"Brown clouds making Delhi, Beijing, darker: UNEP"

[mooseandsquirrel]

Source: Outlook India

Brown clouds of pollution are hanging over Asia, making "cities from Beijing to New Delhi" darker, melting glaciers in ranges like the Himalayas faster and turning weather systems more extreme, the UN said today.

Formed as a result of burning of fossil fuels and biomass, the Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABCs), made of soot and other manmade particles, are more than three km-thick, said a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

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Read more: http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=632885

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Read and weep.

I guess the wingnuts live where the air they breathe is fresh and pure and they need not worry about how this is going to affect them and their ill-educated offspring will be for generations to come.

[aquart]

1. They attracted our industries because of their lack of regulation.

Dealing with the devil earns you an eternity in Hell.

[maxsolomon]

2. we must lead or the rest of the planet will not address this.

we gots ours & then some, why should they sacrifice? we must sacrifice.

though i must say i believe india has a much better chance of WTFU than china. it is a democracy.

on edit: i know europe is ahead of us.

[Systematic Chaos]

3. Off to the Greatest with ya!

And just to help cheer everyone up even further: Once Peak Oil becomes a reality the amount of soot in the air will start to drop, allowing all that missing sunlight to come back down again.

How warm do you think the planet will be then?

:scared:

[reggie the dog]

4. we have these in the USA

drive up to Chicago in the summer, you can see the brown cloud from the Iowa Illinois border.

[closeupready]

6. During dry spells, you see it when you fly into O'Hare.

Esp. on descent, you 'crash' through a layer that marks the roof of the smog. :D

[roguevalley]

5. all they need is a killer fog like they had in London during the 1800's

and zillions of people will die. what an atrocity this could become.

[SOS]

7. You can see the China brown cloud from space:

[Romulox]

8. This is why one cannot be an "Environmentalist" and a "Free Trader" simultaneously.

:eyes:

[The Doctor.]

9. It's just their way of fighting Global Warming.

:silly: