Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Air Pollution Causes Larger Hail
You are not going to believe this.
In my constant quest to find info about hail storms or damage I ran across an article from AFP, that's the French News Agency. It quotes a bunch of Italian scientists who, in their super scientist wisdom, have determined that air pollution causes hail stones to be larger and hit the ground with more force.
If this were the case, wouldn't every major metro in the U.S. get pounded every year? We sit around praying for big, dirty air, metros to get pounded and watch it hail out in the boonies. Why does the part of the country with the cleanest air (The plains of western Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, etc.) consistently receive devastating baseball hail?
This story is just another case of people believing anything just because someone in a white coat said so.
You can read this poppy-cock here.
