Lebanon Makes the International News, Again

Lebanese politicians and decision makers can now be assured that they are even a threat to the planet. Photo credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Several months after the Beirut blast, researchers from India's National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, and Hokkaido University in Japan made an astounding discovery. It turns out that the electrical disturbances that resulted from the blast was comparable to the impact of many volcanic eruptions; the blast generated a wave that traveled in the ionosphere in a southwards direction at a velocity of around 0.8 kilometers per second. According to Japanese scientists, this exceeded the recordings of the deadly Asama volcano explosion in 2004. As such, the Beirut blast was so powerful that it disturbed the entire earth’s ionosphere, which is responsible for protecting the globe from radiation coming from space.

Comically yet sadly, Lebanon’s decision makers responsible for this tragedy will now have to be held accountable for the destruction of the planet, in an addition to the country that they have laid waste to.

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