ApocaDocs: Missing radioactivity in ice cores bodes ill for part of Asia

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	Missing radioactivity in ice cores bodes ill for part of Asia http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1227031567 When Ohio State glaciologists failed to find the expected radioactive signals in the latest core they drilled from a Himalayan ice field, they knew it meant trouble for their research. But those missing markers of radiation, remnants from atomic bomb tests a half-century ago, foretell much greater threat to the half-billion or more people living downstream of that vast mountain range. It may mean that future water supplies could fall far short of what's needed to keep that population alive.... "that... means that no new ice has accumulated on the surface of the glacier since 1944," nearly a decade before the atomic tests.

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'Doc Michael says:

Hard to imagine I'd be wishing we'd found radioactivity.