ENVIRONMENT: How now, brown cloud?*

The debate on global warming, on which the Kyoto Pact leans so heavily, is still giving out more heat than light. After having been first noticed in the 1980s by pilots operating from Diego Garcia, “it” has now been “discovered” by the world media, talked about for a few days, then dropped. Possibly for reasons I’ll shortly be suggesting. And the UN has wrenched its binoculars away from the ice floes of the Antarctic and the atolls of the South West Pacific, to look at “it”.”It” is a 26 million …

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