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To: frankw1900 who wrote (85191)11/9/2004 9:28:13 PM
From: Ilaine   of 793868
 
The most recent National Geographic has a map of the earth at night in color, that shows various light and heat sources at night. Worth looking at.

Some of the biggest pollution sources are Chinese factories, which have no pollution control and are not covered by Kyoto. (That's not on this map, it's on NASA websites showing smoke and air pollution during the daytime.)

Also, natural gas burn off in places like Nigeria. 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas are burned off every year worldwide as a byproduct of extraction, and in refineries. That's American billions, 1 with 9 zeros behind.

Not to mention slash-and-burn agriculture in Africa, South America, and Asia.

But I have read predictions that the human population will top out and start declining in about 50 years. Hard to imagine, but we already see it in Europe, Japan, and even in China, where the "one child only" laws are starting to have an effect.
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