Showing again that "nuclear must rescue the earth" :-)

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@mediaone.net>]

Soot eats clouds, turns up global thermostat 

  Coal-burning power plants. Diesel-burning cars and buses. Dung burnt
for heating
  and cooking. All are sources of soot, and all combine to create a
hazy concoction
  that reduces cloud cover and enhances global warming, according to a
report in
  today's issue of Science. "There is one huge soup of pollution
coming off the
  (Indian) subcontinent," said Andy Ackerman, a scientist at NASA's
Ames Research
  Center in Moffett Field, California. "The sun comes up, black
particles absorb
  sunlight, and when they heat up they warm the air and evaporate clouds."

  Full Story:
  http://www.enn.com/news/enn-stories/2000/05/05122000/soot_12886.asp 

Regards, Jim
muckerheide@mediaone.net
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