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["Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>]

On 7/23/07, Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
> Huge Dust Plumes
> From China Cause
> Changes in Climate
> July 20, 2007; Page B1
>
> 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.


Great. More crappy news. Al Gore will be all over this. Dang it, I was
feeling so cheerful and upbeat this morning. I didn't turn on NPR today,
I've started taking breaks from listening to the news now and then to give
myself a break from the troubles of the world. Will go check on pumpkin
growth and see if we've any larger than golf-ball sized, that will lift me
back up.

Lisa