Mercury from China, dust from Africa, smog from Mexico — all of it drifts freely across U.S. borders and contaminates the air millions of Americans breathe, according to recent research from Harvard University, the University of Washington and many other institutions where scientists are studying air pollution. There are no boundaries in the sky to stop such pollution, no Border Patrol agents to capture it.
Pollution wafting into the USA accounts for 30% of the nation's ozone, an important component of smog, says researcher David Parrish of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. By the year 2020, Harvard University's Daniel Jacob says, imported pollution will be the primary factor degrading visibility in our national parks.
THIRTY FREAKING PERCENT????? If President Bush allowed all the coal-fired electrical plants to take off their filters from their smokestacks, you couldn't increase pollution in this country by thirty percent! But countries like China can blow their pollution all over the place, and the lefties don't say a damn thing!
Oh, and gee, what country was exempt from the Kyoto treaty's standards? China? Gosh, you don't say!
The EPA will announce limits Tuesday on mercury emitted by U.S. power plants. But the agency estimates that 40% of the mercury that sinks out of the air and lands in the USA comes from overseas.
Think about that the next time you hear warnings about mercury polluted fish. Gah. Go read the whole thing, and then print it out so when some idiotic leftist asshat shrieks about how Bush is killing Mother Earth, you can jam a rolled up copy of this report up their ass.
Found at Radar Rider via Cold Fury.
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