Articles by Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch

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Peter Wadhams, Professor Emeritus, Ocean Physics
Robert Hunziker - Counterpunch, 20 Aug 2018

10 Aug 2018 – My mission was to drill down into what’s happening with the climate crisis. I got the answers I was looking for… Methane embedded in frozen deposits in shallow waters north of Siberia is the most underrated and overlooked risk by the scientific community, which prompts many, many hard questions. My follow up question: What will be the impact of a 50Gt pulse? Answer: “It would wipe out civilization within 5 years.”

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Insect Decimation Upstages Global Warming
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch, 2 Apr 2018

27 Mar 2018 – Everybody’s heard about global warming. It is one of the most advertised existential events of all time. However, there’s a new kid on the block. An alarming loss of insects will likely take down humanity before global warming hits maximum velocity.

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Fukushima Darkness
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch, 27 Nov 2017

22 Nov 2017 – The radiation effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant triple meltdowns are felt worldwide, whether lodged in sea life or in humans, it cumulates over time. The growing problem of Fukushima’s radiation conundrum.

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The Sick Ocean
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch, 12 Sep 2016

8 Sep 2016 – A major new scientific report, “Explaining Ocean Warming” was released on 5 Sep. It is grim. The findings are based upon peer-reviewed research compiled by 80 scientists from 12 countries. It is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken on the subject of warming of the ocean.

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Fukushima: Worse Than a Disaster
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch, 13 Jun 2016

Disasters can be cleaned up. 600 tons of hot molten core, or corium, are missing and it is not likely the fuel will ever be recovered: “Nobody really knows where the fuel is at this point, and this fuel is still very radioactive and will be for a long time.” Nobody has experience with a Fukushima-type 100% meltdown, possibly burrowed into the ground, but nobody really knows for sure.

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Fukushima Flunks Decontamination
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch, 23 May 2016

Fukushima’s growing radiation problem.

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The Ugly Truth Behind the Greek Bailout
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch, 16 May 2016

IMF Queen Christine’s backroom stratagem, described in a WikiLeaks’ leaked confidential letter exclusive to Troika members, preceded the three-day nationwide strike in very strong protest against more and more, infinitely more, austerity measures burying the Greek people as quid pro quo for bailout money, which almost exclusively (95%) serves to service creditors. This is insanity of the highest order. How can Greeks at all accede to a measly 5%?

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Fukushima Amplifies Murphy’s Law
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch, 21 Dec 2015

Murphy’s Law has found a permanent home in Fukushima: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” Why nuke plants are as dangerous as nuclear weapons.

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Fukushima Gets A Lot Uglier
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch, 9 Nov 2015

As time passes, a bona fide message emerges from within the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster scenario, and that message is that once a nuclear power plant loses it, the unraveling only gets worse and worse until it’s at its worst, and still, there’s no stopping it. Similar to opening Pandora’s box, there’s no stopping a ferocious atom-splitting insanity that knows no end.

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