Now we can spend hours discussing the pros and cons of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and how Americans are targeted to pay dearly for some mythical claim that we are the cause of all the world's pollution.

But before this discussion there is an interesting story going around about what happened at a recent meeting in Washington, D.C. of the experts on global warming and climate changes. After the meeting it was raining outside. One observer noticed that about 80% of the expert attendees failed to bring an umbrella. Conclusion: If these experts do not know when it is going to rain in D.C. and were not prepared with an umbrella, how can we rely on their projections of what will happen 100 years from now.

Item #1: This information is mostly from Dr. Evelyn Browning Garriss' newsletter of June 22. 2001. Dr. Garriss is the daughter of Dr. Eben Browning, who was probably one of the great geniuses of our time. She is carry on with his work and is an expert in her own right on world climate and its affects on our world.

The section is entitled: "Flying Dust and Crud".

Here are excerpts from this article which is an amazing revelation.

"The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has developed a new Earth-orbiting monitor that provides the most comprehensive view to date of world air pollution transcending continents and oceans."

"...the satellite showed a major proportion of the world's pollution comes from peasant economies and natural causes."

"An important finding of the observations was that the air pollution generated in one area could be carried globally. For example, air pollution plumes from Southeast Asia move over the Pacific Ocean and reach North America, frequently in fairly high concentrations."

"Asian pollution typically takes from 4 to 10 days to cross the Pacific... Measurements of air coming from the Pacific show a jump in the concentrations of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and other pollutants from fossil-fuel combustion. "

"In 1998 a series of strong dust storms in China lifted 140 million tons of fine soil particles into the atmosphere where they were swept up by winds moving east. It took a week for the dust to reach western North America, where it turned the sky milky white.

In late April, the Asian dust was so thick that the concentrations of fine particles in the air at the usually pristine Crater Lake, Oregon, equaled 40 percent of the EPA daily allowable limit for the United States. Along with the dust came measurable quantities of arsenic, copper, lead, and zinc. The heavy metals were traced to smelters in Manchuria."

In the 1997 Kyoto Protocol the U.S. will be severely fined for exceeding standards set by the treaty; your tax dollars. So here we are about to be fined because China and other Asian countries pollute our air.

I forgot to mention that China, India, Mexico, and a host of third world developing countries are EXEMPT from the standards established for a period of 10 to 15 years. China is the second-largest emitter of greenhouse gases after the U.S.

The Wall Street Journal talking about Kyoto said, "What's really interesting, however, is that the EU not only demands that the U.S. adopt Kyoto, but that it adopt the most expensive version of it... Meanwhile, not a single EU member state has ratified Kyoto..."

This is all a scheme to lower the living standards of all Americans and transfer our wealth to other countries and their economies.

Dr. Garriss' newsletter also states: "...that African dust that crosses the Atlantic and brings beautiful sunsets to Florida also carries potentially harmful bacteria and fungi as well." A little scary-no?

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Now you know a little bit more of the story.

You have a good day.

Respectfully,

-CAFRman
Lieutenant Colonel, USAF, Retired

P.S. Dr. Evelyn Browning Garriss' Newsletter can be obtained from The Browning Newsletter, P.O. Box 494, Burlington, VT 05402. It costs $225 per year.

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