Consider the Implications
from Houston Chronicle:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4604433.html
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4604433.html
March 6, 2007, 12:35AM
Scientists say Asia's soot causing weather imbalance
By ERIC BERGER
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
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Pollution from the burning of wood and coal in Asia has spiked in recent years, causing increasingly erratic weather across much of the Northern Hemisphere, scientists say.
A team of researchers, led by Renyi Zhang at Texas A&M University, has linked soot from power plants and other sources to an intensification of wintertime storms over the North Pacific during the last two decades.
"If you change this storm system over the Pacific, you're going to change the weather everywhere," said Zhang, a professor of atmospheric sciences.
It is the first time pollution has been linked to such far-reaching changes in weather, changes that could include stronger winter storms, especially along the Pacific coast from California to Alaska.
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posted by SkiSickness at 1:44 PM
2 Comments:
Combine this with a catostrophic volcanic eruption, such as the Mazama eruption, and things would get real crazy. Obviously the chances of this occuring during our life time is infitesimally small.
Speaking of the Mazama eruption, I always thought it would be novel to ski Wizard Island in Crater Lake.
I like the way you're thinking. That would certainly bode well for glaciers of the Cascades.
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