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nexus © REws~ tween 1.7% and 3% in a heavily populated band Uu r Uu Uu a k e of the northern hemisphere encompassing almost all of the US and Europe. During winter, ozone In April last year Australiaexperienced | !sses ranged from 2.3% to 6.2%. ake sf < Mostcritics of the CFC ‘theory’ claim there is no the worst earthqu 6 SINCE white settle- hard datato back itup - but their objections have been ment. At 7.4 on the Richter scale it easily out- largely superseded over the last two years. It’s very rumbled the San Fransisco earthquake, rocking the | hard to keep up with the deluge of new atmospheric region around Uluru (nee Ayer’s Rock). ; data; science has learned more about the atmosphere There ea 8 near-total lack of reports in the | jn the last five years than in all of history. media despite the fact that the quake affected one of The greenhouse effect and ozone depletion are Australia’s most beloved sites and that it was bad | oneofthebestreasons to put away jingoistic, nation- enough for local emergency services to becalledinto | alist notions and work together globally; it's danger- action, According to Peter Sawyer’s InsideNews,the | oys to dismiss them as nothing more than manufac- epicentre of the quake was the US “facility” at Pine | tured scams to force us to create one world govern- Gap. Sawyer claims the quake was a direct result of | ment and give away our freedoms, as some fringe scalar wave experimentation at the base. writers are claiming. But it is worthwhile remember- Whatever the cause, central Australia has had | ing that when times get tough, civil liberties can be two massive (over 7.1) earthquakes in the last two | the first things people lose. years (the other was near Tenant Creek) - unheard of It's still possible to regenerate the Earth and events in the most stable continent on Earth. recreate paradise; maybe the greenhouse effect can A relatively small 30-second earthquake also | be harnessed. Without it, we’d be due for an ice age struck Darwin on the 25th of July, measuring 4.1 on | about now, according to the geological record. the Richter scale. Home Birth Healthier NSW Department of Health figures show that the proportion of complications experi- enced by mothers and babies during birth were considerably higher in hospitals than in home births. Using Health Department statistics of more than 10,000 births in over 100 hospitals during 1984, NSW Uni researcher Cathy Boland discovered a complication rate of between 68.3% and 74.5% - as compared with 46.1% for ‘low risk" home births. Ms Boland said the effects of drugs and interventionist methods widely used in hospitals - induction and epidurals, for instance - had never properly been tested with “randomised conrrol trials”; a situation Ozone Band Thins |“°™""""" NEXUS has received a number of ap- parently well-argued articles debunk- ing the Greenhouse Effect and Ozone depletion. They claim that what we are undergo- Fre nch Mu shroo ms ing is a fluctuation which is part of a grand climatic f = cycle over which we have no contro] and cannot Radioactive seriously affect. Some believe that there is still no proven link between CFCs and ozone breakdown, ’ that this is misinformation spread by the US. Japan suspended imports of French Don’t be so sure. Over 100 scientists from seven | Mushrooms last October after a government countries spent 16 months until March 1988 care- | announcement that some were contaminated by fully analysing ground-based and satellite measure- | radiation. ments of atmospheric ozone. They found that from Japan has been testing food since the April 1986 1969 to 1986, ozone decreased on average be- | Chernobyl disaster, unlike Australia. Reuter nexus © REus— Quake Reuter Reuter — NEXUS New Times Nine = 1989 —_———— Mushrooms