[APML] Dark Sky article

["Dale Ireland" <direland@drdale.com>]

Hi
The current issue of Science News has an interesting article on light
pollution.
April 20, 2002 page 248, Deprived of Darkness, the Unnatural Ecology of
Artificial Light at Night by Ben Harder.
Although not credited, the issue's cover photo entitled "Blinded By The
Night" is a shot of Seattle :( my closest city, which has become infamous
for our former forward thinking democratic mayor Paul Schell's "Millennium
Lighting Project" which lit buildings, parks, and bridges with the worst
sort of upward pointing spot lights and included a multi-million watt beam
directed skyward from our George Jetson Space Needle. Fortunately the power
shortage has limited the hours of operation of the beam which can be seen
for a 50 miles.
Anyway, the article is an eye-opener, so to speak, and may provide some ammo
for the dark sky movement.
Dale


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