CB I hadn't heard that. I believe it. I remember some of the best sunsets I enjoyed years ago were due to the volcano in the Philippines, and then a couple of years ago I remember watching a news report on the Sunsets in Florida due to the dust storm..... FROM AFRICA!
If I think of the amount of tax payer money which has gone to fund
http://www.valleyair.org/index.htm
between salaries, taxpayer funding of mis-information, I get sick.
I laugh at all the years we have been told that our 'own' air is our 'own' problem - ie no outside influences...
when in this year alone two major fires have spawned air quality alerts hundreds of miles away. People are so dim witted, they want problems solved, as long as it isn't in their backyard.
If conservation is such a problem, why don't they outlaw Christmas lights, trees?
if Auto pollution is SUCH a problem, why not pick one day a month where NO ONE drives. WHY? IT WON"T MATTER!!!!