At On Earth, David Kroodsma took a closer look at record-high night-time temperatures:
July was hot: Washington, D.C., Oklahoma City, Philadelphia, and Austin set records for not just their warmest July in history, but their warmest month on record. The heat prompted people to hide indoors, crank up the air conditioning, or attempt stunts such as cooking eggs on the roof. But what made this month unusual wasn't only the hot days, but rather the hot nights.
Even though repeat heat waves brought sizzling hot days, overnight temperatures broke far more records: According to the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), in July there were 6,106 record high minimum temperatures, and "only" 2,722 record high daytime temperatures.
Curious about these numbers, I looked more into the past decade of temperature records, and also spoke with Climate Central’s staff scientists. Have nights generally warmed faster than days? And if so, why?
I downloaded data from NCDC's database of more than 5,000 weather stations across the United States. For each day since January 1, 2000, I looked at four possible records -- two for the nighttime low temperatures (record low minimum and record high minimum), and two for the daytime high temperatures (record high maximum and record low maximum).
Since 2000, in the average month, record highs (high maximum temperature) beat out record lows (low minimum temperature) by a two to one margin. This is exactly what has been found in previous peer reviewed studies -- including this study, published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2009, by Climate Central’s Claudia Tebaldi and three other researchers.
But looking at these four types of records, it appears that nights have warmed even more: the average month recorded 10 percent more record high minimum temperatures than record high maximums. The record low temperatures tell an even more compelling story: it was much more likely for the daytime temperature to be colder than average than it was for the nighttime ones. There were only 1,235 record low minimum temperatures set per month, while there were 1,697 record low maximum temperatures set per month. By this measure, a record cold day was 40 percent more likely than a record cold night. […]
Green Diary Rescue is a regular Saturday feature at Daily Kos. Inclusion of a particular diary does not necessarily indicate my agreement with it. The GDR begins below and continues with your click.
This weekend more than a dozen Kossacks organized by boatsie are engaged in a "blogathon" for the famine victims in the Horn of Africa. Why should that be included in the Green Diary Rescue? Because it's an issue of food, water, climate change and environmental justice.
Here's rb137 on the subject at 48 for East Africa: Millions and Counting:
Famine is almost always manmade. It is a disaster that requires a series of unfortunate events, but the root cause is usually a failure in the politics of resource distribution. Water, food, infrastructure: where there exists will, it is possible to avert famine. The Horn of Africa is experiencing a severe drought, but a perfect storm of drought, long term neglect, and a host of political failures becomes an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Somalia today.
Please help if you can. Links to other diaries in the blogathon can be seen after the squiggle. You can find the rest of the rescue there, too.
The Famine in the Horn of Africa
boatsie: East Africa Food Crisis: 48 Hours of Action: "This weekend, Daily Kos is participating in 48-Hour Fundraiser hosted by environmental websites and nonprofit organizations to benefit the 12 million people struggling for survival in the East African countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. Last week, the United Nations announced famine—already declared in two districts—is likely to spread throughout southern Somalia. This week, the UN issued a warning that food insecurity in northern Uganda is sufficiently alarming to raise the possibility that the country might become the fifth nation impacted by the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in sixty years. Also participating in this weekend of action are 350.org, Oxfam International, Enough Project, WiserEarth, tcktcktck, DeSmogBlog, MIT Climate CoLab, BPI Campus, Climate Change: The Next Generation, RedGreenAndBlue.org, Cool HIVE, and MedicMobile."
wader: 48forEastAfrica: Let's Change This News: "[T]hese diarists have enlightening perspectives and/or relevant research to help paint a large and deep picture of just what is happening in East Africa that requires our support to help alleviate. We are all seeking to inform and help you consider how you might effectively help our less fortunate, fellow humans who are trying mightily to at least survive and stay safe in these increasingly hostile environments."
Onomastic: The Babies are Dying. You Can Help Save Them..
UnaSpenser: 48forEastAfrica: a strident appeal: "As many of you may know, I'm one of the hosts of the Witnessing Revolution diaries. Perhaps because I've borne witness to so much horror in the past 7 months, I'm unable to make my appeal regarding this famine warm and comfortable for us all. For all the images of people who have been shot or tortured by their governments, at least it was in the context of them rising up against oppression. As traumatic as it is, there is a regaining of one's dignity and pride in that. There is nothing dignified about starving to death. It is a long slow process to go from food security to starvation. It strips away one's dignity before bringing on horrendous pain and suffering."
FishOutofWater: Excellent graphics and maps of the unfolding disaster.
Air, Water and Soil Pollution
LaFeminista was glad, in a disgusted sort of way, that in the Niger Delta: Shell Finally Admits [some] Liability: "Finally after nearly fifty years of continual pollution by the oil companies in the delta someone has been forced to admit liability."
And then informed us about what might happen in the next 50 years in the diary, After Polluting The Niger Delta Shell Allowed To Do Alaska: "Can you hear the cash registers ringing? Pete Slaiby, a Shell vice-president in Alaska, added: 'We feel very good about it. It's one of the road marks we wanted to see. It makes us very happy.' I bet; another delicate ecosystem they can fuck up and make money at the same time. Greed is good, past catastrophes are forgotten: 'Drill Baby Drill!' Hey Alaska good news—all this can be yours as well."
Karen Hedwig Backman also wrote about Dirty Shell and the Niger Delta: "Shell Oil sucked up 120,000 barrels of oil from the region and, as commonly happens, in 2004 a pipeline burst, with Shell Oil pulling out the usual corporate card, blaming the people for sabotage while it appears that it's the usual, cheap corporate trick: corrosion of decades-old pipelines."
Agriculture, Gardening & Food
domestic goddess wrote five diaries on a subject dear to her heart, Good Cheap Food I Learned from my Grandmother: "I read the diaries here of people really struggling to keep the roof over their heads and food on the table. I learned to cook from my mom and grandmother. My grandmother was a phenomenal cook and she survived the Depression and could turn anything edible into something great. So from time to time I will write her "recipes" (she really didn't have many, she just cooked by feel) here and hope that you enjoy them and find them useful. She would have liked that."
Here are the rest: Part II—Stuffed Eggplant; Part III—Pasta Fagioli; Part IV—Braciole; and Part V: "The Argentine government decreed meatless week (no beef but you could buy pork, chicken, lamb) to save beef for export. So this pasta dish was found in restaurants during that week. The Argentines didn't believe in freezing beef as they thought it changed the flavor. So they lamented 'veda' week. We would freeze beef but didn't miss it because we ate other kinds of meat. To Argentines, meat was beef."
In another installment of her series, Macca's Meatless Monday, beach babe in fl gave us the skinny on flowers of yellow and green squash: "Macca's Meatless Monday/Meatless Advocates is a solution oriented activist group, with solutions for some of the most pressing issues of our time including: climate change, global food/water insecurity and public health. Here we don't just talk about the severity of the crisis. Armed with knowledge about how our actions can contribute we become part of the solution."
She also warned about the 36 MILLION Pounds of Poison Still Out There: "36 MILLION pounds ... that's how much turkey was recalled by the agri-business corporate giant Cargill this week potentially laced with antibiotic-resistant salmonella, all of it from a single massive processing plant in Arkansas. It's one of the most massive food recalls in history. Do you have some of the recalled turkey in your freezer?"
And bemoaned that 17 Million Children Go Hungry in the US: "17 million children in the US are going hungry, or 1 out of every 4 children under the age of 18 going to bed hungry in the US each night. Some of these children are experiencing malnutrition which is an issue with long lasting implications which can impact a child's school performance and limit their overall cognitive development. The increase in hungry children is being caused by staggering unemployment and an ailing economy."
Fury was how posse comitatus responded to an incident in Southern California, One Nation Under Tyranny: SWAT Team Raids Raw Food Co-Op: "In LA this week, SWAT teams raided a local private buyers' club that sells raw milk and dairy along with fresh organic produce to members who are looking for healthy food choices in a world full of disease-inducing 'food products.' What were these people doing wrong? Well, since raw dairy is completely legal in California, it remains to be seen why three people were arrested and the owner was charged with a felony and held on $123,000 bail. Un-effing believable!"
In her weekly Saturday Morning Garden Blogging, Frankenoid wrote about one of my favorite snacks: "In any event, since I now have an abundant source of kohlrabi, I can sacrifice some from slicing and eating (Younger Son and I love to snack on raw kohlrabi) and try some other adventures. I think julienned kohlrabi would make a great replacement for shredded cabbage in coleslaw. Or maybe kohlrabi slices would be good grilled."
Et Cetera
In Living Simply: Zero Waste day-to-day, cordgrass described the eye-opener she had on trash day: "I was in a hurry on Monday morning to get to work, so I took my usual quarter bag of trash out of the can, tied it shut and put it out front on the sidewalk, instead of dragging a whole empty trash can up from the side of the house. Usually this is not a problem because I live in a duplex and my upstairs neighbors generate lots of trash. This week, though, they must have been on vacation, because the trash collectors came and went and my lone mostly empty kitchen trash bag stayed there on the sidewalk. I put it in the trash can at the side of the house and will put it out again, with can, this Monday. I was surprised by my reaction—a trace feeling of shame at being different. This, of course, is very silly. It's not that the trash collectors judged me in any way, they probably just didn't see my trash, being so small."
Animals
Muskegon Critic lamented the Doom of the Freshwater Mussels: "My grandmother worked in a button factory in Muskegon, Michigan, to support her family during hard times. From all reports, it was toxic, noxious work when buttons started to be made out of plastic. But that was the new and divergent way, back in the late 1930s. Before that...it was something else entirely. The reason buttons were made in West Michigan at all has to do with freshwater clams. They're rare these days for a reason. And it's not all zebra mussels. A different invasive species wiped out the bivalves of old."
Gary Hurd discussed Big Risks to Big Fish: "There is growing concern that in spite of the healthy status of several epipelagic (living near the surface) fish stocks, some scombrid (tunas, bonitos, mackerels, and Spanish mackerels) and billfish (swordfish and marlins) species are heavily overfished and that there is a lack of resolve to protect against overexploitation driven by high prices. The main thesis is that those fish stocks that are both high market value, and have long generational times (over 4 to 5 years) are at the greatest risk for extinction from over fishing creating vulnerability, and then an environmental crisis that would finish the species."
In Dawn Chorus, lineatus talked about a new friend in the house in the diary Preoccupied: "A year ago last weekend, we lost our beloved macaw, Amelia. It tore me up and put me into an abyss for months. I looked into the possibility of getting a rescue bird, but it ended up being ridiculously complicated. I took it as a sign that I just needed to spend a few months letting my heart heal. Earlier this year, I bribed myself to finally get around to scheduling a bunch of medical tests (the 'now that you're fifty' suite) by promising myself a new bird once they were all done. Makes sense, really ... want to get a clean bill of health before making a long-term commitment. Once the results came back, I got to work on finding the bird."
wade norris had some tough words for the president in Obama Administration to Polar Bear Scientist/Truth Teller—Shut up, and you are suspended!: "The President is proving once again that he is much better than his predecessor George Bush as a President. When it comes to getting to more oil in pristine environments and silencing critics and whistleblowers."
Ellinorianne missed out on the whales but posted a fun video in Mariachi Connecticut Serenades a Beluga Whale. "It's been a great time to see Blue Whales. Since I stayed home from work today so my husband could take care of some important stuff, I was going to take my daughter whale watching. Needless to say, we didn't make it. I really needed some time on a boat and I really needed to see some blue whales. Both just get me through the craziness, we are blessed to see grays, humpbacks, blue whales and dolphins here in southern California waters. But alas, it wasn't meant to be. But I ran across this video and it made my day a lot better."
Climate Change & Weather Anomalies
For Mary Anne Hitt, it's personal, as she described in As Summer Temperatures Rise, So Does Deadly Coal Pollution: "As the Code Red air quality alerts continue during the heat wave across the country, many families face the fear of asthma attacks in a child or loved one, trigged by high levels of air pollution. As a mom, I've been paying attention to air pollution alerts, and I've been cautious about letting my daughter play outside on Code Red days. One of the biggest sources of that air pollution is coal-fired power plants, which pose an especially immediate threat to our health on hot summer days when soot and smog levels are highest. Burning coal for electricity pollutes our air with toxins that cause asthma, heart disease, and more. One of these pollutants is ozone, which is one of the key ingredients of smog. Yet many Americans still aren't connecting the dots between coal and the smog pollution it creates. So I took to the TV airwaves yesterday to spread the news and call for action. We need stronger air pollution standards from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)."
Calvino Partigiane spotlighted a wannabe's denierism in Pawlenty: Climate Change from 'natural causes': "GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty is now claiming that climate change is something we have to look to the science on. The weight of the evidence is that most of it, maybe all of it, is because of natural causes. He continues his bullshit, garbled response: But at least as to any potential man-made contribution to it, it’s fair to say the science is in dispute. There’s a lot of people who say the majority of the scientists think this way. And there’s a minority that way. And you count the number of scientists versus the quality of scientists and the like. But I think it’s fair to say that, as to whether and how much—if any—is attributable to human behavior, there’s dispute and controversy over it."
Energy
Michael Brune presented Five Easy Ways to Get Clean Energy: "Twelve days ago, the Sierra Club announced a historic partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies and Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, to retire old coal plants and replace them with clean energy. We know that America's use of coal pollutes our air and water, destabilizes our climate, and even pollutes our politics. That's why our aim is to retire at least one-third of our country's coal plants and scale up the clean energy to replace them as fast as we can. And it's also why Mary Anne Hitt's story is so important. When Mary Anne and her husband, Than, calculated how much coal it was taking to power their West Virginia home, the answer shocked them. 'In just one winter month, when our electricity use was especially high,' she says, 'our small, historic house consumed more than four tons of coal.' Mary Anne's day job is directing the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign. You might have seen her introduce Mayor Bloomberg at our announcement late last month. You'll see that she's passionate about ending mountaintop-removal coal mining and shutting down polluting coal-fired plants. But what could she do about the tons of coal figuratively piling up in her own backyard?"
HoundDog wrote three upbeat diaries about solar and wind power. There was 100% Wind and Solar Powered Billboards in London, New York, and Sidney: "So, now we can wallow in, and enjoy crass consumerism on a whole new scale, free from guilt about CO2 emissions, and diverting electricity from residential consumers, at least. Plus, this is creating new 'solar, and wind jobs.'"
And BrightSource Announces a 500 Megawatt Power Tower Solar Plant To Be Built in Mojave Desert: "The solar industry continues to report good news. Recently, we've reported major cost reductions in solar panels on residential rooftops. Today, Todd Woddy reports, in Forbes, that BrightSource Files To Build Second Huge Solar Plant In California, using a recent advance in the other half of the solar industry—that of large scale utility generation using the new molten-salt power towers that allow the plant to continue to generate electricity through the night. And, here 'huge' means 500 megawatts."
Plus Dupont Acquires Innovalight, For Silicon Ink Technology That Boosts Solar Panel Efficiency By 1%: "Keven Bullis, of MIT's Technology Review reports DuPont Inks a Deal to Improve Solar Cells. With the acquisition of Innovalight, 'DuPont will double the size of its $1 billion solar business, and develop new ways to make solar cells.'"
RLMiller gave us reason to worry about another land grab in Those poor disabled hunters.: "[A] hearing the House Energy & Natural Resources Committee [was] held Tuesday on H.R. 1581, the blandly named 'Wilderness and Roadless Release Act of 2011.' The Republicans brought in a carefully choreographed parade of witnesses, including disabled veteran hunters, to create the illusion of diverse, patriotic support for the bill. In reality, the disabled hunters are merely a prop hiding the fossil-fueled real interests behind the Great Outdoors Giveaway."
Muskegon Critic was jazzed about 4000 Charging Stations to Usher In New Era for Electric Cars in his neck of the woods: "Right now the West Michigan Strategic Alliance, lead by Greg Northrup, is pushing West Michigan to lead the way in adopting and manufacturing clean energy technology. The organization has outlined an ambitious plan to install 4000 electric charging stations in 8 West Michigan counties. The goal, of course, is to help usher in a new era for the automobile."
He also had some terrific news in Wind Power Dries Up Demand for Coal Fired Power Plant: "If anybody every asks you if a wind farm ever closed down a coal fired power plant, you can tell them they sure as hell stopped the construction of the Bay County power plant in its tracks. It's a favorite canard of wind farm opponents to suggest that wind power has never shut down a coal fired power plant. Well...they're wrong ... Eastern Michigan has been meeting power demand with renewable energy to the point where there just isn't any energy demand to justify the construction of the 2.3 billion dollar coal fired power plant anymore."
harveywasserman promoted a program that will be live and on the 'net Sunday in Green Music Again Confronts Atomic Power: "Amidst a life-and-death struggle to finally shut the nuclear energy industry, the power of green music flows again this Sunday. It's also pouring over the Internet, as the historic all-day MUSE2 gathering is staged at the Shoreline Amphitheatre south of San Francisco, re-uniting Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Crosby-Stills-Nash, the Doobie Brothers, John Hall, Sweet Honey in the Rock and many more who'll sing to benefit victims of the Fukushima disaster and promote a green-powered Earth. The concert runs from 3pm through the evening Pacific Time and comes as the nuclear power industry desperately seeks federal funding to build new reactors while fighting a tsunami of citizen opposition demanding the shut-down of aging radioactive power stations."
The Real Dim Bulbs Are Republicans, Not CFLs wrote CLRose: "Evidently Schlafly feels the ability to repeal the “law that banishes the Edison light bulb” is a litmus test for the Republican controlled House. The law at issue is the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. That’s 2007. One more time – that’s 2007. Not only was this law’s bulb provision written by a Republican, namely House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair at the time, Fred Upton (R-MI), it was supported in the vote by 49.7% of House Republicans and signed into law by George W. Bush."
Senor Unoball reported that Arctic Ocean Drilling Was Tentatively Approved: "In another beat-down to environmentalists, Shell oil company on Thursday received preliminary approval from the US Department of the Interior to begin drilling exploratory oil wells in waters off of northern Alaska starting next summer. Despite the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, despite a total inability to clean up even much smaller spills on sea ice, drilling may begin in a year."
ThirdandState had a little round-up that included Marcellus Shale, Unemployment and Industrial Diversity: "Mark Price blogged that while oil and gas extraction is helping to reduce unemployment in Pennsylvania, it remains an open question precisely how big the impact is, given how small employment in that sector is relative to an economy that employs 5.8 million people."
uclabruin cheered as Oil Dips Below $90: "Today, Oil dropped below $90 a barrel. And there are brights spots despite mediocre to concerning economic news this morning and this week.The price of a gallon of gas has been a choke collar on the growth of the US economy. Bonddad's blog has been writing some of the best stuff on how oil has been at elevated levels of a percentage of GDP that it would have a negative effect on US growth."
With photos and text, Horace Boothroyd III gave us quick rundown on Windpower a History of Its Uses
Roger Fox asked Policy: How do we get to 20% of electricity from wind in 20 years?: "There seem to be 4 different policy choices to be made if we want to kick start wind power. Tax policy to improve capital flow, carbon pricing, Federally guaranteed loans, and National Mandates. I really want to use tax policy, not just to install gigawatts of wind energy, but to make the turbines in the US, creating the largest number jobs in the US as possible."
And I had a little to say about a project that ought be nixed in Twenty scientists urge President Obama to reject tar-sands pipeline: "Twenty prominent scientists have sent a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to reject an application for a 1661-mile pipeline that would transport tar-sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf Coast."
Green Policy, Green Activism & Politicians
WarrenS talked about his latest published persuasion piece in NYT Prints My Letter on Republican Anti-Environmentalism: "As some folks here know, I have an ongoing environmental-awareness project: each and every day, I write a letter to the editor on some aspect of climate change. I'm now midway through the second year; I began this as a New Year's resolution on January 1, 2010. I've been published widely, as far away as the Solomon Islands, Singapore and New Zealand — and I've seen print in a great many American newspapers, including the WaPo, the Boston Globe, LA Times and the NYT. […] Yesterday, I made the New York Times."
The Natural World & The Great Outdoors
The Daily Bucket Series:
billybush: Weekly Butterfly List: "Eastern Tiger Swallowtails have become the dominant butterfly in my backyard. Males and females, yellow and dark morph are all frequent visitors to the yard. At any given moment, I would consider it unusual to not see two or more feeding at my butterfly bush. Monarchs are a close second, but they'll occasionally stray from the butterfly bush to sample the Zinnias. Two new butterflies this week, Pearl Crescent (Phyciodes tharos) and Eastern Tailed Blue (Cupido comyntas) I wasn't able to get a good picture of the Blue, but the Crescent is pictured …"
enhydra lutris: Lizards Anyone?: "A chance comment the other day led me to realize that I have not seen lizards in the yard or in our Castro Valley, CA neighborhood. Also missing are the small red snakes that the locals call "red racers", and sharp tails. I have seen a few lizards elsewhere this year, one or two on our Heron counting hikes along the Oakland CA side of Lake Chabot, and one or two up North at MacKerricher State Park in early July, but definitely not usual numbers."
enhydra lutris: Molting Begins: "Today, in Hayward, CA, I saw a Magpie which was obviously molting. It was probably at least one week into the molt, so I'm going to put it down as 8/1 - a nice date to start something. 8/1 - Magpies start molting in Hayward, CA."
enhydra lutris : Birds Galore: "Yesterday, 7/31/2011 was grey, drab, cloudy and moderate temperatured with little wind. My wife and I went to the Hayward Shoreline, on the San Francisco Bay (East Side). We didn't go too far or stay too long, and neither did we really try to count anything, for what will become obvious reasons. We got there just about as the tide turned and started coming back in from way out. As we entered we were subsumed in a cloud of swallows. There are two breeding enclaves, one of Barn Swallows and one of Cliff Swallows, and they were everywhere all the time."
belinda ridgewood: Waterlilies: "Every couple of weeks, I take a lovely drive down a back road that runs along the edge of the Great Swamp in Morris County, New Jersey. Every year, one of the things I look forward to is the blooming of the water lily pond. There were a few buds at 4th of July when I drove down to take day lily pictures, so I was not disappointed last week at the full display."
FishOutofWater had explanations and some great photos and a hot video in Kilauea Erupts! Cool USGS Movies:
Ojibwa was out making me jealous again, this time in Glacier National Park: Mountain Goats: "One of the symbols of Glacier National Park is the mountain goat. People who travel up the Going to the Sun Road to Logan Pass are almost sure to see mountain goats from the road, and hikers in the mountain trails often encounter them face-to-face. Recently we rode the shuttle up to the pass and while stopped at a construction site near the pass I shot some pictures of mountain goats through the window."
blueyedace2 took lots of photos on a hot day hiking.
Round-ups, Wrap-ups, Live Blogs & Summaries
Gulf Watchers #542 by Yasuragi: BP Lies, Cheats, Scores Huge in Iraq—BP Catastrophe
Gulf Watchers #543 by peraspera : Study of Gulf gusher's health effects on women—BP Catastrophe
rebel ga: Mountaintop Removal An American Tragedy!
Transportation
Ann Mesnikoff was pleased with the Strong New Fuel Efficiency Standards Announced: "On Friday, President Obama announced a plan to strengthen fuel efficiency and carbon pollution standards for new cars and light trucks to 54.5 mpg by 2025. Back-dropped by an array of high mileage vehicles, the announcement was quite the celebratory event that brought together automakers, auto workers, our go60mpg coalition, staff from EPA, DOT and the White House and members of Congress. As we celebrated on Friday, it is worth remembering that fuel efficiency standards for new cars stalled out for more than two decades. But in a little more than two years in office, President Obama has ensured 15 years of momentum that will double the fuel efficiency of our cars and light trucks and significantly cut tailpipe carbon pollution."
Fukushima Nukes
rja: >10Sv/h - I wouldn't touch it with a 10' pole: Fukushima ROV 64."TEPCO site photo shows greater than 10 Sieverts per hour being measured with a 3-meter-long arm. Picture by gamma ray camera shows two sources of high radiation at the bottom of the exhaust stack for Unit 1 and 2 Reactor Buildings."
HoundDog: China Detects Radiation In Ocean at 10 to 300 Times Normal Levels From Fukushima Nuclear Accident: "Four months after what Japan has admitted has been the largest release of radiation from a nuclear plant in history, the global radiation monitoring efforts continue to be ad hoc, uncoordinated, and spotty. Thanks to Mo Hong'e , editor of XinHuanet English Language News, reports Pacific waters off Japan's Fukushima clearly affected by nuclear crisis: China's oceanic administration, we are hearing about these tests done by the Chinese. But, we now have to wonder why we have not heard continuous similar reports from the Japanese, and the International Atomic Energy Agency?"
