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"Makes no sense to me." Senator Byron Dorgan strongly opposes the 'Trade' in Cap & Trade in his recent speech on the U.S. Senate floor Part 1 Part 2 HR 2454: American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 has passed the House and has moved to the U.S. Senate for a vote. The toll free number for all of our elected officials in Washington, D.C. is (1866) 220-0044 - Call your elected officials and oppose this legislation. See Buying & Selling the Right to Pollute | Govtrack.us
Restored rule requires species act consultation San Francisco Chronicle. The U.S. Navy should be pressured into complying with the restored rule requiring species act consultations with wildlife experts – before taking actions that could have an impact on endangered or threatened species. The Navy program will have this type of impact and should be required to follow this rule. Please contact your elected officials and let them know that the Navy is not exempt from this rule!  ACTION ALERT!(Updated October 2009) Stop The Navy from “taking” 32 species of marine mammals in their 5 year Warfare Testing Program in the Pacific Ocean. Deadline for public comment extended to November 2009 Take Action Oregon senators question Navy training off coast Read The US Navy expands experimental program and threatens our air, soil and water with chemical contamination Read UPDATED - Navy v. Us: Weapons playgrounds on both coasts Read Seismic Bangs 'Block' Whale Calls. Scientists have turned up new evidence showing that ocean noise can affect the communication of whales BBC News Navy plan to increase warfare training off Oregon coast draws objections Read A Blank Check Over the Pacific Northwest Coast - Read New Energy Center to Impact Future Weapons for Naval and Joint Forces: The Navy demonstrated its commitment to "game-changing" directed energy technological programs at the Naval Directed Energy Center (NDEC) ribbon cutting ceremony held at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) September 10, 2009...The focus of activity in the new building will be directed energy systems and applications, which use electromagnetic energy to project military force and augment conventional capabilities...The facility is the first in a series of planned construction projects designed to accommodate increasing directed energy activity at Dahlgren...DEWO options range from high energy lasers and high power microwaves to directed energy initiatives that counter improvised explosive devices..." Read  Agricultural Alert - Action Item!Weather modification & mitigation bills set to pass in 2009! Read  The BONNEFIRE Coalition aims to take real action against persistent jet contrails. Enough is enough — it's time to take meaningful, positive action to take back our skies and protect our planet. BONNEFIRE offers an opportunity to be a part of a well-planned and concerted effort designed to have our legitimate concerns met. Find out more about what you can do to participate. Together we can make a real difference. Let's get it done!
How Technology Could Soon "Read" Your Mind  Neuroscience research into how we think and what we're thinking is advancing at a stunning rate, making it possible for the first time in human history to peer directly into the brain to read out the physical make-up of our thoughts, some would say to read our minds. Read China Wages War on Olympic WeatherBehind locked gates around Beijing these days, some heavy artillery sits aimed at the clouds Read
 Cute sky written smiley face raises some pertinent questionsThe snapshot was taken in February 2008 over Evansville, Indiana and published in Parade Magazine. Read more US Weather Modification Programs:  Click on the US map image to enlarge  Wild horses in jeopardy A romantic icon. A magnificent sentient being. Are we in danger of losing this beauty forever? Read |
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Ocean Holocaust!Special ReportKTVU Channel 2 News reports on expansion of US Navy Warfare Training Program Lethal Sounds - "Deafeningly loud sonar
is a proven danger to marine life and its use throughout the world's ocean is spreading. This powerful NRDC movie, 'Lethal Sounds' makes it plain what sonar does to whales caught within its range, and explains how whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals should and can be protected from deadly sonar activities." NRDC. Narrated by Pierce Brosnan. |
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All Navy protest petitions that were received prior to June 8, 2009, were hand delivered to your elected officials in Washington, D.C. by the SkyWatch delegations from California and Connecticut.
Every U.S. Senate Office received a visit from members of the delegation along with two-thirds of the offices of the House of Representatives.
They received your petitions, our Navy poster, documents and other information about the U.S. Navy Warfare Testing Programs. In response to our lobbying efforts several members of the U.S. Senate sent a letter the following week dated June 19, 2009, to the NMFS (NOAA-U.S. Department of Congress), with the statement below included in their letter:
"In many regions, the Navy plans to increase the number of its exercises or expand the areas in which they may occur, and virtually every coastal state will be affected . Some exercises may occur in the nation's most biologically sensitive marine habitats, including National Marine Sanctuaries and breeding habitat for the endangered North Atlantic right whale. In all, the Navy anticipates more than 2.3 million takes (significant disruptions in marine mammal foraging, breeding and other essential behaviors) per year or, 11.7 million takes over the course of a 5 year permit."
The SkyWatch delegations will be taking all petitions received since June 8, 2009, again to Washington, D.C. in October 2009. These petitions and new information will be provided to all U.S. Senators and members of the House of Representatives. Please help in gathering signatures and getting them to us in the near future.
From the Federal Register March 11, 2009:This application from the Navy "…requests authorization to take individuals of 32 species of marine mammals during upcoming Navy Warfare testing and training to be conducted in the NWTR areas (off the Pacific coasts of Washington, Oregon, and northern California) over the course of 5 years…"
See NOAA 'Incidental Take Applications'
See NRDC 'Navy' search results
The Navy Warfare Testing Program will "…utilize mid - and high frequency active sonar sources and explosive detonations. These sonar and explosive sources will be utilized during Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) Tracking Exercises, Mine Avoidance Training, Extended Echo Ranging and Improved Extended Echo Ranging (EER/IEER) events, Missile Exercises, Gunnery Exercises, Bombing Exercises, Sinking Exercises, and Mine Warfare Training…"
See 2009 U.S. Navy Range Complex Map (Active Sonar Training) .pdf
NRDC - Sounding the Depths: The Rising Toll of Sonar, Shipping and Industrial Ocean Noise on Marine Life
Print off a copy of the "Petition to Stop the Proposed Navy Warfare Testing Program Expansion & The Killing of 32 Species of Marine Mammals Over 5 Years in The Pacific Ocean". Return it to Rosalind Peterson for hand delivery!
Download and print off a copy of the Save Our Marine Mammals poster for distribution.
The White House wants your input on the stewardship of our oceans. Please read this!
See Rosalind Peterson's letter to President Barack Obama, Senators Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Merkley, Ron Wyden & Barbara Boxer, U.S. Speaker Of The House Of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, U.S. California Congressmen Mike Thompson & Henry Waxman, et al.
"With the expansion of their Northwest Training Range Complex in the State of Washington, The Navy has decided to expand their contaminatation of our air, water and soils as well. They fail to list many of the chemicals that are to be used in these programs!" Article - The Peterson Perspective
Read Rosalind Peterson's letter to Michael Payne, Chief Permits, Conservation and Education Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
Sign the Earthjustice petition "Taking the Wrong Path on Protecting Right Whales". Endangered right whales are swimming right into plans by the U.S. Navy to develop an Undersea Warfare Training Range 50 miles off the coast of Florida. Tell NOAA Administrator Dr. Jane Lubchenco that you want her agency to make decisions based on sound science and the law!
'Protect Whales During Navy Training Exercises', say Congressmen Mike Thompson & Henry Waxman
Congressman Thompson Seeks Answers From NOAA Re NWTC "Although I welcome NOAA’s commitment to review sonar mitigation measures, I am not aware of any specific elements included in the evaluation and am concerned that the review will be inadequate to address the Navy’s EIS with respect to protection of Pacific Coast ocean ecosystems." Mendocino Independent July 15, 2009 |
Now available ... Navy vs Nature color postcards
DAHLGREN, Va. (NNS) — The Navy demonstrated its commitment to "game-changing" directed energy technological programs at the Naval Directed Energy Center (NDEC) ribbon cutting ceremony held at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division (NSWCDD) Sept. 10. The focus of activity in the new building will be directed energy systems and applications, which use electromagnetic energy to project military force and augment conventional capabilities. Navy.mil
Exclusive: Key differences between the US and Europe could undermine a new worldwide treaty on global warming to replace Kyoto, sources say.
The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar. This is no joke.
NASA: Persistent jet contrails cause climate change NASA noted in an October 2005 newsletter, that increasingly persistent jet contrails may turn into man-made clouds that are "trapping warmth in the atmosphere and exacerbating global warming".
NASA, based on its research and studies, goes on to state, "Any change in global cloud cover may contribute to long-term changes in Earth's climate. Contrails, especially persistent contrails, represent a human-caused increase in the Earth's cloudiness, and are likely to be affecting climate and ultimately our natural resources."
ESA: Contrails study The European Space Agency conducted 'Contrails', a project study on the environmental effects of increasing volumes of air traffic, by intensively monitoring the daily contrail and cirrus cloud coverage, for one year (2004), over Europe and the North Atlantic.
In it's February 2000 report 'Aviation and the Environment', the US Government Accountability Office states:
"Aviation emissions are a potentially significant and growing percentage of greenhouse gases and other emissions that are thought to contribute to global warming. Aircraft emissions are potentially significant for several reasons. First, jet aircraft are the main source of human emissions deposited directly into the upper atmosphere, where they may have a greater warming effect than if they were released at the earth's surface. 'According to data from a 1999 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global aviation contributed about 145 million metric tons of carbon in 1996, or about 2.4 percent of all human-generated carbon emissions – an amount roughly equivalent to the total carbon emissions of Canada'." Summary (HTML) - Full Report (PDF) |
GAO Report on military use of chaff:
"The continuous stream technique, called saturation chaff, may be used by aircraft to cover a large area. Depending on the method and the number of aircraft, such releases could disperse billions of fibers."
Contrails in the MediaA Change in the WeatherKTVU 2 News July 29 2008: In this special report, John Fowler looks at growing trend of meteorological manipulation Toxic Sky?KNBC4 News in Los Angeles investigates the 'jet contrail' phenomenon and the Weather Modification Bill. Part 1 aired May 23, 2006. Rosalind Peterson is interviewed by Paul Moyer as he reports: Is the government manipulating the weather? Part 2 of the series aired November 2006. Part 1 | Part 2 Scientist, Gregory Benford (a geoengineering proponent), stated some of his views in 'Toxic Sky?'. Professor Benford also attended behind-closed-door presentations on climate 'mitigation'. Take a look |
PBS Nova: Dimming the Sun
BBC: Global DimmingBBC Horizon cautions that some viewers may find this documentary disturbing as it examines the power of what scientists call 'Global Dimming'. Watch video The Weather Channel segment on contrails. |
United States New World Role: Low Level Nuclear Waste Dump
U.S. Senate Bill 1733 – Promotes Nuclear Power & Coal Industries While Enriching Venture Capitalists, Banks & Wall Street at Taxpayer Expense Read
U.S. Navy to Conduct Massive Atmospheric Experimental Tests Read
 Plastic soup It's called The Great Pacific Garbage Patch and it is poisoning the oceans. Read |
 The bees are disappearing! "The adults are simply gone. No corpses left behind, nothing out of place. They are just gone." - David Suzuki |
 Bottled water"It's an amazing new fad, one of the most successful advertising hypes in recent history. In 2002, Americans paid $7.7 billion for bottled water." What you need to know |
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Domestic Military Threat
EPA Closing Libraries, Destroying Scientific Documents
How do you like your skies ... Natural or man-made?
Buying & selling the right to pollute, Senator Kerry style! 
PBS NOVA asks, "Are vapor trails from aircraft influencing the climate, and if so, should we worry?"