According to National Geographic Magazine a warm and watery “Blob,” known as a “Kelvin Wave” will cause “transformations in marine life” and raise ocean levels up to to twelve inches is heading toward the failed San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
The San Onofre nuclear plant was closed by a radiation leak on January 31, 2012 when the plant’s majority owner, Southern California Edison refused to heed several warnings by their VP of Engineering and proceeded to install experimental replacement parts that were not approved or licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
The plant was closed abruptly after it leaked radiation into the surrounding communities. The closure stranded several million pounds of eternally deadly radioactive nuclear waste. The radioactive waste is now stored in ‘scratched and gouged’ metal canisters located 108 feet from the Pacific Ocean.
The National Geographic story says the “Blob,” also known as a Kelvin Wave, is a “massive bulge of water” caused by global warming. The Blob is raising water levels in North and South America, with “officials bracing for storm surges, erosion, and transformations in marine life.”
Further, the Blob will “worsen the damage already being inflicted by an increase in storms, climate change-driven sea-level rise, and record-high ocean temperatures, which cause water to expand. The Blob is also one of the major signs that the much-anticipated super El Niño from the equatorial Pacific Ocean has made it to North America.
Click on the image below for an animation of the Blob from National Public Radio.
