Darren New wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> Haha. What?
> 
> Been to Europe lately? You know, Venice sinking into the water, statues 
> being moved inside because acid rain is melting them, etc?
> 

I haven't actually, but yeah, thought it might have something to do with 
acid rain, but also figured that was a worldwide thing.

> I will say that LA is the only city I've been in that was as close to 
> being as polluted as Paris and Beijing were when I was there. And that's 
> because LA is in a big natural bowl and had awful air pollution even 
> before Christopher Columbus got to the New World. (The native americans 
> called it "the valley of smoke" because all the smoke from forest fires 
> would end up settling there.)
> 

Heh, I remember the first time I landed in LA, I immediately noticed the 
yellowish smog layer over the entire valley.

-- 
~Mike

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