Jay Currie

Soot from the factories of Asia is changing weather across the Pacific Ocean and causing storms like the December howler that clobbered Vancouver’s Stanley Park, a new study says.

For a change, scientists aren’t blaming global warming for the increase in number and intensity of storms. The new study blames sooty, sulphurous coal smoke from Asian industry—largely in China and India—for altering the eastbound “storm track” in the Pacific. vancouver sun via sda

I keep saying that the solution is to buy nothing from China….as if.

I’m hoping to find a market to trade soot offsets. So far, no luck. Apparently algore has not heard about soot. And, by the way, there is some evidence that changing ice conditions in the Arctic, if these changes are happening at all, may well be attributable to soot as well. Makes the ice darker and thus more heat absorbent.

However, I remain content to blame George Bush.