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...voters incorrectly believe that smog and acid rain are running wild, they will want attention focused on those short-term priorities. If voters understand that all regular forms of air pollution are in decline anyway, they may support shifting the spotlight to greenhouse gases, where the danger is. And voters--as well as environmental pessimists--also need to know this: all air-pollution initiatives to date, such as tailpipe controls on cars, have been cheaper and more effective than predicted. This gives us reason to be optimistic that global-warming controls will be affordable and effective too. By pretending that...
...Midwestern power-plant emissions that Northeastern commentators constantly depict as a horror? Such emissions are a problem--but a declining problem. Levels of sulfur dioxide (acid rain) from Midwestern power plants have dropped 40% in the past two decades, even as electricity production keeps rising; emissions of nitrogen oxide from Midwestern plants are also declining. At the worst, Bush's recent decision to encourage the modernization of Midwestern power plants will only slow the future rate of decline...
...when you are backpacking in the woods, you have to be ready for anything. It can start to rain buckets in an instant, and even tough hiking boots cannot protect you from roots, stones, slick trails and steep ascents. Trying to make it to camp—hours from a phone or an ambulance—and persevering through tricky terrain, the group has to calmly accommodate the unexpected...
Washington said Harvard’s turnout for the speech was “great, considering it’s in the middle of the school day and today was forecasted for rain...
...then, there's plenty of tenacity in the country these days. You can see it in the smooth, blacktop highways and freshly paved mountain passes of the new Vietnam. Step off them for a short while and you might encounter the old, glimpsing rain clouds rolling over banana plantations, with miles of jungle all around. And you can always run into recent history-outside Khe Sanh, we find a remnant of the old trail, untouched for decades and made up of 10 kilometers of jagged rock that's hell to drive, even on a Minsk...