The World's Pollution Is Not Here
Rush Limbaugh
Originally Published on RushLimbaugh.com
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The truth is out there. And when it comes to the whole environment issue, it's on a NASA web site. Folks, I want you to check out something. It's a NASA site with moving images showing exactly where the greatest carbon dioxide emissions are in the world. And whadaya know - it's not anywhere near the United States.
You'll find some, but you won't find the deadly, highest levels, the concentrated amounts that have the wackos screaming Armageddon. The greatest concentration of CO2 is in South America and the southwest coast of Africa. The images on the site show where the pollution starts, how it travels, and where it ends up.
Now, the site comes in two forms, JPEG and MPEG, and if you've got a fast enough connection, use the MPEG so you can see this thing in motion. If you look at the whole year in motion - I watched the moving image for the year 2000 - you'll find that it's places like China and Eastern Europe where the greatest concentration of these gases and these emissions happen to be. And it makes sense. They're places that are lesser developed in terms of cleaning up.
What's fascinating is, if you watch repeatedly throughout the year 2000, you can see a pretty large pocket of intense carbon monoxide traveling across the Pacific Ocean, and as it reaches the United States, it weakens, and hits normal levels. It's the most incredible thing.
The darkest colors, brown and black, represent the deepest concentration of emissions. Then you go to red, yellow, blue, and green. The blue and green are the least intense, the smallest amounts of emissions. Folks, the United States is entirely blue and green. Never once does the color red or brown in the year 2000 materialize over this country.
Eyes on the Sky
The NASA site fully explains how they've gathered their information using a Terra satellite. It also proves what I've said time and time again, that nature plays a much bigger role in greenhouse gas emissions than anything else. In fact, 95% of all greenhouse gases are produced by nature.
Even though there are tremendous amounts of these greenhouse gases in the northern hemisphere, you will not find them over the United States. You just won't. And yet Kyoto points the finger at us - we're evil, we're the ones polluting the world and have to stop. I just want to know why so many people, when they hear this, don't get their backs up in anger and say, "Why are you blaming us? We're the most technologically advanced country in the world." Well, you know why they're blaming us? They want our money.
And as far as these silly polls go - just because the American people think this, doesn't mean Bush ought to just follow them. What if they're wrong? When it comes to this whole global warming issue that's exactly what they are - wrong. The American people, God love them, just aren't informed on this.
The political thing to do is follow the American people - that will get you reelected. But if we really want to find a solution to this problem - following the crowd isn't going to get us there. Like I said, the truth is out there. You've just got to educate yourself instead of blindly accepting fiction as fact.
Global Carbon Monoxide (Air Pollution) Measurements
Originally Published on VisibleEarth.nasa.gov
NASA's Terra spacecraft has assembled the most complete view ever of the world's air pollution travelling through the atmosphere, across continents and oceans. For the first time, policymakers and scientists now have a way to identify the major sources of air pollution and to closely track where the pollution goes, anywhere on Earth. The false colors in these images represent levels of carbon monoxide in the lower atmosphere, ranging from about 390 parts per billion (dark brown pixels), to 220 parts per billion (red pixels), to 50 parts per billion (blue pixels).
Carbon monoxide is a gaseous byproduct from the burning of fossil fuels, in industry and automobiles, as well as burning of forests and grasslands. Notice in the April 30, 2000, image that levels of carbon monoxide are much higher in the Northern Hemisphere, where human population and human industry is much greater than in the Southern Hemisphere. However, in the October 30, 2000, image notice the immense plumes of the gas emitted from forest and grassland fires burning in South America and Southern Africa. The movements of carbon monoxide around the globe are particularly striking when viewed as a movie spanning a 10-month period.
The new global air pollution monitor onboard Terra is the innovative Measurements Of Pollution In The Troposphere, or MOPITT sensor, which was contributed to the Terra mission by the Canadian Space Agency. The instrument was developed by Canadian scientists at the University of Toronto and built by COM DEV International of Cambridge, Ontario. The data were processed by a team at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), in Boulder, CO.