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Some interesting links about things that keep me busy (like unsolved mysteries,influence of GSM radiation, predictions for the future, indigo children,...). All things that are not recognized as "normal" science.
Enough information to read the whole weekend:
http://www.daanspeak.com/
http://www.niburu.nl/

fresh air again

A new work week. No SMOG anymore and all problems are solved. NOT!!!
In any case, I would like to thank all people who did their best to reudcue the CO2 emission during the past week (including myself). Shame on all you selfish people who didn't kept their speed. But I've putted it on film! :o)



And because good initiatives deserve some attention (although it's a publicity stunt), I will publish this movie:
(maybe a good investment of the governement to reduce speed on highways, but I'm afraid the number of accidents will grow.)

JMDD

When I was driving home yesterday evening (again 90km/u) I listened to StuBru. On a certain moment, a listener calls to the radio program, and tells that she saw a lot of people driving too fast, also a car with a “P” license plate n°. (This means that it’s someone of the Belgium parliament.) Shouldn’t they need to give the good example?? (even though they also don’t drive with environment-friendly cars)
Anyway,the host of the program calls to the parliament with the story that he ran into an empty car with the license plate N° “P71”, and that he would like to know to who this car belongs. The guy at the telephone looks in his file and answers the question: Jean Marie De Decker.
After this phone call, the host calls this politician for a reaction. At first he denied this, but afterwards he confessed. They way he reacts was really funny. He was not very happy with the phone call, and he even didn’t agreed with the speed limit, and told that other people should not tell him what to do. He didn’t agreed that police gives speed limits, and said that they only use the Kyoto-regulation as a way to earn money for the state. Not a good publicity, but everybody who knows him will not be surprised of his reaction.
The show can be re-listened at the StuBru website.

SMOG on the blog

From this morning on, there is a special speed limitation on some Belgian Highway's. the maximum allowed speed is now 90 km/u. The reason to lower the speed limit is because there is too much SMOG in the air. The speed limitaion will probably be valid till friday.
On the radio I heard that there were around 20, 30 people on the roads to place special sign's to indicate where this limitation is valid.
This morning I drove to work and I didn't noticed anything!! Maybe 90 % of drivers drove as fast as usual. So the question is if the work of these "sign putters" was usefull, or just a waste of time and money.
SMOG is very unhealty for the breathing mechanism, and can even cause COPD. Advice is to stay inside and do no heavy physical efforts.
If these polution is so unhealty, why are there so less people who don't obey the rules? Is it that important to arrive 10 minutes earlier on work? Even more important then health?!? (source)
For me, the police may sharpen speed controls. But unfortunattely they don't. Although, they do not contole speed more than useual, they already gave more than thousand people a speeding ticket. (and this on only half a day) On certain times, police even noticed more than 7 speeding violations in one minute. (source)

Understand who can?! But here again, everybody is playing turtle and hiding inside their shield, thinking that other people will take care.

These subject of air polution reminds me of the "global dimming"- subject, Interesting information about this can be found here and here.

And this item reminds me on it's turn on an interesting part of a belgian television show (and funny as well) I saw yesterday. This part of the televsion show can be watched here. The guy in the movie adresses some possible dangers for the world like sun storms, meteorite strike,... Learnfull information on a funny way.

Enough for today, I'm afraid I'll need to hit the road again. Although speed is limited till 90, I'll probably won't be able to drive more than 40 due to the daily traffic jam. I'm still wondering why there are so much crazy people to join traffic jams for 3 hours a day they're whole life long.

I'm working temporary "on location" now for a couple of month's and I'm already completely insane!!! Insane in the brain. :o)

global warming not bad at all

Because It's friday, and I don't have the time to write something usefull. Just a funny image I received via email. Probably most of the people 've got it, but doesn't matter.

A couple of days ago, I read some interesting article about "global dimming" (practicly the opposite as "global warming"), but I didn't had the time yet to read this in depth. So more information will be provided afterwards. The only thing I was thinking that it's pretty remarkable that "global dimming" is not mentioned that often in the media. Is it not important? Is the influence small enough to neglect? Are the consequences neglectable? Or is it just me that lives on another world. Although, I never heard about it before reading this article. Searching in Google deliveres 592.000 results, so probably it's just me. :o)

For a concrete definition see "global dimming" on wikipedia. Maybe global warming and global dimming results in a zero-operation, and there is nothing to worry about at all. But I'm affraid that it's not that simple at all. A new item to take a closer look at...

Crazy Inventions award

After reading the previous article, I started searching to find more information about the results on global warming to the great barrier reef. A very interesting article can be found here (in dutch). This article describes some "solutions" (what's in a name), to let the reef survive.
The first solution is to build a large shield over the reef to avoid direct sunlight on the water, and place the reef into the shadow. Not very esthetic I think. See here (English)
A second solution they propose is to spray the surface of the water with water pumped up from the sea, this to break up the surface of the water to reduce the amount of UV-radiation. See here (English)

Pretty funny article! What a crazy solutions. How far will they need to go on long terms? Maybe we should build a complete shield around the earth, create our own sunshine and produce our own oxygen. Build a world wide airconditioning? The crazier, the better!

The most remarkable thing I read in the article was the following sentence:
"We're very concerned because this is a $5.8 billion tourist industry on the reef, employing 33,000 people,"
So here again we see that the reason to save the reef is not to protect the environment, but to earn as much money as possible. Economic interests are placed above nature. Of course I agree that employment and economy is important as well to survive, but we don't breath money yet.
Although people are more and more discussing global warming, I think most people think that they don't have to change, that other people will do this. Or that this is the task of the governement. Although the discussion is opened, the thinking pattterns of most people are not changed yet. Untill this does not happen, nothing will change.
It becomes time that people realize that there is more in life than money!!!

Global warming already known for years

My Interest in the Climate problems started a couple of years ago, when I read this article in the newspaper. Nothing new if you read this now. But this article was published almost 3 years ago (before most people were talking about global warming and people have never heard of a person called "Al Gore"). At that moment I've cutted this out because I found it pretty remarkable. I've always been fascinated about inventions that people do to make this a better world, but in the end, it turns out that it makes the world even worse. Global warming is for my opinion one of the negative results of all super-inventions of human kind.
(Maybe it's also because of my great predilection for australie that this specific article drew my attention, but this doesn't matter.)
When the article was published, nobody payed attention to this topic, now it's a topic were everybody talks about. Media had a very important influence on this. Although the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" had a lot of criticism, it opened the eyes of people, and global warming became a topic of worldwide discussion. Not a bad thing at all.
At the moment I'm wondering how the story will continue. Some people are laughing this away, other people are predicting large disasters.
Although I don't know what exactly to expect, I'm convinced that health problems and natural catastrophes will grow in amount.