Jack, The hypothesis is total nonsense IMHO.
1) Fuel rods have not been reprocessed in the USA since Jimmy Carter's days. 2) When fuel is reprocessed in the few countries that do it: France, Russia, Japan - every effort is made to capture all the Krypton for resale as it is more valuable than gold for medical and military uses. 3) Most of the 85Kr from atmospheric testing 40-50 years ago and/or Chernobyl has already decayed but there is slightly more in the North than in the South polar region due to these causes. The amount in either place is tiny. I suspect most of it came from Chernobyl 25 years ago - but it is nearly unrelated to melting ice. 4) IIRC Kr is diamagnetic anyway so it would not have much attraction to the poles and it is much denser than air. 5) Methane is the most likely culprit for warming at the poles. It is at least 20 times worse than CO2 for heat retention, but can be released naturally from permafrost. 6) To suggest something other than methane, on almost zero evidence, is suspiciously like the "disinfo" that Big Oil/Opec Boosters would want you to believe, no? These wealthy jerks buy-off scientists all the time, especially in Atmospheric/Climate fields. It is just another PR expense for the BOOBs. Jones -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Hi All, 9-20-10 I curious what you think of the enclosed below. Jack Smith ---------------- Leroy Ellenberger <[email protected]> wrote on 9-20-10: ``Subject: [velikov] The Mechanics of Catastrophe: Greenland & Antarctica There is little doubt that the polar ice is melting. There is however, considerable room for debate about why. The conventional view that the whole earth is getting warmer because of a supposed "greenhouse effect" from a build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere from combustion of fossil fuels is not really supported by the evidence. Neither is the usual dismissal of the warming trend as only another stage in a long-term natural cycle caused by variation in the output of solar energy. The warming of the poles is clearly of human origin, but is also clearly NOT caused by any "greenhouse effect" from burning of coal and oil. What I think it is, is the widespread use of nuclear power. The reprocessing of nuclear reactor fuel rods releases a radioactive gas, Kr85, into the atmosphere. This gas goes up to higher levels, so it is considered harmless to life at the surface. No effort is therefore made to contain it. As a radiuoactive gas, it consists of charged particles. When charged particles enter the field of a magnet, they migrate to the poles. Since the earth is a giant bar magnet, the Kr85 tends to collect at the poles. There, at high altitudes, it interacts with the natural high charge at that altitude, resulting in a net increase in charge of the poles. Strong tropical storms, including those that become strong enough to be classed as huricanes, form near the equator. These storm systems are highly charged systems. How far they travel toward the poles depends on two factors: the strength of the charge of the storm, and that of the pole that is attracting them poleward. As charge builds up at the poles, these tropical storms are being attracted farther and farther towartd the poles, bringing tropical heat with them. This transport of heat from the tropics toward the poles is warming up the polar regions and giving the illusion that the entire earth is getting warmer ... Anyone interested in further and more detailed discussion of this hypothesis and relatedideas is invited to join the Orgonomic Ecology List at [email protected]'' On Sun, 9/19/10, Leroy Ellenberger <[email protected]> wrote: ``The September 30th issue of ROLLING STONE magazine (cover photo of Roger Waters) runs a very detailed and informative article by Ben Wallace-Wells whose cover extolls: "Vanishing Ice Sheets: Global Warming's Ticking Time Bomb": ON THE ICE: The world's two great ice sheets are melting faster than anyone believed possible THE MECHANICS OF CATASTROPHE: Scientists suspect that the world's glaciers are held in place by huge ice shelves, which act like corks in a champagne bottle. As the shelves crash into the sea, the glaciers behind them are sliding out into the ocean at an alarming rate THE NEW SCIENCE indicates that melting glaciers could turn 153 million people into refugees. "Nature is resolving some of these arguments for us," says one geoscientist. Something had changed: Fish that favor warmer waters began appearing in unprecedented numbers off Greenland. The article starts on p. 60 and runs for eleven pages. I could not find a URL to an on-line version.''
