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Is light pollution killing our birds......????????
Read the Challenge pdf - "Is Light Pollution Killing Our Birds?" (and other animals)! It has been doing so for over 114 years. According to the Times of London the English songbird, the cuckoo, is now on the IUCN Red List, moreover Colin Tudge agrees in the Telegraph, July 2010, although it has taken 114 years to get there, apparently? Professor Gerhard Eisenbeis remarked in 2006 that the light at night of the 24 hour day "sucks insects to their deaths like a vacuum cleaner"! (Professor Gerhard Eisenbeis, in Rich and Longcore, p. 283). So ALL insectivores, and not just English songbirds, are likely to die from simple starvation? BTW the house sparrow and starling, as is the cuckoo, are "threatened"?STARGAZING Live with the BBC from Jodrell Bank , and THE GREAT BIG DULVERTON SWITCH-OFF Yippee.........! This programme gave this site a HIT high last year of 119 - this year the HIT high was 163 - thanks Brian and the BBC. How about doing an anti LP piece of music with composer Christian Vassie, editor of Challenge magazine and Dr. Brian May playing guitar along with Professor Brian Cox playing keyboard? The BBC play anti LP? (Brian, Brian and Christian - that is ?). BTW, with the LP this Christmas, Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, is completely REDUNDENT. Santo did not need Rudolph's RED nose to light the way - the LP did that for him. Moreover with no Arctic sea ice his elves will have to swim for it - just like the polar bears, apparently? BTW does this have any "political" overtones? "Pray there is intelligent life in space cos we've been cheated here on Earth!" - Eric Idle's Galaxy song from Clint Black says it all. We don't need Professor Brian Cox to know the real truth - we see it all around us - except at night when we are unable to see the Universe because of the anthropogenic light pollution that costs us billions - remarkable, huh? US Government - EHP- Missing the Dark: Health Effects of Light Pollution - so now you know, apparently, BUT do YOU? Burglars afraid of the dark? Crime falls when Bristol street lights are turned off, apparently? So that the BAA/CfDS has been correct all along - we told them so but they would not listen - a bit like the air pollution issue - the smallest unregulated particles are the deadliest, apparently; we really will be JTL? My astronomical society, ADAS, took their scopes to Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre Saturday night, 26th November. We joined the MAS and LAS to show public visitors the belts of Jupiter and the Jovian moons. A good time was had by all when they got their glimpses of Jupiter through brief gaps in the wind blown clouds. At least it didn't rain. We understood that the 250 foot Lovell was looking at the Crab Nebula whilst we looked at Jupiter - neat huh? Some of the pictures from Saturday at Jodrell are now my Facebook photos page that you can access from its link below. Wecome. The Enormous Environmental Consequences of Artificially Lighting Up the Night - Leo Smith. We have been doing it for over 114 years, warned about it for decades and no-one cares - period! Why? Please find time to examine this new light pollution web site from Macclesfield AS - MyDarkSky! MEGALUX lighting have re-published the Challenge article from 2006 - thanks guys and all the best with your lighting endeavours! Should we light up the night sky like daylight - or should it be no more than the Full Moon? Read more here.Food for thought? How much will warming raise seas? Greenland ice is key BTW sparrow expert, Denis Summers-Smith "believes some extra phenomenon is making the young birds "unviable" and he thinks he knows what it may be: air pollution and, especially, particulates, the microscopic soot particles produced by diesel exhausts. " All of which are unregulated because they are smaller than PM2.5 - the current legal regulated particle size limit, apparently?You may well have read that climate change will compromise food production - well Colin Tudge predicted this in 2008. We really will be JTL before anyone in power wakes up to future reality, apparently?Read more in Late Breaking down this page below.This page has been translated into Mauritian-Creole by Colin Henshaw and into Belarussian by Bohdan Zograf. Thanks guys - Graham Cliff.WWF Earth Hour 2011 - the 4th Anniversay - but will anyone care - I doubt it. My web site tracking software shows that many are asking Google about "The USA from space at night". Real nice that this takes people to this web site's pages - neat huh? BTW the webmaster Graham Cliff is now on Facebook - have a look HERE - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2087342&id=1267103040&saved This album now has 82 images. Although the message is getting out, apparently? The latest video from Science Museum that unnecessary artificial light at night (unnecessary ALAN) is reducing where the wider implications of the LP problem is understood? Light pollution: the "hidden" harm and Insects: we would do well to remember them? Well frankly we haven't done at all well to remember them, apparently? I have just heard that J. A Allen, in Science of 1886 said that "It is only when man comes upon the scene that nature's balance is seriously disturbed." What an irony that such a modern statement is 124 years old? Allen's article title was "The Present Wholesale Destruction of Bird-Life in the United States". They are still talking about this issue today. By the time they do something it will be JTL - Just Too Late, apparently? Read more in LATE BREAKING down page! Environmetal Protection UK do a downloadable pdf leafletet HERE about light pollution. But please do not forget that you can reduce unnecessary light at night, which causes light pollution, by turning off lights which are not needed (Carbon Trust pdf). The UK Government wants ideas to save money and energy - I told them HERE to turn OFF unnecessary vanity lighting - simple huh? If you want more then read this - The change of the Light Brigade - Mancunians are being asked to spotlight the city's energy wasters by tipping-off campaigners to those buildings that leave their lights on at night (the video). You can email this story to friends with the link top LHS of the BBC page. All that is needed is to switch OFF unnecessary (even vanity) lighting at night, simple huh? The BBC - Night time creatures in crisis. The history of light pollution has been much older than you might imagine? The really serious problem is that NO ONE will research this insect decline hypothesis and the more widespread "hidden" harm that is being done. Read HERE that no-one has listened for at least 113 year in my "last missive"! BTW, did YOU know that dead insects, even today, can be found piling "knee deep"? Just like Copenhagen, the climate summit, 2009 - no one listens - we will be JTL - Just Too Late! A vicious circle of decline? - Just as Colin Henshaw said in 1994! (Media interests look HERE - some URLs are now redundant- sorry). A reminder of IDA member David Crawford from 1991 - the warnings are repeated at regular intervals - they are just IGNORED - we really will be JTL! Dark skies over Lymm - Chris Reeves wins back the night for Lymm, Cheshire, in 2010. Shelly Quinton-Hulme, in Stretford, Manchester, England, friend of Victoria Park, tells me that she joined in with World Earth Hour - did YOU? Scotland and Earth Hour are here with video. Shelly and friends at Victoria Park will hold a moth watch, 15th May 2010. Butterfly and bat night will follow in August. BTW the oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico is making people aware of the harm of pollution. Did you know that light pollution affects turtles too? There Once Was A Sky Full Of Stars - the video from Chile (with English subtitles) about the book from Bob Crelin. I am glad that I was a kid 50 years ago when I could see the stars and the sky at night. Very few kids can do so today, apparently? Another book for kids is available now, The Great Year - Understanding 2012 and Beyond by Ian Thorp. A few words from a chapter dealing with the issue of light pollution goes like this "Where I live it's very difficult to see the stars because of all the street light" said Jack. "Sorry to hear that, Jack - said the Captain". The Captain goes on to state that "Even now in your 21st Century there are a few who think everywhere should be artificially lit at night. But more recently many are in favour of reducing this light pollution or removing it all together"! Many thanks to Ian Thorp. BTW we have ignored the concept that circadian disruption in the environment is damaging for over 113 years - is the mobile phone having similar "hidden" effects NOW? Perhaps politicians and more scientists should be better focussing their research? Please do not forget Late Brealing a few scrolls below! Colin Henshaw has created a Mauritian Creole translation of this page HERE - enjoy! The pdf version is HERE. The header article is from Challenge magazine, Summer 2006. Over five years on, Atumn, 2011, things have changed. People now think that turning off UNNECESSARY lights at night is a GOOD idea. Or fit PIR lighting controls on street lights. At last the penny is maybe dropping? BTW we have a Late Breaking News segway a few scrolls down this page. Please give it a coat of looking at. Thanks. I give the definition of UNNECESSARY from Collins dictionary HERE. At PMQs 28-Oct-2009 Gordon Brown said he WILL turn off lights on Downing Street for the CfDS - WHEN? He seemed to be remarkably patronising! BTW Parliament had a discussion 29 Oct 2009 on Light Pollution - Oral Answers To Questiosn - Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. More COMPLACENCY and ignorance from UK Government? Listen to Mr. Peter "Lights ON" Hain, MP - HERE! Learn more of the Government complacency, once again from PM Gordon Brown, as a 17 year old asks about light pollution, in the Leicester Mercury HERE. Robin Bonell, half way down the page, had first been described as an "astrologer" until this correction HERE!. PS Copenhagen WILL BE A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME - see Late Breaking below. It WAS - Malini Mehra described Copenhagen, for the BBC, as the Munich of OUR Times - sad that the opportunity was apparently lost? Light Pollution - The Problem. Dr John Mason's video's excerpt from Portsmouth, 2006. Dr. Darren Baskill has placed new video links HERE to a selection from 2006. He tells me that he is adding even more - 19 October 2009. They are HERE now! BTW LP as an historic problem can be traced back to 1897 - YES 1897! Astronomers use the term ‘light pollution’ or LP (sometimes also called light at night or LAN) to describe the effect of artificial night lighting obscuring the stars. Professor Fred Watson, author of “Why Is Uranus Upside Down?", gives his thoughts on light pollution and astronomy but he also expresses the wider concerns to be found here and in other web pages. BTW the first UK Dark Sky sites have been inaugurated in Scotland. National Assembley For Wales - Supports the British Astronomical Association’s Campaign for Dark Skies - the CfDS. Further to this Galloway Forest is up for an IDA Dark Sky Park award -The Times - well done Galloway! Galloway Forest NOW HAS its Dark Sky Status. Use Dan Nixon's Dark Sky Simulator to see just how good the GF really is HERE. - The GF is between Glasgow and Stranraer. Learn what YOU are missing in this VIDEO from the USA! BLINDED BY THE LIGHT? The CfDS hanbook describing the wider consequencies of the 24 hour day. You may have already read the frontispiece. Now you can buy the handbook itself. Bob Mizon, MBE and I co-edited the handbook, published in 2009, and which many famous people now possess. Available from The CfDS, c/o 38 The Vineries, Colehill, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 2PX, United Kingdom. Here in the UK the unit price is about £3 per copy, including post and packaging. Over 70 copies were given to Armagh delegates and more recently environmentalists at a meeting in Cardiff received delegate copies as well - I hope that people read them? If they do not then we really will be JTL. Profs Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, Mike Edmunds, Monica Grady and astronomy historian Dr. Alan Chapman have their copies - do YOU? Even Labour Leader (ex-Shadow Climate Secretary), MP Ed Miliband has a copy - as does Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, MP and his deputy Dr. Vince Cable, MP (his is signed by the webmaster because he signed my copy of his book, The Storm! ). Even Trafford MP, Graham Brady has a copy. He likes chapter 4 best, which deals with the harm that ALAN can do to human health. Sadly a few climate change "experts" want to keep the lights on, apparently? But at least they all now have copies of "Blinded by the Light?" I hope that they and Mike McCarthy, Julian Rush, David Hone, John Sauven, Chris Beardshaw and Tom Burke read it to learn why "keeping the lights on" is so harmful.NB - The 9th European Dark Sky conference, Armagh Northern Ireland, 18-19 September 2009. Professor Steve Lockley spoke LIVE from Harvard Medical Center. This was a FANTASTIC Dark Sky Symposium - the BEST ever. Children from Mount St. Catherine's Primary School, Armagh sing Starry, Starry Night on Youtube to remind us of what we have lost. You can access the conference presentations as the web site develops its archive. A MUST for environmentalists, astronomers and those who care (which may also include politicians - Colin Tudge's "public enemy NUMBER ONE"?). Enjoy the archive when it is up and running. Have a look here at the Galaxy That We Have Lost to LP/LAN - our own, the Milky Way. Time Lapse Video of what is lost! - as seen from a site in Idaho.Francis Parnell suggested - 'Since the "natural environment" after sunset is darkness, maybe we should call it what it really is - night pollution.' Is the 24 hour day killing off "Life On Earth"? It appears that National Geographic agree with some aspects of these concepts? And so too does Starry Night Lights! BTW LP/LAN is killing biodiversity in Old Saigon? Now known as Ho Chi Minh City. Here you can read the quote that "In the long term, light pollution will possibly have DANGEROUS effects on ecological diversity" If the Vietnam URLs fail try this HERE! - (LA Times said the same 1897!) And someone in Can Tho, Minh Hai, Vietnam has Googled "reduce light in the UK" and found this web site. I hope that they link to the Ho Chi Minh City site? This movie, of LP in the US of A, from 1950 thru 2025, is fantastic HERE. Just scroll a little bit down the page to access the movie. The webmaster has created an (inferior) version for Europe HERE. Please excuse the political irony at the video end. The City "Domes" of Wasted Energy Which Should Be Charging Our EVs and WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? by Chris Paine You can buy the DVD here in the UK for only £4.43 P+P free. A very big THANK YOU to this web site's visitors. It is now just over 5 years old and it gets an average of just over 2 "HITS" every hour after those 5 years (it can be as high as 3/hour) - neat huh? You have HIT it ~94,231 times since 30 August 2006 when I created it. Visitors (including reloads) are now listed by Extreme Tracking as being at ~148,730. I travelled Thursday night, two weeks ago, to Heaton Park and a STARGAZING LIVE astronomy event - real neat! Friday night, last week, I met with the BBC team behind Stargazing Live at MOSI, Manchester, England). My site currently has over 59 hits per day, Snrday 5th February, 2012. STARGAZING Live with Prof Brian Cox and the BBC from Jodrell Bank and The Great Big Dulverton Switch Off , was 16,17 and 18 January, 2012, when my site hits trebled, whilst 2012 is also Olympics Year in the UK, although if London's air quality does not improve they may have to ban traffic, just like they did in Beijing 4 years ago, apparently? Santa BTW didn't need Rudolph to light his way Christmas Eve - the LP did that for him and Rudolph today is REDUNDENT! Sad isn't it? And we now head towards Summer - yippee! (We are now a little while after the 10th anniversary of 9/11- look at the dust from the WTC in this David Scharf SEM image HERE. And some of those who breathed this dust are dying today - very sad) - We are now just 2.5 months off of Earth Hour 2012 and over 50 years since Yuri Gagarin went into space (my Mum once shook his hand when he visited the capital of the north, Manchester, England). Sadly far less interest in Earth Hour last year (2871 versus over 5000 in 2010 and over 6000 in 2009!), than in previous years. This site had only ~30% of its EH hits compared with previous years - very sad! BTW My site has "HIT" over 92,000 in nearly 5 years! Neat huh? It should hit over 92,576 by the end of this year - how "Frank Sidebottom" fantastic is that? Sad though that so few realise the truth about LP/ALAN, BUT the truth does not have any sell by date, apparently? With Earth Hour March last year, my web site exceeded 61,000! What will happen with WWF Earth Hour, March 2011? (Sadly we got tolerant complacency - period). On a more positive note, I returned September 2010, from the fantastic 10th European Dark Sky Symposium in Kaposvár, Hungary. Fantastic indeed, just like Armagh in 2009 and my first conference, Portsmouth 2006. Mihaly Janos Varro in Hungary, 2010, gave a superb summary of the circadian disruption problem caused by LAN - it will not be long before LAN, and not "shift work" per se, is declared to be a Group 2A carcinogen. Lawyers wake up - where there's blame is there a claim? BTW last year's Dark sky sumposium discussed ALA/LP and human health (again!) . You can watch the video HERE from the 9th European Dark Sky Conference . Here you can watch Professor Steve Lockley, from Harvard Medical School, discuss the harm that sleep deprivation does to human health! The 9th European Dark Sky Symposium, in Armagh, NI, 18-19 September, 2009, was just "brilliant"! My JTL presentation can be found HERE, about 1hr10mins into the video, after BATS and TURTLES! Did YOU follow the last Dark Sky Symposium in Hungary? BTW the 2011 Dark Sky Conference was hosted in Osnabruck, Germany in 2011. Pleaae view its web site URL HERE. There is more in this PDF on my web site HERE. Please tell your friends about the hidden "passive" harm caused by light at night (LAN), often called light pollution (LP). Although strictly LP is a SYMPTOM of LAN. Moreover tell others why turning OFF UNNECESSARY, repeat UNNECESSARY, artificial light at night is good for everyone and good for Life, the Universe and Everything. If we do not then maybe LAN will become the "new"asbestos (from an idea of Dr. Barry Clark, Australia)? With massive, unnecessary, litigation cases wasting more money. (It has already been the "new" DDT for over 113 years?). My JTL Armagh presentation, as a single video, can be viewed HERE. The pdf version can be loaded HERE - enjoy? Hopefully YOU will not be too depressed - if we can educate our leaders we will succeed. The future is up to YOU! Please do NOT fail that future. BACK TO THE FUTURE - Living today the future that was predicted in 1994? - or even 1897 " Lights (at night) could well eliminate insects over a large area. As the insect population declines, this will have an effect on the predators higher up in the food chain which feed on them. This would include many birds, lizards and frogs and small mammals (including bats). These effects would be above and beyond those already caused by loss of habitat through urbanisation. Many insects are pollinators of flowering plants, so as the insect population goes down the number of flowers successfully pollinated may also decline. This will lead to fewer plants and less plant diversity in years to come. Since many insects feed on plants the size of the insect population will further decline as we have fewer plants. A similar observation was made in September 1897 - YES that is right September 1897 acording to the LA Times. (Information courtesy of Dr. Travis Longcore, Urban Wildlands Group, California, USA). You can read the transcript as a DOC file HERE. Did you know that Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest corroborated this observation in the Independent, January 2010. Thanks Heather and Nigel - good on yer! BTW Wikipedia carries this page describing the decline of an English songbird NOW! They have been in decline for 114 years - no-one listened then and no-one listens now - a bit like Copenhagen? I have just heard that J. A Allen, in Science of 1886 said that "It is only when man comes upon the scene that nature's balance is seriously disturbed." What an irony that such a modern statement is 124 years old? Allen was discussing "The Present Wholesale Destruction of Bird-Life in the United States". Nothing changes - just the populations of birds, as so many decline, apparently? < - - LATE BREAKING - - >FOR THOSE NEW TO THIS SITE, LIGHT AT NIGHT CAN BE ENERGY WASTE (WHICH COSTS US MILLIONS) - THIS ADDS TO GLOBAL WARMING, "NO LONGER A THEORY, BUT A HARSH REALITY" SO REDUCE CLIMATE CHANGE BY TURNING OFF UNNECESSARY ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AT NIGHT (aka ALAN) You can read the definiton of UNNECESSARY from Collins dictionary HERE. Please know the FACTS of light pollution/light at night & tell friends. BTW LAN is emerging as a "possible" carcinogen, apparently? Read about unnecessary LAN, and the Light Brigade, in Manchester, England HERE.And yet more risks with climate change - A study released Sunday afternoon finds that wheat crop yields could plunge due, in part, to climate change. US Thirst for Fossil Fuels is Decimating Nature's Wildlife: Report Nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. Reduced snow falls in Arizona - Climate Change Ripples Through Mountain Ecosystems, LIVE SCIENCE. Global warming - Francis Parnell, South Carolina, tells me that Goodbye, Fish: Rising CO2 Direct Threat to Sea Life Study: Rising CO2 affecting brains, central nervous systems of sea fish Wednesday 18th January, 2012. Professor Brian Cox STARGAZES Live with the BBC from Jodrell Bank , and THE GREAT BIG DULVERTON SWITCH-OFF - Dark Sky Discovery will be supporting some of these events and creating awareness around the importance of dark skies. Astronomer and Stargazing LIVE presenter Mark Thompson will ask everyone in Dulverton to turn off their lights as part of the Great Big Dulverton Switch Off! The aim is to reveal the amazing dark skies and stars visible without any pollution from artificial light and to share these with the rest of the UK. Residents of Dulverton will be gathering to investigate their newfound visibility of the skies and to celebrate in their town square. FYI - Sunspots from 1630 - CLICK on the thumbnails - science really is old! - BTW I hope that you will ALL be watching STARGAZING LIVE on the Internet , Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 16th, 17th & 18th January 2012 on BBC TV? WOW - maybe it really doesn't matter what we do here on planet Earth? - "El Gordo" and its friends will be the future? "El Gordo," could one day reveal secrets about the invisible dark matter that fills the universe", researchers said. Climate Change - Underestimating being JTL for lots of animals. Extinction From Climate Change Underestimated - Luve Science. Just as I have been saying on these pages for nearly 6 years! JTL = Just Too Late.................. PLANET EARTH - our home that we are killing simply because of corporate greed and ignorance. Just why do we tolerate this? Edmund Burke in 1770 is credited with stating that when evil men act, honest men need not to remain silent - at least something like that. Don't be silent - if we kill Mother Earth then where else do we have, period? “There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.” — Edmund Burke We really will be JTL - Published on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 by Inter Press Service - No Time Left to Adapt to Melting Glaciers - by Stephen Leahy. This information courtesy of Francis Parnell, SC, USA - thanks Francis, good on you and no worries until JTL applies. Dark skies. A paper expressing Limiting the impact of light pollution on human health, environment and stellar visibility - white lamps (MH and LEDs) would produce an increase of pollution in the scotopic and melatonin suppression bands of more than five times the present levels, supposing the same photopic installed flux. This increase will exacerbate known and possible unknown effects of light pollution on human health, environment and on visual perception of the Universe by humans. "Pray there is intelligent life in space cos we've been cheated here on Earth!" - Eric Idle's Galaxy song from Clint Black says it all. We don't need Professor Brian Cox to know the real truth - we see it all around us - except at night when we are unable to see the Universe because of the anthropogenic light pollution that costs us billions - remarkable, huh? Is light pollution killing birds? - period! No subtley here - Thousands of migratory birds were killed or injured after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot, football fields and other snow-covered areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground in what one state wildlife expert called the worst mass bird crash she'd ever seen. Light pollution is directly effecting people all over the UK.. Why does it affect me? We NEED biomass incineration to keep the lights on, apparently? However nanoparticles, microscopic specks so tiny that hundreds equal the width of a human hair, are emitted by high temperature biomass burning. Nanoparticles, a tenth of a micron or less, present new challenges to human health. Slipping through all the body’s defense mechanisms, nanoparticles cross the placenta and blood-brain barriers, by "novel non-phagocytic mechansims, as implied in other papers that the webmaster has read.. We are now past the last day of the Durban climate conference - Malini Mehra has sent me this about the Grim Reaper of Durban - the subcontinent of INDIA, apparemtly? And not just the Arctic is suffering from climate change -TIME Science - Climate Change in Chile - Images show big retreat of Chile glacier. The police chief of Rockford, Ill., where about 15 percent of the streetlights have been removed, said he's seen no evidence that crime increased when streetlights were removed. But it's something the city will keep an eye on. City managers said they worked with the police and engineering departments to study which streetlights should be removed, the Rockford Register Star reported - 14th November, 2011. Read a little way below that the same effect has been seen in Bristol, England, where crime actually reduced - neat huh, when the truth prevails and myth does NOT? (cf HORS 251 - a Govtnmrnt report here in the UK). Extraordinary Films of the Earth at Night from the ISS. Time lapse sequences taken with a low-light camera by the crew of Expeditions 28 & 29 aboard the International Space Station from August to October 2011. Truly extraordinary, but the amount of light pollution shining up into the cosmos is painful to watch........................! Even NASA now thinks the Arctic ice will melt and so Santa Claus really will have to swim for it with the polar bears, apparently! Two degrees of warming will lead to an ice-free Arctic and sea-level rise in the tens of meters, Hansen told LiveScience. Poor old Santa Claus - his Winter home on the ice at the North Pole will soon be gone - Poor old Santa and his elves! They will just have to join the polar bears, and simply swim for it. But then Santa has "magic" at Christmas - sadly polar bears have none, apparently? Burglars afraid of the dark? Crime falls when Bristol street lights are turned off, apparently? So that the BAA/CfDS has been correct all along - we told them so but they would not listen - a bit like the air pollution issue - the smallest unregulated partciles are the deadliest, apparently; we really will be JTL? Now this really is good news - Homer Glen, Illinois becomes 3rd Dark Sky community in the US - very well done Hpmer Glen. You can read more about Homer Glen a way down this HOME page. The story at the Homer Glen web site states that "Light pollution interferes with star gazing, astronomy, ecosystems and human circadian rhythms, while wasting $2.2 billion in energy annually in the United States, according to the IDA’s website." So now you know, or do you? On a pro rata basis that means about £275 million here in the UK? This could help cut the NHS spending deficits, apparently, if it wasn't wasted ANNUALLY, apparently? I just canot believe it - there is a an on-going debate on whether to light up Stonehenge at NIGHT! Why? Just more wasted energy for mere vanity, apparently? In a word those with the power waste OUR money - because they can get away with it - just like the bankers - full stop! Folks - someone in Wichita, Kansas, USA asked Google this question - light pollution is not a problem - they got over 41 million pages - I hope that they realise now that LP really IS a problem - just like climate change. - I just hope that they will be dead BEFORE they realise that they are the problem, apparently - period? We have had the failure of Copenhage - do we now face increasing future failure once again in Durban? - At Durban, the Big Emitters Will No Doubt Fail Us Again on Climate Change For the big emitters it is now a zero-sum game. The poor hold all the moral cards and will undoubtedly play to the galleries back home. The US and Europe, already looking like a wounded, shabby elite representing the 1%, will be pilloried. NATIONAL GEOPGRPHIC - Giant Sunspot Aimed Directly At Earth - so what's the problem then, huh? Greenhouse gases soar; no signs warming is slowed - we really will be JTL, apparently? Are you feeling less energetic, craving more carbohydrates and chocolate and sleeping longer in bed? Then perhaps the encroaching darkness, as autumn gives way to winter, is affecting your natural body rhythms. While many animals are preparing to hibernate, who would blame people for feeling ready to go into sleep mode too? Perhaps you are merrely a victim of circadian disruption and no more? Associated Press story repeated here "Unable to pay bill, Highland Park (Mich. City) turn off the lights" Perhaps GOOD - Because modern society is already paying the "hidden" environmental bill of the unssustainable 24 hour day, apparently? The big problem for me is that this suburb of Detroit is poor - once again the poor suffer most. It would have been much better if it had happened in Beverly Hills, or even better still in perhaps San Francisco, Miami, Washington DC, New York, Boston and even Chicago as well. The monies that are saved being used to alleviate poverty, perhaps? So that the poor can pay their bills! There are no "canaries in the coal mine at sea" - but is there seaweed substituting for canaries? Read this from Live Science and see what YOU think? Maybe seaweed is the modern "canary"? REUTERS - Warming could exceed safe levels in this lifetime. BUT what are safe levels and where will they be "SAFE" and "UNSAFE"? Is this more proof that we are well on our to being JTL - Just To Late? As humans spread, we leave scant room or resources for other species. "There is good evidence that we are in the sixth massive species extinction of the history of the planet, because of the incredible amount of primary production that we take as a species to maintain 7 billion of us," A few observations from Live Science 20th October 2011. The Lost Years of Climate Change: Are We Just Going to Talk Our Way to Oblivion?YES, sadly we are simply going to be JTL - Just Too Late - so let us have a laugh on our way to that OBLIVION? Are YOU a comic nut (TV cartoons and nespapers)? I am - I really like this one HERE - 1) There's gotta be more stars in the night skies? 2) The urban light pollution obscures our view! 3) We'll just have to do something about that. 4) It's good to be King isn't it? - It doesn't suck! And lo - there was no more LP in this Over The Hedge cartoon by Mike Taylot & T. Lewis. Unnecessary light at night has got worse (much worse?) from 2007 to 2011 - according to the CPRE. Have a Look at their Orion star count maps for the UK in 2007 and 2011 HERE. BTW The CPRE have their dark skies LP page HERE. BTW according to many people We need Sustainable Electricity - just to Keep The Lights ON? (Dr. Walt Pattersons, author, does not agree - he uses the term as jargon for maintaining supply, apparently).). However biomass incineration, (combustion in general, but particularly biomass incineration), contributes to UNREGULATED nanoparticle emissions. Hence, it is essential to clarify which particulate emissions from combustion processes have a deep toxic influence on human body to optimise these firing processes. WE might keep the lights on but at the same time we will be causing more than just LP, apparently? (NB - Dr. Patterson also tells me that he has little interest in biomass incineration). And there's more - 'Tidal wave' of sleep disorders - perhaps some of the problem is not just obesity BUT perhaps circadian disruption caused by the 24 hour day - Professor Steve Lockley, CfDS handbook "Blinded by the Light?" chapter 4, 2009. I think that I have said something like this before, apparently? Forests across the world dying off as climate warms - even if they are not being burnt as fuel! Experts are scrambling to understand why forests in the U.S. and across the world are being devastated by fire, heat, drought, disease and floodsHere in the UK we are having the hottest period of hot weather for years - and of course this has NOTHING to do with global warming, according to the cynics. I just hope that they will be the ones to suffeer. Sadly like the bankers they will be bailed out by the rest of us! Disruption of our naturally evolved light and dark cycles can result in a wide range of physiological and behavioral changes with potentially serious medical implications. In this article we will discuss several mechanisms through which light at night may exert its effects on cancer, mood, and obesity, as well as potential ways to ameliorate the impact of light at night. The latest science on the subject - September, 2011! BTW the Arctic Ice is disappearing even faster than ever - and no-one will care until it is too late - Jus Too Late or as we say - JTL! And there's more, apparently. Canadian Arctic nearly loses entire ice shelf My friend in the USA, Fransis Parnell tells me that he has heard that "An Eye In The Sky Spies A Polluted Planet"! Well I know how polluted it is and that we do NOT regulate the particles causing the problems. Nanoparticles, which cause nanotoxicity and give rise to nanotoxicoloy and thus nanopathology, are the problem. They are TOTALLY unregulated by air quality regulations which are arbitrary and without medical rationale. I know, because I have been an aerosol nanoanalyst for over 38 years. If the pollution story is too much because of its profound scientific implications then just look at the images of LP from space at this URL to be found at the foot of the air pollution story at Live Science. I have told you so for years but no-one has listened - LIGHT POLLUTION HARMFUL TO PUBLIC HEALTH -A new international study has found that exposure to white LED bulbs is significantly more harmful to public health than exposure to the orange-yellow light emitted by high pressure sodium bulbs. You can read the background science explained by Professor Steve Lockley in the CfDS handbook "Blineded by the Light?"! Climate chnage is hitting the USA, apparently? National Weather Service meteorologist Victor Murphy told The Associated Press that Texas' 86.8 degree Fahrenheit average beat out Oklahoma's 85.2 degrees in 1934. Will we be JTL and is the reason CLIMATE CHANGE? Irene is estimated to have caused $7 billion in damages, things could have been a lot worse. And atmospheric scientists say they will be. California - Moving Forward - LAGUNA BEACH – Residents plagued by their neighbors' outdoor lights will soon be able to ask the city to dim the glare. Bye bye glacial Arctic - Greenland's glaciers keep shrinking as higher surface temperatures have created record mass losses in 2010 and 2011, researchers announced this week. Louis Scott Busby agrees that LP is not a good idea. Read his classical arguments HERE. BTW it is already JTL for the walrus - they now have to come ashore because there is NO Arctic sea ice. Told you so! And Professor Peter Buseck thinks that we can blame anthropogenic SOOT! Neat huh? And there is more - How much will warming raise seas? Greenland ice is key The UN agrees with me, apparently "The key facts on global warming are already known and leaders should not wait for the next edition of the UN climate panel's report to step up action, the body's top scientist told AFP." BTW it really does look as if the Arctic ice environment is JTL - Just Too Late to be saved? Apparently the Arctic sea ice is MELTING at its fastest rate EVER! Live Science - 2011:HEADED FOR RECORD ARCTIC MELT? We just do not learn - Study finds ‘natural shields’ weakened - so climate change may well be worse than has been predicted, apprently?An interesting story, sourced by OLFer Francis Parnell,about Belgium reconsidering its 100 per cent highway lighting at night - Belgium's highways shine into space - but for how long?A thought for today now that we are seeing the proof of climate change in the Horn of Africa (BBC) - "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...it takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." Albert Einstein.We live today in a world managed by political "fools" - we face an unsustanable JTL future, trust me - I am a scientist and NOT an alarmist! The truth about our collective future does NOT have a sell by date - if we get it wrong today you can kiss the future goodbye, period! And the story goes on - sea levels rise 2mm per year because of climate change and, have accelerated in the 20th century and will continue to do so in the 21st century - the JTL scenario continues. Boston Globe - ".... studies show similar changes, especially concerning the acceleration in sea level rise in the 20th century ". Of course ignoring it is the easiest way out - if you ignore it goes away, apparently? More evidence that we face a JTL future scenario, apparently? - Guidance for the reduction of obtrusive lighting. From the UK's ILE . Thanks guys. Just watched Joanna Lumley "In the Land of the Northern Lights"seeing the Aurora Borealis from northern Norway (BBC2 TV 6 :15pm UK, Monday 29 Dec 2008 and only for 7 days on iPlayer) You will see the aurora some 48-49 minutes into the programme. Just fantastic. A life long ambition. Sad that others just see Aurora "Bognor Regis", like Sir Patrick Moore who lives in Selsey. Dr. John Mason says this in his LP video. Others just see light pollution/light at night - LAN/LP. Sad, very sad that kids cannot see real stars (and aurora) and believe them only to be SFX. In the Dark about Light Pollution? Get enlightened. From 2007 but still good. Does architectural lighting contribute to breast cancer? So if it does don't unnecessarily light buildings at night and hence help to reduce global warming. Absolutely NOTHING to do with LP/LAN and environmentalism. I have just watched a FAME reunion programme on UK Channel 4 TV. Fantastic - everyone can live forever. How sad that our future now is so compromised? "Climate change will increase concentrations of tropospheric ozone,... which would increase morbidity and mortality,..." So help reduce global warming by turning OFF unnecessary light at night.New Year Resolution idea? Turn OFF unnecessary lights and maybe help to stop Himalayan village global warming and their glaciers melting back? German Innovation - Street Lighting By SMS - neat huh? Swiss glaciers in full retreat - BBC News. So slow global warming by turning OFF unnecessary lights. IL Criminal Justice Information Authority did an extensive investigation, discovering that increased light is responsible for increased crime of all types. So HORS 251 really is a load of rubbish/garbage? Light Pollution - What's The Problem? Brian May's "very good friend" tells the story. Light pollution - its "hidden" harm? The 9th European Dark Sky Symposium, 17th - 19th, September, 2009, Armagh Observatory, Northern Ireland. California At Night - A massive waste of energy and light (and money$$$$). Global Warming Might Cook Up Too Many Male Fish...a rise of 7 Fahrenheit degrees predicted by some (climate change) models for the end of the century would yield three males for every female, a ratio unfavorable for maintaining populations. - So reduce waste energy which contributes to global warming by turning OFF unnecessary light at night.Location, location.... The best places for astronomy in the UK. The Consequences of Light at Night? Colin Henshaw's Notes now on Facebook. Hope at last? Obama picks global warming expert as chief scientific advisor. Find the nearest hydrogen filling station for your future hydrogen EV hybrid? U.S. Cities spur action on climate change - WEH 28th March 2009 Canada kills its future ecology? The tar sand environment goes and "the most destructive fossil-fuel project on the planet" destroys our planet's future? British Euro MEP, Chris Davies takes dim view on light pollution. Moreover Europe is to carbon capture to reduce CO2 emissions. Join Linda Nicholes in an EV 21st century? Use overnight "base load electricity" to power YOUR electric vehicle and do not waste energy creating light pollution - neat huh (and oh so simple)? The skies over Utah parks are threatened? Just more stupidity by Government. Let's reduce light pollution in 2009? A very good idea for International Year of Astronomy 2009. Arctic ice melting at alarming rates? So switch off unnecessary LAN? Keep lights on at night, waste more energy and add to polar melting. "Apparently " 2 "trillion" tonnes of Arctic ice has melted "prematurely" since 2003:NASA. The Pennsylvania Outdoor Lighting Council. Promoting GOOD outdoor lighting. "light pollution is not really a pollution " This question was asked of an Internet search engine - it got this response HERE I hope that the person making this inquiry got a worthwhile answer? "Understanding Skyglow" ILE environmental document of understanding...........? Professor Gerhard Eisenbeis (Rich and Longcore, page 283)- 'Insects are sucked out of habitat areas (by LAN) as if by a vacuum, which may deplete local populations (of insects)....... Kolligs(2000) (this URL link does not access the reference itself - sadly none exists) found that the insects captured on each side of the greenhouse (studied) reflected habitat conditions on that side, providing evidence of the "vacuum cleaner" effect.' - Please realise that LAN/LP is maybe harming us, our environment and maybe compromising our long term future? Sadly, if we are not JIT we may well be JTL? Obama left with little time to cure global warming - Then how about turning off unnecessary lights to help? Common birds in decline."Since 1967 the average population of the common birds in steepest decline has fallen by 68 percent; some individual species nose-dived as much as 80 percent. All 20 birds on the national Common Birds in Decline list lost at least half their populations in just four decades." Wow - you don't say, nothing new there then and LAN had nothing to do with it? Frankly I don't believe it. Power blackouts could "blight" the UK - SKY NEWS. BTW I said this ~ 2 years ago. Light Pollution (The Video) - What's the problem? Download from Queen's Brian May web site. U.S. Cities to Spur Action on Climate Change by Going Dark for WWF’s Earth Hour 2009. Now you're talking!Calif. adopts tough greenhouse gas restrictions Good old Arnold? London to join Earth Hour 2009 says Boris Johnson. Nice one Boris, Ken could not ne bothered this inspite of my invitations. At least Boris has responded. IYA 2009 video telecom kick off Thursday 11th December 2008. Join in and air your thoughts? Poland - WEH - World Earth Hour set to be largest climate event in history? IUCN warned October of extinctions. More warnings from Poland, Wednesday, 10 December 2008. Obama vows to end global warming DENIAL after talks with Al Gore Fat chance - given the power of BIG OIL, BIG COAL AND BIG INDUSTRY? None know the meaning of the word sustainablity - the only word that they know is PROFIT aka greed? Climate change is "unequivocal, .. already happening, and is caused by human activity." Washington Post, 9 December 2008, 9:46 am. So turn OFF unnecessary light at night and REDUCE global warming caused by YOU? Think before it's JTL - Just Too Late. The Lighting Police are helping and so too does Need-Less! From National Geographic - This bulb will save planet Earth? And don't create LAN! A new video about light pollution at Starry Night Lights. Light pollution harms NOT JUST astronomers? An ANT tells the story of light pollution - what great sadness that we lose so much? "Greenhouse gases increase in the USA" - Bush fails - once again? Human degradation of the environment has the potential to stall planetary evolution?More harm to be done to the environment in the USA? NOTHING to do with LP/LAN More Light, More Crime: Chicago. Old news from 2000 but still relevant? Report HERE. Could Our Lights Actually Go Out......? If you are a media journalist wanting further information about LP/LAN and environmental issues of import then click HERE. Climate "juggernaut" marches on? -- huge droughts and floods, cyclones with increasingly more destructive power, pandemics of tropical disease, dramatic decline of biodiversity and increasing ocean levels," said Polish Environment Minister Maciej Nowicki. NATURE's brightest creatures not a match for light pollution? The Thai video of them. Al Gore: First ever political/"presidential" address on light pollution, LP/LAN! Climate change "tipping point" is fast approaching - and politicians remain "deaf"? Everything is "cracking" up? Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf due to collapse imminently? The Earth's "lungs" are moving towards their last gasp? News out now that deforestation in the Brazilian rain forest is up about 4 percent. Do the math in the USA and the maths in the UK and at this rate in ONLY 5 years deforestation will be at 20 percent. How fit would YOU be with 20 percent of your lungs gone? Endangered night skies: Light invades Utah's night skies. Salt Lake Tribune. Copied from the Astronomy 4 Kids page - This "hot" news from the Outdoor Lighting Forum (the OLF) of the USA. Tiffany Zambrano and Alexis Guerrero report on YouTube (from Alexis's house) on LP, light pollution, and EH, Earth Hour upcoming 8pm thru 9pm, 28 March, 2009. Clear skies. "We must not repeat the mistakes of the past,"advise given to Barak Obama.The coal, used to create the electricity which is WASTED creating LP/LAN, costs 360,000 million Euros annually. And YOU pay for it! It is now clearly shown that the total annual light energy loss is expected to be well over 1 billion US dollars per year world-wide. Just in BUT one year old - page 14, Order of the Earth, Green Youth Corner:Light Pollution "Though common, the assumption that light pollution only poses a danger to aesthetic beauty and the view through a few telescopes, is incorrect. The adverse effects of light pollution range from health problems in humans to devastating environmental damage." So now you know. The Garden of Eaden - A horticulturalist agrees with Colin Henshaw and I? If you have been to this site before you will know that I have supported Earth Hour since it started 2 years ago. The WWF are having World Earth Hour 2009 - EH 2009 - watch their video HERE. Some Effects of Artificial Lighting On Wildlife and do you know what? Nocturnal animals are likely to be disturbed by bright illumination and deterred from using established foraging and breeding areas. Nothing new there then? Will US President-Elect Barak Obama persue the truth? Try this for size - 'The City "Domes" of Wasted Energy Which Should Be Charging Our EVs?' Will his policy advisors agree? I certainly hope so! This is old news BUT no-one listened then (2003) and no-one listens now? "As the stars fade from view, a growing body of research suggests that excessive exposure to artificial night light can alter basic biological rhythms in animals, change predator-prey relationships, and even trigger deadly hormonal imbalances in humans." How Arctic melting will help shippers and oil companies (but not polar bears)? FALSE AURORAS: Warning: Not all northern lights are aurora borealis. Consider the following display of "false auroras" over Ambler, Pennsylvania, on Nov 19th. Fireflies in decline? Nothing new there then. Colin Henshaw predicted this (and much more) 15 years ago. Protecting the night sky above the Lower Wisconsin - neat huh? Wisconsin Journal - "I remember once when someone said, 'You know the view would be better if those clouds weren't up there,' " Zumm recalled. "I said, 'Dude! Those aren't clouds. That's the Milky Way!' " The stuff of dreams for the webmaster here in the UK? You heard it here first. House sparrows plummet 68% BBC TV 20-November 2008. If you read Dr. Kate Vincent's research you can learn more BBC TV today 19-Nov-2008. I have just heard that 3 big USA car companies are looking for a "bail out"? The reporter described them as "not paying attention to innovation" or words to that effect. May I remind folk that GM had the EV1 10 years ago. It is NOT that they failed to innovate - instead they became complacent and didn't bother to support innovation? With the EV1 charging at night, with unnecessary lights switched off you wake up to a car that does not pollute when you commute and power station engineers happy? Read that we should charge our EVs at night and switch off LAN? WEH - World Earth Hour is upcoming next March 2009. Someone today in the Philippines did a SEARCH and came back to this web site to view the Sydney EH composite from 2007 - neat huh? BTW If you read below that I am concerned that we do not conserve, that instead we waste profligately, how about this for a new story? Water will be in short supply by 2080. Maybe I will be dead but my relatives will not. Am I stupid or what? Why do we always hear discussion of energy provision? We waste far too much anyway - why do I not hear of conservation, conservation and more conservation? Switch off unnecessary lights at night - don't cause unnecessary LAN. Blinded by the Light? A handbook explaining some of the concerns which surround the 24 hour day caused by light at night -LAN. This is the frontispiece to the CfDS handbook which is now in pre-print. It is hoped that publication will appear soon - in the New Year at the latest. Scots urged to see the light in campaign for "dark sky parks"! The truth behind Britain's bright night skies. China's coal fires belch fumes, worsening global warming? BBC TV Wild China-Tibetan glaciers are melting (Sunday 16-Nov-2008). Sadly they are melting faster than they used to! Fires today in California - gosh? We wonder why? Irony! The NG November 2008 is unhappy with LAN. The New Yorker was unhappy last year! California has got it? Global warming is real and seas WILL rise. Schwarzenegger! Destruction of the future starts HERE - "The USA pursues drilling off Virginia". LAN kills bugs, birds, bats and many other animals. Now we see the onset of more harm WITHOUT regulation? I see a situation developing here like the money markets. When will the environment go into "meltdown"? UN puts a different "spin" on the modern "brown-out"? We used to have this when I was a kid - only we called them "pea-soupers" or London fogs etc. Streetlights and driving - "Light from ... street lights makes it harder for you to see the road ahead." So now you know that street lighting does NOT make it safer to drive at night? Very curious. Humans losing the battle against global warming and climate change: IEA?  Homer Glen leads the World and its City Fathers AgreeThis page section is under development but it shows residents and leaders of Homer Glen, a village in the conurbation of the city of Chicago, in Illinois, USA. Debra Norvil (cream jacket) has got back the names of folk in the picture line up to me (see caption details below). Homer Glen joined in with the rest of the World to attempt to make energy saving and sustainability a tangible reality. Homer Glen followed Sydney, Australia on the 1st birthday of Earth Hour 2007 to attempt to draw attention to the extent to which we WASTE energy every day and night. A 24 hour day problem in this global village? San Francisco ended with the Golden Gate having its floodlights turned off but the roadway lights, of course, were left illuminated. In short Home Glen turned off UNNECESSARY lighting which is all that EH (Earth Hour) is all about. I am looking forward to WEH next year, 2009 (World Earth Hour, 2009). Tell YOUR city fathers that if their township didn't join in then they will be responsible for future failure. Homer Glen made the effort this year and will continue to do so. Will your city leaders do the same? Picture figure captions - L to R: Illinois Lt. Governor Pat Quinn, Homer Glen Mayor James Daley, Homer Glen Trustee Russell Knaack, Homer Glen Trustee Margaret Sabo, Debra Norvil, Bob Gent IDA, and IDA Illinois Section Leader At Large Dave Toeppen. LATEST 24 August 2010 HERE - Chicagoland WTTW channel 11. Somehow if others didn't join in this year then I guess that they will not bother next year. Sad isn't it? But it is real nice that Homer Glen knows the way forward. BTW we are now in 2010 - WEH 2009 built on EH 2008 and the WWF have their new video for Earth Hour 2010 HERE. Enjoy!
SOCIETY IS UNDER-ESTIMATING ITS EFFECTS !By the time people wake up to its "hidden" effects it will be "just too late"? This quote from Challenge magazine page 20, Summer 2006. Learn more about the problem at http://www.savethenight.eu/Home.html Here you will SEE the nature of this problem! It is much worse than you can ever imagine? We had four UK light pollution petitions! Many are now out of date. Examine, peruse and learn. If you see a need for another petition then please create it. The new one is HERE - http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/switchofflookup/ One web address is here ..... http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Floodlighting/ Another can be found here... http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/starry-night/ And a rural campaign is here http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Streetlighting/sign John Tunnicliffe has added... http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Light-review/ And another here at........... http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/light-pollution/ Whilst these petition links are now out of date I leave them here for information. The latest (March 2008) petition link however concerns Jodrell Bank's Merlin interferometer. The £85 million Government scientific funding cut-back puts Jodrell and Merlin at risk. Don't let Government ignorance fail our future in science. The petition web site is at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/jodrellfunding/ - please sign up. There is a new book out there titled The Energy Age, by Robert Kyriakides of GENERSYS PLC who are the publisher. This retails at about £13 at B&Q! If you do not know anything about energy then read this book. Energy use, energy abuse and proper energy management are all included in the narrative. I have not read it fully. Watch this space for more. GENERSYS have a web site at www.genersys.com The energy which we waste at night, illuminating the night sky, should be powering our Electric Vehicles. It does not because of corporate incompetence? Please be kind enough to read "The City Domes of Wasted Energy Which Should Be Charging Our EVs" Bill Moore, editor of EV World, has placed a link to this article, archive at EV World HERE.  What is 'Light Pollution'? See here ... LP - THE MOVIE!
NB - Some links below are now 4 years old. If any video links fail then try this CfDS update URL to be found HERE. Enjoy from years ago. BTW nobody listens even today, one decade into the 21st century, after the warning of the 19th century? Light pollution is simply light that is having a bad effect on the environment. You can watch a WMV movie video explaining "The Problem?" by clicking HERE. The major effects are:
The purpose of this websiteLight pollution is unnecessary and can be controlled with very simple measures that cost very little. We aim to show you how YOU can make a difference and how YOU can improve your local environment. Remember that light at night needs to be enough to meet the need, it needs to be where it is wanted and at the time that it is wanted and it needs to be no more than will do the job! Turn off light at night (and at any other time) if there is no need for electric light? Switch it off! Do not waste energy! Do not warm planet Earth! Do not add to global warming! You know it makes sense? Or do you? Please do not be blind to that which you cannot see! The "hidden" effects of LP? This is a life experience for so many politicians - those in our world who are so blind that they WILL not see! The main pointsHere are some points about light pollution and its effects.
Potentially Worthwhile Links.....?Brian May is against LP. His Bang Universe web site is here - http://www.banguniverse.com/questions-and-answers The IDA is here -.... The CfDS is here .......... http://britastro.org/baa/content/view/168/2/ You can learn about Bob Mizon of the CfDS here.......... http://www.flamsteed.info/fasbobmizon.htm The Campaign to Protect Rural England is here....... http://www.cpre.org.uk/campaigns/landscape-and-beauty/light-pollution/light-pollution-your-area.htmLightPollution.org is here (in Croatia/Hungary)....(no English translation yet) http://www.lightpollution.org/index.htm
Pierantonio Cinzano is here........... http://www.savethenight.eu/Home.html Prairie Astronomy Club, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA have an LP fact sheet here- http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org/light.htm
Simply browse and enjoy, and then turn OFF your lights! All the best, web site manager Graham Cliff. Manchester University graduate in Physics and Electronic Engineering, 1971. Now a retired Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, England. My primary research has been high resolution x-ray microanalysis. One of my significant papers (with colleagues P.E.Champaness and G.W. Lorimer) is "The Identification of Asbestos, J of M, 1976", using what became known as Cliff-Lorimer k factors, from an even more significant yet earlier paper in 1975 (G. Cliff and G. W. Lorimer, J. Microsc., 1975, 103, 203). The controversy surrounding nanoparticles today is coming home to roost. I warned of their long range environmental effects 30 years ago and no-one listened, although MANSA June 2010 has debated their metrology at the NPL, Teddington, London. Proceedings will be provided "soon".
All the rest is history. If you are an historian how about this 3 MB pdf? It includes Sir Patrick Moore's signature on my Wilkins and Moore "Handbook for Telescope Making", Tony Bradshaw with his "REAL" telescope at Jodrell Bank and an image of ME with Tony's scope on the ADAS observatory roll-off roof, before light pollution wrecked astronomy in Timperley! Astronomy Now used it May, 1992. Small world isn't it?David Eicher used the same image as a front page cover on one of his books years ago (the other picture here is from my video projector's intro screen shot. I am standing on a TV weather map in the Albert Dock, Liverpool, England. My jacket I bought in Salt Lake City, after my wife photographed me in a book store holding David Eicher's book with my image on its front cover). The store in Salt Lake City had a Wilson's Leather shop. The store with David Eicher's book sold telescopes. I hope that Salt Lakers patronize these stores. BTW the guys in the B&W photo of 4 (now aged) astronomers are me, Colin Henshaw (co-discoveror of Supernova 1987A ), Robin Scagell, Vice President of the SPA and Gresham Professor Ian Morison of Jodrell Bank, Radio Telescope Observatory, University of Manchester, England). If you have bothered to read to here then look at Graham, Colin and Fred Talbot, when they were only 18 in 1968 in the pdf HERE! Enjoy it, if you can, in this unsustainable, light polluted, badly managed world! Sad that I am so cynical, isn't it? Can anyone offer me sustainable hope for our future? I added this 1.5MB pdf image to add to my "ego", which of course I do not have(?). I appear in 1994 with academic colleagues at the inauguration of the Lehigh 300kV STEM/AEM which achieved atom analysis resolution in 1996, a year later than I predicted in Boston in 1992 when I received the MAS/EMSA Presidential Award. My wife likes to tell friends that as an electron microscopist and astronomer "I know my place". The Sale and Altrincham Messenger interviewed me in 1992 and asked about the MAS award which I had received - it explained my "modesty". Neat huh? Have YOUR Photo Opportunity To Have Your Say.A web page Light Pollution photo gallery has been in place now for just over a year(?). Its home page is at http://www.librapix.com/lightpollution/ It has images from activist anti-LP members motivated to bother to take a photo of an LP (or a light energy wastage) problem and to then post it. Not quite a YOUTUBE of LP but then LP is not very dynamic. Some of these photos are worthy of despair and distress. I like(?) numbers 1, 19&22, 45, 48, 59&60 (which are "ironic"), 72, 86, 89 and so on. Please be inclined to post your own. Maybe if you live outside the UK you could ask that a WORLD Gallery be created? You could even create your own. That reminds me - Is there already a World LP gallery site? What is its URL? Please get back if you know of one and I will post it here. Enjoy, or not, as the case may be - more irony. |
