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Article: How now, brown cloud?(COMMENTARY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- August 19, 2002
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Byline: Patrick J. Michaels, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The United Nations will throw its biggest environmental party in 10 years later this month in Johannesburg. In preparation, the U.N. has rushed to publication a preliminary report about a new environmental pestilence, the so-called Asian Brown Cloud (ABC). The U.N. says the Brown Cloud will kill millions and wreck the Asian Monsoon, which is responsible for feeding about 2 billion people in one way or another. But like many U.N. environmental reports this one fails to mention some crucial points.
Nightmarish reports like the ABC have a way of appearing right before big U.N. environmental ...