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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (44301)	1/5/2004 9:14:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<the black streaks of particulate muck is fine sand, very fine blown in from Mongolian regions> Malcolm, thanks for the input. I have seen sufficient actual smoke coming out of chimneys and exhausts and sufficient fire bricks being delivered around the hutongs to know that that's a problem in itself. London's black muck, which was comparable in the 1980s, was due to diesel engines and home fires. Same for Milan. Disgusting diesels belching clouds of gunk. Even the Los Angeleans who mess around with catalytic converters allow filthy diesels to roam around belching clouds of goop. Goop is a scientifically different term from gunk, reflecting the slightly different pollution processes. There is definitely quite a layer of dust, not soot, on my nice, new bicycle and I hear there are some sand dunes some tens of kilometres from Beijing. So I guess the answer is blowing in the wind. Seeing the sun set in the sky on a clear blue day, well up from the horizon, just disappearing into smog like a big red Chinese lantern being snuffed out, is a bit weird. I'm used to a blazing furnace dropping out of a clear blue sky into a clear blue ocean [if it's not raining, which it usually is in NZ!!] Cough, choke... Mqurice