West LA Geiger Counter Web Cam: We Want Our Dose TV

Brentwood .

But ionizing radiation from Japan doesn't care if Santa Monica shields us from an angry ocean.

tell us not to worry about fallout, but the jet stream does not ask permission from the authorities.

Reassurance is nice, but we want to see for ourselves. In the mythic argot of Brentwood past:

Welcome to the future of the WWW, the Internets, the cloud, cyberspace, you name it, where bandwidth expands to fit the waste available.  It started with web cams, and then monkey cams and beach cams.  Soon there were snow cams and Yule log cams.

Those innocent days are behind us now.

The Live Radiation Monitor from West LA cam is now online.

The camera points at two off-the-shelf Geiger counters. Watch at your own risk – risk of boredom, fear and/or weltschmerz.

The Radiation Cam webcast comes from Michael Collins of Santa Monica, who says we should only get concerned if the numbers consistently exceed the 40-46 range.

They looked a little high Friday night when we got the screen shot (8:02 p.m.), but check back later.

Collins wants ordinary citizens to have direct access to the data, and that's a noble endeavor.

EnviroReporter.com, Collins' website, is rasing the alarm:

Radiation Nation – Two Weeks and Clicking

Perhaps like you, I’ll always remember where I was March 11, 2011 as the first tsunami’s came crashing in the Japanese coast in live time. I was standing in my home office, aghast, while Denise Anne was on the phone with “Wild Bill” Bowling of the Radiation Rangers...

Do sites like this raise public awareness or merely raise fear levels?