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After Japan announced it would advance the end of their hunting season, Conservation Center Cetacean said "it's time to redouble diplomatic efforts and global citizenship to finally stop this irrational and very old practice. "Ecoceanos While conservationists said that countries should move to modernize the IWC and to end loopholes that allow the killing of whales.


Santiago de Chile, 16 February 2011 (Ecoceanos / CCC) - The Center for Cetacean Conservation and Ecoceanos held on Wednesday announced the Japanese government to stop its whaling operations in southern sea waters, but announced that it is necessary to move towards full compliance with the moratorium and sanctuaries for whales.
suspended Japanese whalers operating in Antarctica as a result of pressure from environmental groups and then American governments raise a formal letter to Japan, urging him not to continue using the loophole of "hunting science "to kill whales.
The Japanese announcement came a day after Chile's Navy said it would keep watch on the whaling ship Nisshin Maru which unexpectedly changed its course to head towards the Antarctic Peninsula, near the waters of our country.


spokesman for the Fisheries Agency of Japan announced that the whaling factory ship "Nisshin Maru" paralyzed their catches on 10 February by security before the "aggressive practices" of the conservation group Sea Shepherd. At present it is considered the return of three other ships of the whaling fleet with a total crew of 180 sailors who captured cetaceans in waters of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
face of this suspension of whaling, Elsa Cabrera Cetacean Conservation Center (CCC) from the island of Chiloé, Chile, noted that "it is time that countries Conservationists redouble its diplomatic efforts and global citizenship demands the closure of the whaling in line with the moratorium adopted by the majority of IWC members 25 years ago. In the 21st century is unacceptable Japan abusive behavior towards the conservation of marine species and governance of the Antarctic. "
Meanwhile Ecoceanos Juan Carlos Cardenas, said that" what has happened in Antarctic waters close to Chile, shows that only a strong will to fight of citizen organizations has led Japan to retreat temporarily. We hope that Latin American countries and the Caribbean achieved before the next meeting of the International Whaling Commission, take concrete actions to which it has been the last season of the Nisshin Maru Antarctica, and to close existing loopholes that allow the urgent modernization of the IWC. "
Meanwhile, Cosme Caracciolo, the National Confederation of Artisanal Fishermen of Chile (Conapach) said "Cosme" temporary cessation of operations of "scientific whaling" in Japan in Antarctic waters, is the clearest evidence of the weakening of this destructive industry, making clear the visionary achievement that meant the absolute prohibition hunting in Chilean waters by Law 20,293 of 2008, the result of a citizens' campaign "Chile 2008, Whale Sanctuary," which led Conapach next to the Conservation Center and Center Cetacea Ecoceanos "


INTERNATIONAL REJECTION begins to bear fruit


Whaling reported to Tokyo shares constant criticism and rejection of international public opinion, which included a complaint from Australia to the International Criminal Court The Hague and the strong statement of rejection of the Latin American bloc and Caribbean grouped in the "Buenos Aires Group" to hide, under assumptions for scientific whaling, purely commercial motivations.
In recent years, the Japanese operations in southern sanctuary waters have been complicated by progressive pressure vessels from the anti-whaling activists, which led to the irritation of the Japanese government.
spokesman Minister of Japan, Yukio Edan, today deplored the stonewalling against the issuing "scientific" and said Japan will call on other nations to take action against him. Japan, Iceland and Norway are the only countries that continue to hunt whales. The country carried out since 1987 expeditions to the Antarctic waters under the scientific interest of course, by the Institute of Cetacean Research. Japan abandoned commercial whaling in 1986 due to the implementation of an international moratorium. However, a year after hunting resumed operations under a program for scientific purposes, taking advantage of existing loopholes in the International Whaling Commission (IWC), to the skepticism and criticism of countries and environmental organizations.


AND JAPAN CONSUME NO WHALES


The whale meat consumption has been falling steadily in Japan. In 2009 only 4,200 tons were sold, compared with 230,000 tonnes in 1962. This has meant high reserves of stored whale meat in Japan, last August reached a record of more than 6000 tons. All this demonstrates the lack of the Japanese people by the consumption of whale meat.
Of the thousand whales that Japan is self imposed as annual hunting quota has been progressively reduced to little more than 500 minke whales and fin whales 2008 as 507 minke whales caught in 2010, 60 percent of its goal, having suspended the expedition for 31 days due to pressure from environmental fleet of Sea Shepherd.

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A grain of sand in the desert .... .....

"Look at that point. That's here. That's home. That's us. It is everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you've heard of, every human being who ever was, lived their lives. "

These beautiful words belong to Carl Sagan referring to the historic Earth Photography taken by the Voyager spacecraft 1 to a distance of 6,000 million miles.

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Why solar flare of February 14 did not cause chaos on Earth.

All energy delivered by the Sun went off innocently towards the poles of the Earth.

JOSE MANUEL NIEVES
02/2011 REUTERS


was a simple matter of luck. Aligned magnetic field so that all the energy sent by the Sun went off innocently towards the poles of the Earth. If the relative angle of the two fields (the solar particles and Earth) would have been different, things would have been able to get very ugly for us. Now, once the danger, scientists look to the future with concern. The "Valentine's Day Storm" was only the first of a solar cycle, number 24, which has just started and expected much more active than the last. It is estimated that in the coming months, there will be no less than 1,700 solar storms of equal or greater intensity that left us last week miraculously unscathed.
On 14 February, just in time for Valentine's probe SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) spacecraft witnessed a powerful solar flare that was aimed directly at Earth. The spacecraft's instruments detected a massive flare of class X, the most powerful few are able to deliver the Sun and the largest detected during the last four years.
Astronomers prepared for the impact of a large geomagnetic storm and experts on "solar weather predicted that jets of charged particles from the Astro King would hit against destabilizing Earth's magnetic field communication systems and navigation half day in the world.


Many Northern Lights


However, with the exception of some problems in China's satellite networks, none of that happened. There was, yes, a spectacular array of northern lights, but to see them had to be as far north as Alaska, Canada or Finland. In fact, the geomagnetic storm generated by the solar flare of February 14, barely reached the G1 category on the scale of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the lowest for this class of phenomena. The maximum score, G5, applies to geomagnetic storms of extreme force, capable of "frying" in a few seconds the power grids and cause the northern lights over southern Florida.
But what exactly happened to it looked like a raging beast suddenly be transformed into a harmless puppy weather?
We are not yet able to say how strong is a geomagnetic storm until the moment it occurs.
The experts are clear. The storm was so weak because the magnetic field lines of the solar flare were aligned in parallel with the earth's field. When the sun sends, as it did on October 14, a huge mass of hot plasma into our world (which is called a coronal mass ejection), the particles that compose it have its own magnetic field, independent of the Earth or the sun itself turns out that astronomers today are unable to determine the direction of the magnetic field of the plasma until the moment of impact with Earth.
If the magnetic field of the plasma jet turns out, as was last week, parallel to the Earth, charged particles from the Sun will be blocked by the natural magnetic shield of the Earth and can not penetrate through the magnetosphere. However, identical to a flare that occurred on Valentine's Day, but with a magnetic field perpendicular to ours, would have caused a storm infinitely stronger.
"If the plasma's magnetic field is parallel to ours," says climate expert Juha-Pekka Luntama space, European Space Agency, then the arms are raised and we will be well protected. " But next time might not be so lucky as to its lineup.


There will be many "next times"


And there will certainly not one but many "next times." Indeed, it is expected that over the coming months to produce at least 1,700 geomagnetic storms like last week. A number that will increase as the sun advances in its new cycle of activity.


Big solar periods of violence that can last eleven years.


The storm of last week was only the first of this new solar cycle, number 24, which has just begun. As scientists well know, the sun alternating periods of calm with great violence in other periods (or cycles) that last eleven years. And the last minimum of solar activity (which just leave) has been much longer and quieter than usual, which has provided us with several years of deceptive calm.
few years, by the way, during which our dependence on technology has increased exponentially, leaving much more defenseless against events capable of disrupting communications and disable the power plants of almost all our civilization depends.
So, experts are now more nervous than ever about the solar maximum is coming and it will reach its peak between 2012 and 2014. The last peak occurred in 2000, and then society depended much less than systems now capable of being out of action due to a solar flare stronger than average.


Prepare best


no choice, therefore, best be prepared for what is to come. As said Jane Lubchenco, head of NOAA, during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), held last Saturday in Washington, "It's not a question of if will happen, but when it will happen and how strong will. "
The solar flare takes between ten and twenty minutes to reach.
know, for example, that when a solar flare like the last 14 days can expect from the Sun several "waves" different particles. The first comes almost immediately and at nearly the speed of light. It takes between ten and twenty minutes to reach and does so in the form of high-energy protons can penetrate the Earth's magnetic field through polar regions. This first "advance" has the potential to disrupt satellite communications.
But that's just the beginning. If the solar flare was strong enough, can lead to a coronal mass ejection, a dense plasma cloud millions of degrees and, depending on its intensity, it can take to reach the Earth between 18 hours and three days. When the plasma jet encounters the Earth's magnetic field and the orientation of its magnetic field is adequate, penetrates through it and because, by induction, intense electric currents that can damage, even destroy, our power plants, causing blackouts and power cuts.


Shields able to withstand a surge.


Currently, satellites are modern and equipped with shields can withstand the first wave of solar radiation, and emergency shutdown systems for shutting off completely until the danger has passed. But it is necessary to arbitrate also systems that can do the same with terrestrial power plants if necessary.
The network of surveillance satellites and study of the sun is steadily growing and, at present, can give us about twenty hours of time to react. If we are to avoid disaster and to practically impossible to defend against such phenomena, we should be able, at least, every time you disconnect and wait for the storm to pass ...


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Scientists warn of the possibility of a solar storm "catastrophic" ... EDITORIAL

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The phenomenon has the power to stop , at one stroke, with the technology of the modern world.

José Manuel Nieves / Madrid
02/2011


Experts are, this time, all agreed. As a geomagnetic storm that occurred on Earth on Tuesday is not an isolated phenomenon. And despite that we hit last week, so far the most powerful of the current solar cycle, had no major consequences in future cases might not be so lucky. A similar phenomenon, in fact, has the power to finish, one stroke, with the modern world's technological society.
A solar storm enough strong, in fact, could destabilize, even catastrophically, much of our technology. The modern world, many experts said on Saturday during the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), rely heavily on the satellite network. Shipping and air transport, synchronization between computers, telecommunications networks, GPS systems, electronics of all kinds ... Technologies, all of them extremely vulnerable to "change time" space.
The consequences would be disastrous if a large solar storm, for the network of satellites orbiting Earth many of which would be literally "scorched" but also for power plants worldwide, which sit idle transformers causing power cuts of electricity that could last weeks or even months.


Waiting for the big storm


The storm of last Tuesday is the beginning of a situation which, according to scientists, can only get worse. In fact, we are hardly at the beginning of the current solar cycle is expected that the activity of the sun is going increasingly intense over the next eleven years.
"It's not a question of whether it will - said Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States, but when it will happen and how strong will. The last time we had a maximum in the solar cycle, about ten years ago, the world was a very different place. Today mobile phones are everywhere. It is also true that before had, but it depended on them for so many different things. "
For this expert, "many of the things we take for granted and now rely much guaranteed over space weather during the last solar maximum. "Despite the risk, experts admit that, at present, very little can be done to predict potentially dangerous solar storms. What we should do is to" shield "in some form networks and power plants, doing something that allows us, in case of alarm, quickly extinguish the most sensitive areas until the danger passes.


"The problem is the reliance on GPS »


" Please do not panic - said by Meanwhile Stephan Lechner, Director of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission - overacting would only worsen the situation. "For this expert, the root of the modern world's vulnerability is its dependence on global positioning systems or GPS without which it would not be possible sea and air, and the synchronization of computer networks and electronic equipment.
"GPS has helped us on Saturday," said Lechner, but we also created a new unit "ranging from aerospace to digital production of radio and TV, financial services and government agencies. In Europe alone, he said, there are 200 telecommunications operators and "none of them are standardized."


impossible to prevent


Given the current inability to prevent a solar storm capable of causing the disaster, the world's governments should develop strategies for cooperation enable them to share all your vital information, thus anticipating the local damage that storm could cause. Unfortunately, despite the current deployment of resources, we still do not know when devastating storm that could occur.
"Currently, for his part said Juha-Pekka Luntama, European Space Agency, we can not say whether there will be a big storm in the next six months, but we can say that all the conditions for that storm occurs. "
On Tuesday, a large solar flare, the most detected in the last five years, sent to Earth a huge stream of charged plasma particles at a speed of 900 km per second. The eruption was in class X, the most powerful of which is capable of Sun, produced some spectacular auroras and destabilized communications, but its effects are almost exclusively confined to latitudes north of our planet.
"You would think - Luntama said," that this time we were well protected. It turns out that magnetic fields were aligned in parallel, so it was not too much. If it were not so, things would have been very different " .