Here's a link to Friday's LA Times article:
"Asia's Wind-Borne
Pollution a Hazardous Export to U.S.
Air:
Dust, chemicals travel a long way. "We're a small world," one scientist
says.
Air:
Dust, chemicals travel a long way. "We're a small world," one scientist
says.----- Original Message -----From: Tony HallasSent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 6:11 PMSubject: Re: [APML] Dark Sky articleDale,It gets worse...I just read an article yesterday about all the air pollution coming across the Pacific from China... air pollution and dust. They burn mostly coal over there, the soil is being turned into "desert-like" terrain by excessive clearing of land, they produce 40,000,000 TONS of sulfur dioxide a year and other numerous pollutants on a scale that is hard to imagine... and it all blows over here, especially in the Spring.I live in a fairly pristine area but I have always wondered why the sky sometimes has this high altitude scrim to it... sometimes white, sometimes a pale yellow... now I know what it is.Since almost everything in the world is now being made in China, I have decided that all I can do as an individual is stop buying anything that is made there... at least until they cut back on their pollution, which is not going to happen any time soon.Tony