Wednesday, June 22, 2005
FEAR OF STEAM
A letter in this week’s Bulletin:
Why are articles on global warming-pollution-the end of the world so often illustrated with a picture of cooling towers? While the spectacle of a giant tower belching out white smoke may alarm, the stuff coming out the top is nothing more than water or, more precisely, water vapour, and probably the only thing it may do is increase the possibility of rain.
Tony Reed, Dalmeny, NSW
It won’t happen again, Mr Reed. At least not in The Bulletin; I can’t speak for the BBC. J.F. Beck has more on the story at that link, and Terry McCrann notes standard behaviour from the usual suspects: “The executive director of Greenpeace International, Gerd Liepold, has been wandering around Australia receiving reverential treatment from adoring acolytes on the ABC.”