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To: Zoltan! who wrote (21349)	5/6/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: LoLoLoLita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Zoltan!, Good Heavens! I in no way thought that you were calling me stupid. I was referring to the debate of pro-nukies versus the radiophobes. A true sign of an enquiring mind is the ability to learn from someone's own mistakes, as well as the mistakes of others. It was a mistake for me to post "hearsay" here on a topic for which the source had unknown reliability. But I confess that I was impressed with her being in the French Academy and took her reply as being from a reliable source, but her area of expertise is global climate change, not nuclear technologies. What I learned from this is that experts can sometimes be bamboozled by other experts who rank higher on the totem pole of science, with members of National Academies being at the top rank. She did tell me something interesting about her own area that some here might find interesting. And it is tangentially related to nuclear power. And I do put great credence in her on this topic. In brief: The main focus of global climate change at present is not the gradual global warming than many seem to believe is occurring. Rather, the main concern is human activities causing localized heating or cooling in specific regions. She cited China as an example, which burns a lot of coal w/o scrubbers, releasing large amounts of particulates. China is found to be cooling as a result. When some regions warm and others cool due to human activities, the effect on global weather patterns is thought to disrupt the "natural/historical" flow patterns. One example of such is El Nino. According to my aunt, many researchers now believe that these global changes in wind flow are resulting in increased frequencies of El Nino, hurricanes, droughts, and torrential rains--oftentimes to the detriment of someone, somewhere. David P.S. Her name is M.L. Chanin. At UNCOVER, I just found 17 scientific papers with her name as author or coauthor, all on upper atmosphere: 1 Chanin, M. L. Recent lidar developments to monitor stratospher [07/01/94] Journal of atmospheric and terrestri 2 Chanin, M.L. Contribution to the New Reference Atmosphere Fro [00/90] Advances in space research : the of 3 Chanin, M.L. Doppler Lidar for Measuring Winds in the Middl [11/01/89] Geophysical research letters. 4 Chanin, M.L. Lidar Sounding of Mesopheric Sodium in Central A [00/90] Advances in space research : the of 5 Chanin, M.-L. SPARC Programme. [00/95] Physics and chemistry of the earth. 6 Chanin, M.-L. Solar activity - Q.B.O. effect in the lower [10/01/89] Annales geophysicae. Atmospheres, h 7 Garnier, A. Description of a Doppler Rayleigh LIDAR for MEas [07/01/92 Fax 1HR] Applied physics. B, Photophysics 8 Hauchecorne, A. LIDAR Monitoring of the Temperature in the Middl [07/01/92] Applied physics. B, Photophysics a 9 Keckhut, P. Critical Review of the Database Acquired for t [12/01/93 Fax 1HR] Journal of atmospheric and oceanic 10 Keckhut, P. Middle Atmosphere Response to the 27-Day Solar R [04/24/92] Geophysical research letters. 11 Keckhut, P. Midlatitude long-term variability of the middle [09/20/95] Journal of geophysical research. At 12 Keckhut, P. Stratosphere temperature measurement using Raman [12/01/90] Applied optics. 13 Nardi, B. Morphology and Dynamics of the Pinatubo Aerosol [09/15/93] Geophysical research letters. 14 Nedeljkovic, D. Rotational Raman Lidar to Measure the Atmospheri [01/01/93] IEEE transactions on geoscience and 15 Wilson, R. Gravity Wave Spectra in the Middle Atmosphere as [09/01/90] Geophysical research letters. 16 Wilson, R. Gravity Waves in the Middle Atmosphere Observed [03/20/91] Jgr. journal of geophysical research 17 Wilson, R. Gravity Waves in the Middle Atmosphere Observed [03/20/91] Jgr. journal of geophysical research