On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:08:53 EDT, Phyllis and Jim
wrote:

I would be really discouraged by that much of a bloom!..I am thinking
about how our blooms grow in response to nutrients. Will pulling it
off the sea make it go away? Seems to me the answer is negative.
Jim

I so agreed. Apparently the Chinese don't pond.... though I thought the
hobby came from that side of the world?

What threw me in the article was they're forcing people to clean it up (I
assume that means non-paid) some have volunteered.... yea... ??? So did
they volunteer or were they threaten into volunteering? Regardless seems a
lot of bad things are happening to China lately. Unfortunately they aren't
placing the blame in the right place for this algae bloom according to the
article. As ponders we know, nutrients feed algae, not warm water. There
are lots of people who have cool ponds with lots of algae. And rainfall?
Only if it is causing runoff from polluted areas.

I will hope the reporter got it wrong and the Chinese aren't that stupid to
think the world will believe those explanations. And I will hope the
Chinese will learn that it is seriously time to clean up their act as they
become a developed nation.

And here I thought in a dictatorship they would have more power over the
people and pollution, apparently not. Why didn't they mandate from the
beginning to only allow hybrid cars once people started driving more?
Hmmmm...... ~ jan
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