April 7, 2013

• Skin Cancer Increase with Sun Screen Use

  Skin Cancer Increase + Sun Screen use

  well, well, well, it turns out that Skin Cancer rates are rising at the very same time Sun Screen use is increasing. How can that be? I am not going to cite specific documentation in this blog post BECAUSE there is presently so much divergence between results that it is nearly impossible to be sure what is really going on, or why.  Some surveys indicate skin cancers are going DOWN as sun screen use increases, other surveys show cancer rates are going up with increased use of sun screen… WTF! Allow me to try to straighten this all out for you by taking a look at what the Sun is doing these days…. The Sun is reaching SOLAR MAXIMUM.  Solar Maximum is a phase of solar activity that occurs EVERY 22 years.  That’s part of the problem…people tend to forget about Solar Maximum because 22 years in a lifetime is a long while…and for young people maybe they have NEVER even experienced a Solar Maximum in their whole lives – yet. At Solar Maximum the Sun (for some as yet unknown reason) blasts out tremendous explosions of hydrogen gas.  This does not occur during Solar Minimum which occurs midway between Solar Maximums. Along with the hydrogen gas explosions (which would kill all life on the surface of Earth, as solar explosions have killed all life on the surface of Mars, 40 million miles FURTHER AWAY, but from which we are protected by the magnetosphere surrounding the Earth which blocks these deadly proton winds from reaching the ground), the Sun also at Solar Maximum releases tremendous INCREASES in X-rays, and also Ultra-Violet light (U.V.).   Earth just barely protects us from the Sun’s x-rays…the last mile of air above our heads manages to block the x-rays from reaching the surface of the Earth…but airplane pilots and flight crews suffer more exposure to these x-rays, and get more related diseases due to increased exposure: lymph cancers, blood cancers, and bone cancer rates are all elevated for these workers because, well, airlines don’t like to put LEAD shielding in the planes, it adds weight to the plane, and – uses more of that precious fuel.  IT IS THE SUN’S ULTRA-VIOLET LIGHT THAT CAUSES SKIN CANCERS.  It also causes sunburn for light-skinned people and skin darkening for well pigmented peoples.  At Solar Maximum the Sun is blasting out GREATLY increased levels of U.V. radiation….the OZONE layer (a 3-5 mile thick layer of oxygenated air) in the atmosphere has the job of stopping the Ultra-Violet light from reaching the ground in any harmful amount. Part of the present problem – and for the next 4 years – is that we don’t know just HOW MUCH ozone we have up there to protect us. Currently the OZONE HOLE at the South Pole is bigger than it has been for many years.  That is not good because it means that ozone depletion at mid-latitudes (where most people live) is also going to be greater.  We don’t have good measurements for mid-latitude ozone levels because the satellites that were to measure mid-latitude ozone levels both blew up during launch…whaddup wid dat?… It turns out that it is easier anyway to measure ozone by LOOKING UP, rather than looking down.  Mr. FOREST MIMS (please google him) has made a device that he is selling that will measure ozone at YOUR location, but he is the only person selling it. So, Where does this leave us beach bums?   It means we lather up with Sun Screen….right?  Wrong.  Increased use of Sun Screen also tends to increase skin cancer rates.  Why? Several reasons: First, you think you safe, right?  so, you stay out longer.  Bad move.  The longer you are exposed to heavy Ultra-Violet light, as the minutes increase, the risk increases.  It’s called the ‘J’-curve, and it’s deadly.  So, what you SHOULD DO is use MORE Sun screen, and NOT stay out longer. STAY OUT LESS!  k?  Got that. Second, the kind of Sun Screen you use makes a tremendous difference.  It’s got to block BOTH Ultra-Violet light ‘A’ and Ultra-Violet light ‘B’.  Additionally, the Sun Screen must not be OIL-BASED.  Oil-based sunscreens metastasize on the skin, in the skin really, which means they get cooked by the Ultra-Violet light and change into a sort of plastic, which gets absorbed into your skin (yuk!) and is carcinogenic.   So the Sun Screen you use can kill you. MY ADVICE: Buy a floppy hat.  Stay OUT OF THE SUN for any extended period of time, ESPECIALLY if you are a fair-skinned white person.  Use a non-oil-based sun screen that protects against both U.V. A+B.  That should protect you. But, the honeybees are in trouble, and that means BIG PROBLEMS for the human race….I hope we make it through this Solar Maximum which will occur this year, and come out on the other side without too many harmful effects that we cannot correct, like death, and crop devastation. P.S. this ALSO explains why increase in condom use increases: STD’s, unwanted pregnancies (I call these “initially unwanted pregnancies” because after the baby is born it is so lovable you can hardly imagine why you had thought you could possibly abort such a cutie pie child), and of course, abortions.  Same carelessness, same false confidence…same ignorance of the facts.

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