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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

From: Walter H.Jeffries 

 

> we have a bright moon

 

Excuse me, but the article was discussing artificial light :

 

London : http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/photoinfo.pl?PHOTO=ISS006-E-22939

 

U.S. east coast : http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/photoinfo.pl?PHOTO=ISS006-E-18382

 

I cannot locate the global image I had

at one time, but this is how much light

pollution city dwellers suffer in *one*

city *every night* of *every year* and

*havebeen* for years, getting lighter, too,

as populations spread.  And this is *outside*.

If you can't get away from artificial light

*inside* and you can't get away from

artificial light *outside* - there is no more

real *night* in many places in the world.

 

Had I been able to locate the global image,

you would have seen there are *few* places

on Earth where even migrating birds can find

a place to sleep - moreover they are having

trouble navigating and are flying into power

transmission lines, etc.

 

Toni

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