US Discovers It's Part of the World
The pollution from Asia will only make it increasingly difficult for the U.S. to meet stricter and stricter air quality standards, said Lyatt Jaegle, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle .
"It is only expected to get worse," Jaegle said of the Asian air pollution reaching the U.S. She added that scientists have discovered the problem isn't unique to the Pacific Rim . "Air pollution is not a local or regional problem, it is a global problem."
No, really? (Via Slashdot.)
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Perhaps their massive wind farms will blow it all back again. p
Hi Glyn!
I really like to read your blog, but one thing that bothers me about it are the occasional Environmental posts. I don't see how they are related to open-source/open-content, and they detract from the general quality and on-topicness of this blog.
If you want to blog about the environment, please start a new blog.
Regards,
-- Shlomi Fish
Well, the logic goes like this.
Open source is about creating a software commons. Open content, open access, open data do the same. The idea of a commons is actually central to all these opens.
The ultimate in commons is, of course, the environment, made up of specific commons like the atmosphere, water, minerals etc.
So I think that the environment is not just related to open source, but in some sense underpins the whole idea. I also think that openness, in all its forms, feeds into defending that ultimate commons.
As a result, I expect to write increasingly about it....
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