talking about is a new tight
of combustion process
number one
gasification
by G C C
super critical
goes by many different technological acronyms
and names
go to the web sites to find tons of information
on
on all of it
no question about it
the gasification technology if you’re going
to burn coal is the way to go
much more efficient
does deal with many of them
emissions including mercury
a very high level of removal
but all it does
with regard to carbon dioxide
he separated
concentrated
and really sad
to the atmosphere
so if all you did was gas supply
cole combustion you’d make climate change
the only way
if you can’t really call this new process
clean
is if you capture the CO two
you can dance it
you purify it
and you type it
to places where you can put it in the ground
and about a mile or a hundred men leaders
under the ground
finding geologic formation is like the salt
the loans
where there’s a capital R
over the top of it
to keep it there
forever
that’s what they’re talking about it’s called
carbon capture
and storage of sequestration geologic sequestration
do we do it today yes
we do it to recover warming gases called enhance
the woman gas recovery the OR
if we want to burn
all of the coal
the united states
and if we want to burn
all of the coal
in the rest of the world
we’re not talking about millions of times
the CO two
trillions
of times
of CO two
billions just in the united states
billions of times
the CO two
to wait
detective crafts talk about this is it’s is
scaling problem
it’s a problem of scaling up
you know in technology so that they can deal
with
these massive
quantities
we’ve never before
and by the way the oil and gas recovery is
done for oil and gas recovery isn’t done
to trap CO two forever
stone throwing gas recovery so whatever experience
we have and that’s the only experience we
do that
with this kind of the objection is it’s for
a very specific purpose not the purpose for
which we now are talking about sequestration
because the studies show that if you lose
if if there’s a as little as one percent of
the sequestered CO two this case
leaks
you have wiped out
the benefits for the client
of the whole sequestration program
less than one percent
our systems have to be
accurate and verifiable any fact if to a ninety
nine percent
plus
level
of confidence
they need forget things about liability and
what if it goes wrong in whose it
you know those are all enormous
problems and legal questions of people are
are wrestling with but here’s the point
bleak as I may be trying to make this sound
there’s probably no
%um
reason to believe that we’re not
going to in fact burn this school it would
take a
her role
assumption
what does dangerous interference with the
climate
mean to science
ken science tell us
in quantitative terms in a simple clear metric
that everyone can understand what does that
term mean
dangers interferes with the Clintons
and the ITC see labored long and hard in kiev
in came up with a consensus view
we think
we can avoid dangers and affairs
if we limit
global warming
to two degrees celsius this century
even at that rate which is
it’s been pointed out already many
very knowledgeable
credible
sober
scientists have said years
we too high
for irreversible damage the ecosystems honors
and
serious
threats to human health and safety all over
the world
of all the things that I’ve heard about in
terms of impacts of climate change on
biodiversity
it’s this one
oh sure certification
the loading of the oceans with carmen
is triggering a change in the ph
of ocean chemistry just try to get your head
around that
corals
arquette counsel
so it’s destroying
coral systems by destroying their ability
combined
calcium
that’s means all the show
forming creatures
in the ocean are being affected
the same way
all the way down through the food marine food
when
this is an area that hasn’t received nearly
as much investment in in scientific study
at sea level rise
catastrophic wildfires
erosion
flooding
increasing storm intensity particularly tropical
atlantic storms like a tree
place your mail
snow pack no all those other things that reseeding
enormous announces a study
reports come out every day
%uh on how battle that is
but the or ocean a certification problem
he’s not very well understood
and yet it’s terrifying to behold so-called
in sequestration what are we gonna do
are we really left with no choice that’s what
the argument is we have no choice we’ve got
to build coal
or notes
so let’s go to new for a minute
now I used to fight news
but next year at the table there’s no question
about it
if you’re serious you serious about
for stalin
the worst consequences of climate change you
simply can’t
reluctantly party just can’t
if you read the signs
if you take it to heart
you can’t
I don’t care how many problems are with nuclear
power plants the one thing that they don’t
in terms of their emissions is carbon dioxide
there’s no argument about that
what are you going to do with the nuclear
options
the lead time for nuclear plants has tended
to fifteen years in this country
francis seventy percent of the electricity
from nuclear so they’ve made a huge debt non-nuclear
lou in this country
it’s ten to fifteen years to build a nuclear
are there to in it you know
think it’s too expensive to wait wait
beyond cold war boiler natural gas sir
we endorse solar or any other form of energy
they’re just being usually
expensive
and even with that indemnity even with a cap
on liability which we call the price anderson
they’re still a high-risk adventure
%uh it only takes one accident in three mile
island
in the three mile island accident occurred
at the end of the nuclear industry in the
united states of America not a single nuclear
plant was ever put on line after that accident
now they’re starting to come back twenty or
so applications are pending at the nuclear
regulatory commission there will be more
some of those are going to get through some
of those are going to get pell
in a world where we’re told
but the threat
of terrorism
he is one of the highest threats
but we have to face and loose nukes and terrorists
getting their hands on nuclear material is
the greatest of all the dangers
you have to take on board
the increased risk insecurity
there’s going to be required
to maintain a nuclear
fleet of power plants in the united states
and around the world moving all this material
so that’s another tough choice about wind
to just quickly move along
you talk about some
options in a little more
to think about
well we know is that there is enough wind
potential in the great plains of the united
states to me all the electrical needs the
united states
there’s enough wind blowing down through the
great plains where I grew up and I can
but for the fact that there’s a lot of wind
doctor
the party united states
T boone pickens knows that
that’s why he’s proposed one hundred thousand
windmill terms
to what degree lines
he wants an apollo level project apollo program
project to build wind
over the next ten years
Al gore’s speech when he said we can be on
renewables in ten years relies
very very carefully
the UN that you folks in Massachusetts know
how difficult it is to build wind
off the coast anyway
the nantucket animal and martha’s vineyard
in Vermont we have the same thing three commercial
when projects have gone down to defeat because
of vermonters
they’re jealous about the racial lines
but you’re talking about energy supply
and you wanted to avoid all these nasty consequences
of coal and nuclear that I’ve tried to sketch
for you
well then obviously wind is got it be
you know a major component of that so
you do need an apollo program level investment
private and public investment
to break through the stores problem and agreed
problem we do not have a transmission system
well we don’t have a transmission system that’s
adequate for the existing fleet of conventional
populist let alone
energy
but here’s where the new bridge technologies
come into play
plug in
hybrids
there’s one on the market right now as we
speak
for years
I got the first addition prison parking lot
I love that discard ever had
it’s getting forty nine miles per gallon seven
years and hundred fifty thousand miles later
what the next generation the plug in hybrids
of the key okay
so you put them in at night when energy demand
is low
you charge up the battery is the batteries
are good for forty miles
that’s ninety percent of the commuter Justice
in the united states forty miles
if you have a battery
they can get you forty miles you will never
a drop of gas
that’s plug in hybrid
but it’s also a storage system do you see
if everybody in America had a plug in hybrid
bowl
now you’re talking a new interface that with
the grade
now you have a story system
plus you have a transportation system
and you’ve gotten out of control
that’s what we’re talking
that’s what we’re talking about
those kinds of bridge technologies those kinds
of massive breakthroughs
solar solar for a photo of all takes going
gangbusters my friend
gross over
they went public
they they are three years backlog
three years
backlog wire the backlog they can’t make solar
panels fast enough
the demands for solar panels are so great
they can’t make them fast enough to install
but we know that for the vote take pills or
not the
the ultimate answer
how about solar thermal
california’s building a one thousand megawatts
thermal solar panel our plan the mojave desert
desert united states
there’s also some desert tortoise is in the
united states and you know what
we’re gonna lose
it is also a lot of beautiful deficits
the desert landscape is just
if you’ve never really spend much time this
mythical
it’s beautiful
proscar spin on it
but you know what
we’re gonna put a hell of a lot of solar
panels
and solar power plants in the desert
the greatest single source of electricity
in the united states in the world
is efficiency
inner tube two elements to efficiency one
is more productive use of the existing energy
into is energy conservation they’re two different
things are often confused at the different
energy efficiency simply means getting more
bang for your buck
making every
%uh molecule calorie of energy
do more
doing more with less that’s what energy efficiency
knees
what are the potential for what is the potential
for energy efficiency according to mckinsey
and company
which is the leading
international global well recognize serious
over
quantitative economic tide people
fifty percent the that the world could reduce
energy demand reduction say improving energy
efficiency improve productivity
by fifty percent
by twenty thirty
with an investment
of trillions it sounds like a lot of money
which would return seventeen percent
in the united states we can get to fifty percent
with roughly a seven billion dollar per year
investment
our entire budget
today
for everything
that’s renewable an efficiency
isn’t even a billion
the one plant
the demonstration plant that they’re talking
about building to demonstrate this carbon
capture in sequestration
system I’m talking about
the prototype plan is over a billion dollars
one
prototype
he’s over a billion dollars
if you took all the money
but you’re talking about spending to burn
coal cleanly
and put it into energy efficiency
you would knock energy demand
in half
if you talk money from a trade an auction
program of carbon dioxide emissions
such as we now have in in the in the northeast
in the regional greenhouse gas emissions reggie
had its first auction last month
turkey and forty million bucks
it was a big success for the first auction
and they’re going to have another option did
November and December and then they’re going
to have won every quarter
following that
if you took the money
nationally
he scaled not scale that program up national
and you start talking about auctioning off
carbon dioxide emissions
nationally
and you take those proceeds in you do two
things with that one
you get a rebate because it’s going to be
a price
get that each and every one
electricity consumer
in other consumers in the united states there’s
no getting around that
there’s no free lunch
there’s no pain freeway deal with this
it’s a lie
to try to suggest that we’re going to get
out of this without getting hurt we are going
to get her
question is not whether we want to get hurt
worst later
we’ll put their heard on somebody else later
we’ll take the hit now for what we need to
do
take have to take some of the money
from these option revenues which are going
to be in the billions
and you read it the kicker for low-income
people
to offset the price hit time
fuel electricity
but take the rest of it and put it into these
breakthrough technologies
because even a high price on carbon even something
like thirty
for time of carbon dioxide is not
than a point
wind power on the bread
all we’ve got on the great today are oil and
gas and nukes and coal
and hydro
and all of those are testing their backs
so you can drive the price of carbon dioxide
emissions as high as you want you are not
going to put
none carvings sources on the great by doing
that the only way you’re going to do that
he’s invest
in the breakthroughs on the technology and
force
both public and private investment
into those more efficient and cleaner technologies
concerned enough about the future
and do we take seriously our moral
obligation
to the future
to the people who come after us not just our
kids for kids kids and their kids kids
we’ve never been tested like this before
I hope
and pray
it were up to
but don’t expect it to be easier pain-free
it won’t be
we to of ourselves
a very deep hole
and the first rule of holes years
when you’re in one
stopped it
doctor healy a preliminary
perot and jerry is the author of the uterus
crisis one of the first books too weakened
by mental toxins with a staggering rate of
women’s reproductive thomases
in two thousand six she was chair of maine’s
first global warming conference
she has written for he
the environmental magazine in london’s the
ecologists doctor preliminary notes that the
issues a radically changing global environment
caused by humans must be addressed now from
the local level up
what’s happened to accelerate these changes
the issues of surrounding climate change and
although that is multilayered
it’s extremely complex it doesn’t just mean
dealing
with of the climate but
and the whole of the biosphere
and where at the top of a very very toxic
food chain
but i’d like to focus on today and mine talk
is how weather modification which was mentioned
just briefly in a question
%uh is playing a major role not in this repeatedly
of environmental changes
but also in advance increases of illness
so let me set the stage with some background
%uh I spent fifteen years of independent research
for my last book the which is called the interim
crisis
it is of one of the first books to link
environmental the huge environmental crises
that we have multi-layered that they are
with women’s reproductive
problems
and they are staggering from
%uh it
the the from fetuses in utero all the way
to
well the women
%uh and %uh no I haven’t done the research
have for you guys to not allow a
the hook by any means because sperm count
is down by fifty percent
with all the toxins in the indictment
but what I learned with of this research is
and it’s a staggering figure
if you can even get your mind around it
is that we are exposed on a regular basis
to a hundred
thousand
chemicals
every single day
it depends on this field where you are and
I do mean as spew because it’s a toxic spew
%um
and most of these most of these had never
been tested for human safety
with the guinea pigs
four
%uh the an experiment that is way out of control
and this is one of the reasons
that we have
high rates of cancer old on right now cancers
number two
superseded by %uh heart
cardiovascular problems which is now number
one and past month
which I will mention later it’s number three
in addition their eight thousand new chemicals
that go on line every year
to which we’re also exposed
a thousand
he’s still have never been has tested for
human safety
chemicals and pharmaceuticals
our tested one at a time
and because the way things are right now there
are very few independent lands and few independent
scientists
so a lot of this is that as I say the foxes
of guarding
and a scenario that’s really pretty awful
and we have known really since the thirties
particularly for issues surrounding women’s
reproductive problems
that ten times was safe
or unsafe in the thirties but a lot of things
are covered up and that has not changed in
seventy years
so having of the pharmaceutical companies
test things are the chemical companies test
things doesn’t necessarily mean
it was safe to some things put on line
in addition all in addition of these the and
safety fact is that the chemical and the pharmaceutical
companies
%uh test four
it does and real the testing one chemical
at a time
this does not address with doctor theo colburn
in are stolen future in nineteen ninety six
and rest and that is it’s multiple
and one
chemical plus one chemical does not equal
to
one chemical plus one chemical could equal
especially in hormone disrupting chemicals
sixteen hundred times the does
and we’re all walking time bombs that is a
reality everybody in this room
the lawyers did a great great show about six
years ago called trade secrets
up which is still available I believe on GATT
looking at this whole issue
of of the multiplicity of
chemicals and the problems
that of the problems I should say of greed
and have closed four
Americans and as I write in the you during
crisis it’s all about greed it’s not about
my well-being and safety
and the recount was still worries
about the problems
of people who have become critically ill wide-eyed
story’s going back to the if delayed a minute
the crisis in the sixties and seventies
toxic shock syndrome
pesticide poisoning switcher really off the
scale
even for small children
and vioxx just to name a few it was on the
market when they knew it was unsafe and
people were spending a fortune
so that the companies could make billions
of dollars
we are the guinea pigs any here
tension complex experimentally the health
and environmental
repercussions are absolutely staggering
babies are now going in with what is called
the body burden
that is well the growing in utero in their
moms bodies
they are already getting a chemical body buried
in that is
pastime
the umbilical cord and so by birth
cooler
children
are already
affected
and they are staggering rates of birth deformities
cancers and other reproductive related illnesses
that we did not have twenty or thirty years
ago
when I was growing up there was no such thing
as a children’s hospital think about it
we have children’s hospitals all older
what has happened
what has happened just think about that figure
out what does a hundred thousand
chemicals to me
in a mixture that is not even
being tested
they asked mathematical complicity
we believe chemicals every day
we need food grown in heavily pesticide it
so i’ll
so it’s greatly reduced the in beneficial
organisms and mineral content from thirty
and forty years ago
we drink of water that is highly contaminated
with other chemicals
including mercury is pat mentioned
and every other kind of spew that you can
even imagine Robert Kennedy junior has been
working with the as several water conservation
now organizations of water keepers over the
last thirty years to try and even clean up
the PCB’s in
of the hudson river
and there’d been frequent
reports of rocket fuel
rocket fuel
in mother’s milk
and found in lettuce
what is that doing in our food supply
secondly
thirty years of environmental laws have been
%um
systematically destroyed over the last eight
years
Americans are exposed to many higher levels
of toxins including mercury
from power plant in nations is pat had mentioned
from cement factories
and from multi prepared vaccinations the latter
of which he has
resulted in collected some high rates of elect
its own eighty the and other kind of times
a fund troubles
for centuries we’ve known that mercury probably
thousands of years
that mercury is deadly there is no safe
level of mercury
not at all
the man had a rather alice in wonderland is
based on the seventeenth and eighteenth century
real Manhattan is
who died and went crazy before they did
because of the use of mercury in making those
two elements that we see in
%uh a historical
paintings
is no safe level is a mention of mercury
it takes decades to work its deadly action
and in a person’s later years brain function
and had mentioned each year in and death
in scenes
I’ve seen it with my own mother
who is one of the leading dentists in the
united states for forty seven years I’ve seen
it with friends
and it’s a pretty awful scenario to see somebody
who was brilliant not even be able to communicate
Mark you’re a is unsafe and we are breathing
it as we speak
they really
in regard to climate change
there’s been new research
from several scientists just in this past
year is showing doing
ten other signs but activity from my son
the science is not perfect we’ve heard from
of people earlier today saying it’s a consensus
and there’s everything’s always up for
reexamination
%uh but in the air this lack of sun spot activity
could indicate up from several scientists
if you need the web sites in the %uh particular
references i’ll be glad to give them to you
after
mind talk
%uh this might be indicating that we’re entering
what is known as a minder
menem on
that is similar to the ice age that was mentioned
earlier during the seventeenth century
this may indicate that in fact maybe the crime
it is not getting warmer but much cooler
we just don’t know this is whole up for changes
I will say living in maine and having just
know
of from California and that’s a know this
story
%uh main this past winter had sixteen feet
of snow
it’s the highest
%uh most significant snow level that we had
since records and began and to be kept during
the eighteen seventies
so this is all of something that we see it’s
is still a a process that we still don’t know
what’s going to happen
finally
the fourth issue of the brown class that we’re
mention just earlier
it does anybody know about the brown plant
the and
yeah
two people
okay sense that the last year and up a little
bit earlier a
nasa
has retrofitted a a number of planes
and then the international scientific %uh
team of has been put together under doctor
the rahman not in its goods institution of
oceanography
they are tracking starting April last year
there is big articles in the Wall street journal
and all over the west coast though it didn’t
seem to get a that kind of attention
I would have hoped
of this international team has been tracking
the the pollution from India
and from China
and the clouds really are brown and I can
tell you from living in California for thirty
five years that its best
we had we don’t see them here is much but
they’re here because we’re in a close look
and what affect one part of the country
and then surely comes around
and hits other points of the planet
but the pollution
is of fields with
%uh industrial pollution that includes sell
it
heavy metals
armenians allies
power plant in nations including one mercury
from coal-fired plant home heating snows and
forest fires
the highly toxic pollution
is measured in wanting on its head as terror
gramm’s
one terror grand equals two point two billion
palin’s
of toxic
and assorted other things that are coming
here from China
it takes about a week every take of the weather
so in addition to our own pollution figures
we are now getting more than forty billion
pounds of pollution annually from asia
and pollution figures have doubled over the
last twenty years
the US gets the heaviest
load of these brown clouds
during the springtime and less over the summer
this is a global issue
and we certainly is Americans haven’t been
stepping up to the plate
the survey report issued by the world bank
in two thousand seven
estimates that there are about four hundred
and sixty thousand premature Chinese deaths
a year
just from reading polluted air
and drinking poisoned water
although this was questioned by
an official of China’s state environmental
protection administration saying that it was
baseless
however the financial China into the financial
times and the Chinese government
which conducted
this research and partnership
with the world bank
yes that the lender that is the world bank
not publish these estimates for fear that
it could trigger
social unrest
China is beset by growing public alarm about
asked acid rain and toxic water
and as promised by twenty ten
the air pollutants by ten percent but even
last year they fail to meet last year’s
of measurements that they had
Don
the united states is a that is own channel
shameful statistics and i’d like to just give
you some of them
our nation’s
which include benzine which is highly toxic
and of causes
the cardiovascular problems and an elevated
a blood pressure
kills thirty thousand Americans each year
the risk of cancer from breeding diesel exhaust
that we believe every day
it’s about ten times more than ingesting all
of the toxic pollutants combined
with these alleged Michigan it nations contributing
to over seventy percent of the cancer risk
the air pollution in the united states
ferri we take the equivalent of smoking
twenty cigarettes every day even if we non-smokers
just in the air pollution that we’re breathing
every second
the boston area
ranks number five in the country for premature
deaths due to diesel pollution annually
and in the state of Massachusetts alone diesel
emissions are responsible for the following
figures and annual statistics
one hundred fifty premature deaths
seven hundred non-fatal heart attacks
nine thousand
nine hundred has meant tax
thirteen thousand respirators sentencing children
and sixty thousand lost work days
according to the EPA
emissions from power plants contribute to
over two thousand eight hundred lung cancers
and deaths
and thirty eight thousand two hundred
heart attacks annually
in the united states
so this is just up
other little bit
of what we are dealing with in terms of figures
of toxicity in the air that read read every
day
this does not conclude
good weather modification
ancient cultures
he’s to do
native tribal dances to pray for rain to bring
areas that were very dry
and have good rainfall
in the twentieth century clouds receded buying
numerous countries around the globe
with various chemicals to produce rain China
was just doing this over this summer
in Beijing to make sure that there weren’t
any
%uh the rain
that there wasn’t any rain during the Olympics
but all this is changed dramatically
with the US military’s secretive research
and plans to control
the planet’s natural weather
this is not been giving very much
of
press
and we have to remember is that we I have
a corporate bones
where eighty five percent of radio television
and print media is owned by five corporations
so they’re not going to talk about things
that are of of
really serious
consequence
and that’s someone of the blessing a mixed
blessing of the internet but there’s certainly
plenty of information on weather modification
the air force is on record as saying quote
they want to control the weather by twenty
twenty five and we are not talking about
just seeing the clouds for rain
weather modification means quote
any activity performed with the intention
of producing
artificial changes in the composition
the hate your lead-in amex of the atmosphere
unquote
and as of April this year
there are more than a hundred and fifty different
weather modification
programs
around
the world
since about two thousand the department of
defense
and the department of energy
have been spraying the entire united states
sky a with the toxic brew of chemicals
and other biologic
agents
that
just want to show you something
we have two different kinds of trails in the
sky right now
one and coal country knows how many of you
know it country knows
I trails are would have been around then from
and
the them
ends of planes since world war two
he’s a very very short
exhaust trails that usually evaporate within
a few minutes you just look up in the sky
and
you’ll just see it yet sometimes with
four trails but it evaporates pretty quickly
how many of you know what can trails are
the military
and some commercial planes party
the spraying us
with winter cold kemp trails I wanted to look
at the
and often times before this the weather front
there are heavy assaults of from
these planes
just before weather front is changed
and comes in
military in some commercial jets have been
fitted with huge barrels of at least
forty nine different kinds of documented chemical
poisons
among other documented ingredient in these
toxic man-made clouds
I packed and are and package any molds found
by
weaponize viruses and made in some places
like %uh the secret side at Fort dietrich
maryland which is supposed to be a cancer
site
but there are a number of scholars and professes
tracking this that there have been questions
about this
barry and
and that alone in particles
what he’s due to the human body
barry in this in outlying areas mineral it
was discovered in seventeen seventy four
at low doses it can act is in mosul stimulant
at high doses
it definitely affects the heart and the nervous
system
barry in this toxic to all mammals
and that means not just humans
aluminum which is the most abundant medal
in the earth’s crust
is known
to diminish
kidney function
and destroyed brain cells in cognitive function
just think about it is between the aluminum
and a mercury that with breathing all the
time
we’ve got a really serious issue about
of brain function and cognitive function
there is also documented evidence that the
aluminum Inc and trails is releases now particles
and that when they’ve reached the air
environment for wildlife
the in lakes and streams it’s causing serious
of problems with wildlife the air
researchers are also finding that matter of
particles interfere with the growth of plants
now the technology is totally on really unregulated
Justice pay a step of mind AN new research
report that came out of the shelling and documenting
for the first time that the snout particles
actually go through the skin
well if you believe them when they go through
the skin and when you’re inhaling them it’s
still
the problem
a serious problem
other toxic chemicals that have been documented
include of money and
the money and chloride this myth
cadmium one of the most toxic
the
elements also in %uh the environment
had some problem benzine lead potassium iodide
potassium for chlorate sell friends I mean
this is just a the toxics view
of carcinogens
series respiratory and skinny retains cardiovascular
and that gas do it
intestinal toxic fumes
I’m asking is there a relationship
between asthma now the number-three killer
in the united states
and staggering rates of it for small children
up from number ten a decade ago and the country
else
according to include for iconic on
who’s been studying can transfer
nine years now and I met with him
to discuss this in detail
of this summer
quote the true nature of these areas so operations
remain undisclosed and close to fair insemination
by the public
all of this is being done by stealth
to keep listening grants
there is a long long history in the united
states
tragically
not the kind of history that you learn in
college textbooks
about
secret
chemical
exposure
to which Americans where
subjected
i’d like to read you just a few of them
in nineteen thirty one back to cornelius roads
under the auspices of the rockefeller institute
for medical investigations
infected human subjects with cancer cells
they were not told about it
he later went on to establish the US army
biological warfare facility in maryland
utah and panama and then was named to the
US atomic energy commission
while there he began a series of series of
radiation exposures
experiments on American soldiers and civilians
in hospice and hospitals
in nineteen forty two chemical warfare services
began mustard gas experiences
on approximately four thousand servicemen
the experiments continued until nineteen forty
five eight and made use of the seventh day
adventists who chose to be calm
human guinea pigs
rather than serve on duty
good
nineteen sixty five prisoners in %uh as in
prison in Philadelphia where subject it to
dioxin
dioxin is so toxic it is a byproduct of
%uh the chlorine when it breaks down whether
it’s in
of clorox or and ten times
and a teaspoon could literally kill the entire
planet
taxing
is a carcinogen
and it’s part of a agent orange
%uh that was suspected even be for %uh
the military used it
of for a
desert storm
in nineteen ninety six that the department
of defense admits that desert storm
exposures
for all of the military of liz they were exposed
to chemical agents including
%uh agent on inch
so I have questions
questions that have to be part of an are urgently
needed
discussion an outcry when is this going to
stop
obviously you don’t know and I would urge
you there outside there are %uh there’s a
list
of web sites
that you can go to not just a quick reply
constant this is the most
the his the web site is the most well-documented
one with lots of medical information
I’ve talked to over a hundred doctors just
in this past six months
that’s the pants and east
%uh also to people and to health care and
there we have staggering rates
upper respiratory and cardiovascular problems
that we never used to have
there’s a brand new emerging
field and that’s called environmental cardiology
%uh and then not even dealing with the issues
of of whether modifications and
country house
i’d like to know how are the real drought
conditions by nature
exacerbated by a constant spew of the area
soles
in the campaign trails
how much global warming for climate change
is actually call eyes
by a millions of times
of these areas soles
that have been sprayed over us for the last
eight years without our permission
it’s not just CO two emissions that we have
to deal with but we have to deal with weather
modification
how is the weather modification by the military
destabilising our planet’s
natural
plants the fat natural weather
a controversial weather modification bill
was just planted and just passed Bush just
signed it today
I think the nineties
%um %uh congress
there was no public discussion
these bills did not include
a any agricultural
water EPA or public representatives
and did not have any provision for congressional
state county
but public oversight
of either expenditures medical and or environmental
consequences
in other words we’ve really been guinea pigs
for at least the last eight years with literally
every breath we take
seven days a week
three hundred sixty five days a year what
we are breeding now as one of mine dear friend
says the indoor out there is just the same
what the indoor areas is just the outdoor
air inside
in addition the Pentagon is on record this
summer as saying it wants to resume open-air
testing a biologic weapons is a flyer outside
on this with some research that professor
france’s boyle has done
and he’s been quoted recently as saying the
Pentagon is fully prepared to launch biological
warfare
by means of a hand tracks
all the equipment has been a quiet
and all the training conducted in most combat
ready members of the US armed forces is being
given protective equipment in vaccine
do you know that as of October first how many
of you know that we are on an amtrak schooler
that was issued by the %uh
secretary of health and human services anybody
know
one person to people
three people
yes
so I would like to say that we don’t have
star trek
technology
it’s just a hollywood fantasy
that much of this
technology
it’s being used on us with out are permission
we are signatories to
no germ warfare and to the nuremberg trials
this is our home
this is our home earth is our home we don’t
have star trek technology
to go to another planet
we have consequences that are moral and ethical
in the ramifications
and we don’t need to have any more attacks
since
our planet will survive but we will not with
the staggering rates of health issues
and I ask you do we want to live on a planet
that is a sewer
think about it
thank you very much
as rupert murdoch explains imagine if we succeed
in inspiring are audiences to reduce their
own impacts on climate change by just one
percent
that would be like turning the state of California
off
for almost
two months
thank you for joining us today and I hope
that these issues will
of fact your view of global warming