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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (458383)	9/13/2003 7:23:29 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You wrote:<font color=blue>"Any informed individual knows we don't know for sure if the current period is part of any global warming or cooling and what weather impact human activity is having short or long term."<font color=black> I agree. We don't know the effects of the millions of tons of raw sewerage being dumped into our oceans each year. We do know that many species of eatable ocean fish contain human feces and dangerous levels of chemicals. We don't know the effects of the tons of chemicals being dumped, worldwide, into streams and fields each year. We do know that many species of fresh water fish have dangerous levels of mercury and other chemicals. We don't know what will happen because of the ever increasing and visible layers of air polution over most cities. We can't say for sure that the significant increase in Asthma and lung diseases can be attributed to the decrease in air quality. Perhaps our children or our grandchildren will find out? Here is an interesting article about the "<font color=brown>Asian Brown Cloud".<font color=black> quinion.com From the article: "It is a vast cloud of smog three kilometres deep, enveloping the whole of southern Asia—a soup of industrial pollutants, carbon monoxide from vehicle exhausts and particles of soot from burning forests and millions of rural cooking fires. It blocks 15% of sunlight, which reduces crop yields. It also creates acid rain, leads to respiratory illnesses, reduces rainfall and causes extreme weather events. Because the cloud is capable of being dispersed rapidly around the world, it may affect a much wider area than just Asia."