Geepfreak
May 31st, 2006, 21:25
Just another fun little snip'it to laugh about..
this morning has a story on how dust from Jeeps are destroying the planet causing early melting of snow, repratory diseases in China and adding to global warming. Listen this morning if you would like a laugh. Since they can't drain Lake Powel, they have a new goal.
You can also listen or read at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5415315
"That havoc can cause the death of coral reefs in the Carribean. That havoc can be people in Beijing dying of respiratory diseases," Belnap says. "There’s a lot of things in dust that are not great things to have floating around in the air."
"...Moab, a one-time uranium mining center that is now a tourist town, there's a lot of dust in the air. We just had a jeep safari this weekend, which is when 10,000 jeeps show up here, and ATVs, and they run all over the place," Belnap said. "When we have activities like that, and it doesn't rain for a while, we get huge dust production off the area.
Jeeps are still streaming out of town as Belnap drives down the road. When they're off road, Jeeps break up a living barrier in the soil, a biological crust, that normally keeps dust from blowing. Cattle break up that crust, too. So do deer, which are much more abundant these days because cattlemen have made water available everywhere. And a prolonged drought in the area has made a bad problem even worse."
-NPR Morning Edition & Jayne Belnap, Moab resident "scientist"
this morning has a story on how dust from Jeeps are destroying the planet causing early melting of snow, repratory diseases in China and adding to global warming. Listen this morning if you would like a laugh. Since they can't drain Lake Powel, they have a new goal.
You can also listen or read at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5415315
"That havoc can cause the death of coral reefs in the Carribean. That havoc can be people in Beijing dying of respiratory diseases," Belnap says. "There’s a lot of things in dust that are not great things to have floating around in the air."
"...Moab, a one-time uranium mining center that is now a tourist town, there's a lot of dust in the air. We just had a jeep safari this weekend, which is when 10,000 jeeps show up here, and ATVs, and they run all over the place," Belnap said. "When we have activities like that, and it doesn't rain for a while, we get huge dust production off the area.
Jeeps are still streaming out of town as Belnap drives down the road. When they're off road, Jeeps break up a living barrier in the soil, a biological crust, that normally keeps dust from blowing. Cattle break up that crust, too. So do deer, which are much more abundant these days because cattlemen have made water available everywhere. And a prolonged drought in the area has made a bad problem even worse."
-NPR Morning Edition & Jayne Belnap, Moab resident "scientist"