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Re: [APML] Dark Sky article
Dear Glenn,
Congratulations for sticking to your guns and then being proven right!
That is what science is all about.
Paul
>Hi Everyone: In 1979 I submitted an article claiming that Gobi Dust was
>making its way all the way to Hawaii. The article was turned down by
>reviewers because "this was preposterous". One reviewer,
>however, recommended the paper be published (it was) and immediately sent
>his student to make chemical samples from Mauna Loa. These confirmed the
>allegation. I was the first scientist to propose that dust and pollutants
>travel across the Pacific and reach the central Pacific and likely even
>the west coast of the US. glenn shaw
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Schott Sent: Saturday, April
>27, 2002 8:11 PM To: astro-photo@seds.org Subject: Re: [APML] Dark Sky
>article It comes as a big suprise to many people when they finally
>realize that the U.S. isn't the big pollution villian of the world that
>we've been made up to be. In fact, we've cleaned up our act so well that
>our clean air and lands are beginning to suck in the pollution from all
>over the world. Somewhere out there on the vast internet, tucked away in
>some corner of the small Pro-U.S. portion, there's a satellite map of the
>plumes of greenhouse gasses and particulates as they eminate from all over
>the world. The U.S. has no visible plume in this chart (in fact, our
>skies appear as a dark hole of lesser pollution than the background),nor
>does most of Europe but huge plumes flow out of the third world making up
>for any benefit we may have created. Here in Florida we have been
>contending with the dust from Africa. Like your China haze, it flies in
>on the trade winds way up high. A thin yellow veil that obscures more
>than it should in starlight. During the day it's a yellowish brown haze,
>at night it's a star diffusing sky darkening schmutz that ruins your
>work. It falls as a fine grit on cars left out in the night dew and
>sometimes you can actually smell it. It's usually worse during hurricane
>season but it seems to be coming in early this year. When it's here, it's
>much worse than Mt. Penatubo's ash ever was.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: Tony Hallas To: astro-photo@seds.org
>Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 9:11 PM Subject: Re: [APML] Dark Sky
>article
> Dale, 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
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University of WI-Whitewater
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