A Prophecy of Doom: by Bernie Lopez
Let us first take a quick helicopter view of the massive mysterious killing of marine life in the entire North Pacific — hundreds of birds dead in St. Lawrence in November 2013; seals, walruses and polar bears in Alaskan shoreline losing hair with oozing sores and bloody mucuous; dramatic decrease of sockeye salmon in the Skeena River in British Columbia from 2.1 million to 450,000, which may trigger famine among ethnic communities; Pacific herring bleeding from gills and eyeballs in British Columbia; bird kills of thousands of barn and violet-green swallows in Oregon; high mortality rate and puzzling changes in killer whale pods in British Columbia. All these have a dramatic effect on the ocean food chain on a massive scale.
An Australian nomad named Macfadyen constantly criss-crossing the Pacific said, “After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead. I’ve done a lot of miles on the ocean in my life and I’m used to seeing turtles, dolphins, sharks and big flurries of feeding birds. But this time, for 3000 nautical miles there was nothing alive to be seen.” Macfadyen also reported “garbage in astounding volumes”, believed to be remnants of the Fukshima-Sendai tsunami.
There are no conclusive studies on the causes of this massive marine kills, but Alaskans suspect the Fukushima leaks are the culprit. The symptoms described above hint so. Today, 400 liters of high-radiation water are being dumped into the ocean daily at Fukushima. This is because, since the tsunami, the temperature of the nuclear fuel casings have to be cooled with sea water to avoid a massive explosion. The giant pools holding the radiated water are beyond capacity. The pipes and pumps are leaking. The Japanese and US government are reluctant to give the true picture of an unfolding environmental cataclysm beyond imagination.
There are two major ocean currents, the Kuroshio from the south, and the Oyshio from the north, which merge eastward, passing near Fukushima, then split into two sub-currents, north to Alaska, and south to California. Medical experts report the rise of diseases among children and of cancer in California after the Fukushima breakdown, although there are no conclusive studies, as of this writing (Dec 2013).
The cesium-137 nuclear fuel of Fukushima has a half-life of 30 years (time for nuclear fuel to dissipate half of its volume through radiation), promising a long term impact on the Pacific, whose area is a quarter of the Earth’s, and whose water is about half of the two-thirds water of the planet. Long term impact of a radiated Pacific Ocean may include loss of a third of marine life, and famines across the entire Pacific rim. Are we seeing one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse galloping towards us?