About two weeks ago I looked up into the evening sky and saw a pale, blood red glow. I thought I was observing the Sun's reflection off of some localized pollution source. Yet I had never seen it before.
Turns out....it was radiation!!!
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Friday, November 4, 2011
Another Side Dish For RIBs & BEIR - Fetal Case Study
You need not read this to follow the RIBs & BEIR series, this just provides a sidebar.
I created a link to NRC Event Reports on the Home page. If you click on it today (11/04/11), you will see there was an incident involving a fetus that received an estimated 17.4 rads.
I created a link to NRC Event Reports on the Home page. If you click on it today (11/04/11), you will see there was an incident involving a fetus that received an estimated 17.4 rads.
I Should Have Been A Civil Engineer
It's Arnie Gundersen with information "he's been wanting to share with you for a long time". But for some reason, he couldn't post a YouTube video until now.
Call me skeptical.
Call me skeptical.
RIBs & BEIR P3
(P1 can be found here)
In this post, I'll shift from epidemiology to history in order to appreciate the LSS in the Big Picture.
The atomic bombings occurred in 1945. We didn't discover DNA until 1953, though we had postulated how radiation might cause cancer. We had directly observed cell effects and we had animal studies which showed radiation carcinogenesis.
The overall sense was that radiation caused cancer. That's why we undertook the LSS!
In this post, I'll shift from epidemiology to history in order to appreciate the LSS in the Big Picture.
The atomic bombings occurred in 1945. We didn't discover DNA until 1953, though we had postulated how radiation might cause cancer. We had directly observed cell effects and we had animal studies which showed radiation carcinogenesis.
The overall sense was that radiation caused cancer. That's why we undertook the LSS!
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Global Warming Is Caused By Radiation!
Of course it is.
It's not ionizing radiation - it's infrared radiation. The Sun's ultraviolet light (high energy relative to visible light) is degraded on Earth and re-emitted by our planet as infrared light (low energy relative to visible light).
The CO2 molecule has a quantized vibrational state. It loves to vibrate by absorbing IR at the frequency of 667/cm, which happens to be close to the peak frequency associated with the Earth's IR radiance.
It's not ionizing radiation - it's infrared radiation. The Sun's ultraviolet light (high energy relative to visible light) is degraded on Earth and re-emitted by our planet as infrared light (low energy relative to visible light).
The CO2 molecule has a quantized vibrational state. It loves to vibrate by absorbing IR at the frequency of 667/cm, which happens to be close to the peak frequency associated with the Earth's IR radiance.
RIBs & BEIR P2
(P1 can be found here)
We know we can't run the "perfect" epidemiological experiment on humans.
But we have options:
We know we can't run the "perfect" epidemiological experiment on humans.
But we have options:
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