MLB teams waste effort and money on global warming as pollutants come from China no matter what they do.

NewsTribune.com: "By some estimates more than 10 billion pounds of airborne pollutants from Asia – ranging from soot to mercury to carbon dioxide to ozone – reach the United States annually. The problem is expected to worsen as some

• Chinese officials have warned that pollution in their country could quadruple in the next 15 years if not curbed.

While some scientists are skeptical, others say the Asian pollution could destabilize weather patterns across the North Pacific, mask the effects of global warming,

• reduce rainfall in the American West and

• compromise efforts to meet air pollution standards in the United States.

“East Asia pollution aerosols could impose far-reaching environmental impacts at continental, hemispheric and global scales because of long-range transport,” according to a report earlier this year in the Journal of Geophysical Research. The report said that a

• “warm conveyor belt” lifts the pollutants into the upper troposphere over Asia, where winds can wing it to the United States in a week or less....

Particulates including dust and soot, along with heavy metals, pesticides, PCBs, mercury, ozone, carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, have all been found. Jaffe said the pollutants can’t be tracked to a single source such as a particular coal-burning plant,

• but their “chemical fingerprints” can point to a specific country....

The pollution from Asia will make it increasingly difficult for the United States to meet stricter and stricter air quality standards, said Lyatt Jaegle, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington.

• “It is only expected to get worse,” Jaegle said of the Asian air pollution reaching the United States. He added that scientists have discovered that the problem isn’t unique to the Pacific Rim....

GLOBAL DIMMING...

• They’ve also helped confirm global dimming as sunlight reaching the planet’s surface is

• decreasing because the airborne pollution reflects it back to space.

• In some places, such as Israel, sunlight has decreased 10 percent, Jaffe said.

The pollution also can mask the effect of global warming by reflecting the sunlight, said Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a climate researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California who heads the team of scientists flying the unmanned vehicles off Korea this summer.

• The UAVs started flying as China shut down factories and banned automobiles from Beijing

• during the Summer Olympics. They’re still flying as

• pollution levels again increase....

The reduction in sunlight could be increasing rainfall

• or it might be decreasing rainfall

because of less evaporation off the ocean, Ramanathan said. In addition, the soot falling on mountains in the Western United States could increase snowmelt, he said."...

• As was obvious before this article, the hijacking of baseball and planned diversion of much of the US economy is just a scam to make rich guys richer and everyone else poorer. (sm)

MLB involved in global warming agenda

• Chinese government admits faulty building standards caused fatalities. 9/4/08

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