-Caveat Lector-
{{I suppose Disney is right, "It's a Small World, After
All"! And would this not mean that OUR OWN pollution
spreads to others, too?
AKE}}
Asian dust storm spreads pollution across West
By ROBERT WELLER Associated Press Writer
DENVER (AP) -- A dust storm that started in Mongolia and
picked up industrial pollution from China has spread a haze
across a quarter of the mainland United States, experts said
Tuesday.
The whitish haze has been seen from Calgary, Alberta, to
Arizona to Aspen, where weekend levels of particulate --
matter that reduces visibility and can cause respiratory
problems -- quadrupled from the previous weekend.
Gene Feldman, an oceanographer from NASA's Goddard Space
Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., said aircraft have been
monitoring matter in the dust clouds.
"At one time, this dust cloud was bigger than Japan," he
said.
Russ Schnell, director of observatory operations for
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder,
said the cloud will reach the East Coast, but should
dissipate in the next several days.
In late 1998, scientists claimed to have documented the
spread of industrial pollution from China to the United
States, where it caused pollution levels as high as
two-thirds of federal health limits.
"This storm is a godsend to pollution researchers," Schnell
said. "People are finally realizing that what have been
saying for years is true. Pollution from Asia is being
carried across the oceans."
The two experts said it was unusual for such matter to be so
visible to the naked eye. In Aspen, particulate levels
measured 58 millionths of a gram per cubic meter of air,
compared with 14 millionths of a gram a week earlier.
"We had the same kind of haze when Mount St. Helen's erupted
but the particulate didn't come down to the ground level as
much," said Lee Cassin, director of Aspen's environmental
health department.
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