...first the headline:
Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake
06 Apr 2009
By Gavin Jones
ROME, April 6 (Reuters) - An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population.
The first tremors in the region were felt in mid-January and continued at regular intervals, creating mounting alarm in the medieval city, about 100 km (60 miles) east of Rome.
Vans with loudspeakers had driven around the town a month ago telling locals to evacuate their houses after seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani predicted a large quake was on the way, prompting the mayor's anger.
Giuliani, who based his forecast on concentrations of radon gas around seismically active areas, was reported to police for "spreading alarm" and was forced to remove his findings from the Internet.
A spokesman for the Italian Gob'mint went on to say:
It is useful to underline that it is not in any way possible to predict an earthquake," it said, adding that the agency saw no reason for alarm but was nonetheless effecting "continuous monitoring and attention". It is useful to underline that it is not in any way possible to predict an earthquake," it said, adding that the agency saw no reason for alarm but was nonetheless effecting "continuous monitoring and attention".
This of course, would be the same Italian Gob'mint that takes all predictions about global warming as accepted fact!! As do most of the other governments of the world. There has been no scientific proof of such warming, just computer models designed by.......... err, well, -- humans. But it is taken as gospel!
Hmmm, must not be as much power to grab and money to make in recognizing 'earthquake predictors' as opposed to 'global warming' chicken littles....!
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