From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 16:12:40 MDT
In a message dated 7/25/02 14:20:07, mlorrey@yahoo.com writes:
>Actually, particulate pollution may be a hidden
>blessing. Particulates serve a highly useful function
>in the global warming equation as a coolant,
>reflecting vast quantities of sunlight away from
>earth. The recent drifting smoke from forest fires in
>northern Quebec that smothered the east coast
>essentially doused a blistering heat wave, dropping
>temperatures from 95-97 down to the mid 70's in one
>day.
Particulate pollution kills lots of people. It's not worth
cooling things off a bit.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Sat Nov 02 2002 - 09:15:40 MST