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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Test
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:21:15 -0700


On Jul 22, 2007, at 9:39 AM, Don Bowen wrote:

At 7/22/2007, you wrote:
Anybody out there?

Nope.

I have a chapter in my book about air quality. I never dreamed it would come to this, Don:

Huge Dust Plumes
From China Cause
Changes in Climate
July 20, 2007; Page B1

One tainted export from China can't be avoided in North America -- air.

An outpouring of dust layered with man-made sulfates, smog, industrial fumes, carbon grit and nitrates is crossing the Pacific Ocean on prevailing winds from booming Asian economies in plumes so vast they alter the climate. These rivers of polluted air can be wider than the Amazon and deeper than the Grand Canyon.

"There are times when it covers the entire Pacific Ocean basin like a ribbon bent back and forth," said atmospheric physicist V. Ramanathan at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif.

On some days, almost a third of the air over Los Angeles and San Francisco can be traced directly to Asia. With it comes up to three- quarters of the black carbon particulate pollution that reaches the West Coast, Dr. Ramanathan and his colleagues recently reported in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118470650996069354- buQPf_FL_nKirvopk__GzCmNOq8_20070818.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top






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