By MICHAEL SLOVANOS
CAIRNS News has received a response from a former EPA engineer to our article on claims circulating around the internet about the so-called “death fog”.
The engineer, Lex Stewart, who we should add has been active in the political arena as an adviser and is now Australia’s leading voice on voting fraud, confirms our suspicions that the “death fog” claims are pure bunk, fear porn and click bait.
“As a person trained in the laws of physics and chemistry, I have a lot of problems with some of the claims being made by various alarmists, be they leftwingers asserting problems with the Great Barrier Reef corals due to farmers using fertilisers hundreds of kilometres inland, or by others making all sorts of claims,” Stewart writes.
“All animals, plants, organisms including human beings respond to stresses or nutrients or drugs etc in various ways, according to a “Dose-Response” relationship, that can be assessed by scientific testing and experiments on rabbits or mice or even humans..
“If you have a headache, then look at the Panadol packet and it states to consume one or two tablets every 4 hours. If you consume one-hundredth of a Panadol, you ain’t going to dent that headache! A small dose is trivial and of no consequence.”
In 1977 Stewart was the Air Pollution Control Engineer for half of Sydney and then went on to be put in charge of waste disposal for the whole of NSW, which covered water pollution, air pollution, noise and other issues.
Part of his work was to assess how high a chimney should be put on top of a boiler – part of a factory application or hospital incinerator etc. Applicants would specify the type of fuel (coal or oil or gas etc), and the combustion rate etc.
Stewart says the engineers would work out the types of pollutant that would be emitted from the chimney and at what concentrations. “In workplaces and public places we want to keep the concentrations of various pollutants (including dust) down to levels determined scientifically to represent no harm,” he says.
“It used to be many years ago that I remember that the TLV (threshold limit value) for sulfur dioxide used to be 5 parts per million for an eight-hour working shift exposure. It was subsequently revised to be lower than 5ppm to allow more margin for conservatism.
“And therefore the height of for example the chimney at the Mt Isa copper mine’s smelter (885 feet) was set to allow enough height and wind dilution so that by the time the chimney gases get down to the ground then the concentration of Sulfur Dioxide under the worst possible weather conditions would still be OK i.e. less than 5ppm.
“And so I have a problem of a claim of a “death fog” affecting anybody, let alone millions or billions of people. I am familiar with the toxicity of many chemicals, and there simply does not exist anything like this so called “death fog”. The issue is a hype, a beat-up.”
Stewart is also highly sceptical of the “chemtrail” claims rampant on social media. Cairns News has previously alerted readers to the work of weather technology researcher Jim Lee, a former “chemtrail” alarmist whose own research led him to moderate his position.
Stewart says a problem with claims about chemtrails or death fogs is the huge amount of chemical tonnages required in order to have any toxic effect on humans or agriculture at ground level.
He says you would need to spray millions of tonnes of the aluminium or barium they are claimed to contain, due to the dilution from above 30,000 feet down to us at ground level.
Stewart is aware, however, that some people want to bring about subtle atmospheric effects on sunlight with powders, aiming to cause some climate change, “but once again, you would need to inject vast tonnages into the upper atmosphere in order to have any measurable effect”.
“A far worse source of pollution impacting humans than any form of air pollution is coming from being injected into one’s arm or veins by vaccines,” he added.
Jim Lee’s interview with health journalist Del Bigtree reveals much of his historical research on the contrail phenomenon which was first noticed in the skies over England during the Battle of Britain. In the late 1990s someone conflated common jet contrails with the military’s use of various cloud seeding technologies.
The frequent, but false claim, was that contrails don’t linger in the atmosphere but “chemtrails do”. Lee has shown that certain atmospheric conditions that can be tracked, produce lingering contrails. These areas are sometimes avoided by military aircraft to avoid detection by leaving contrails.
Lee says the real problem with contrails is that when concentrated in the right atmospheric conditions they create increased cloud cover and can block out the sun, which was a subject of an unsuccessful lawsuit in the late 1950s by the Palm Springs municipality against the US Air Force.
