On Dec 22, 2008, at 6:50 AM, R C Macaulay wrote:
Howdy Horace,
Anyone aware of the huge dead spot in the Gulf of Mexico off the
coast of Louisana must be concerned. This problem is primarily
caused by runoff into the Mississippi river and it's tributaries.
There are remedies.
We, as a nation, have few remedies for air pollution in China and
India, except as an avenue for Al Gore, et.al. to make some money
selling carrbon credits.
US coal fired power plants are a major source of our air pollution,
Locally, the Fayette Power Plants( State owned) are finally
addressing "ole smoky" by installing a new smokestack with
scrubbers. It has been 28 years of promises by the state of Texas.
Blah Blah..Meanwhile private industry plants were forced by the
state to clean up their act years ago.
Our government in action.
Richard
The dying arctic plankton and dying coral reefs in the Pacific are
not dying from "air pollution" or water pollution per se. They are
dying from the increase in CO2 and the increase in water
temperature. This is not to say scrubbers and other pollution
control measures are bad, but rather they don't address the most
significant anthropogenic problem - CO2 production by the burning of
fossil fuels.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
