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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (23518)	12/23/2008 12:35:49 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 36917

TP, the amount of soot, desert dust, forest fire, volcano and other airborne debris is infinitesimal compared with the ocean mass. Water pollution which matters is that concentrated into ground water, streams and rivers. Harbours and rivers are rendered lifeless at worst and very often so grossly murky that they are not fit for humans to ingest. But oceans, which collect the detritus from air via rain nucleated on the particles, is too big to be affected. Air quality which matters is urban air quality which is limited by our breathing concerns. Long before oceanic problems arise, our lungs will have seized up. Yes, there is a LOT of airbone muck. The whole northern hemisphere is so polluted that the sun intensity is dull compared with the viciously bright sun we enjoy in NZ. That's partly why we are world champions at melanoma. People can spend a lot of time naked in the north but 30 minutes in NZ and white skin goes pink and burns. Mqurice