Dennis T. Avery: Asia's Brown Pollution Cloud: Caused by Renewable Fuels!

That vast cloud of brown pollution hanging over Asia comes from wood and cattle
dung being burned in millions of Third World home-fires, according to Orjan Gustafsson, a bio-geochemist from Stockholm University. Gustaffsson recently tested the smoke of the Asian brown cloud with a newly developed radiocarbon technique-and found that two-thirds of the brown cloud's particles are organic matter, mostly wood, straw and dung.

These are the "renewable fuels" that Greenpeace and the Sierra Club doesn't want publicized. They'd rather not focus on the harsh reality that these open cooking and heating fires are dreadful for the health of Asian women and children. The lung diseases caused by the indoor smoke are equal to a two-pack-a-day cigarette habit, says Barun Mitra of India's Liberty Institute.

The burden of indoor smoke has been worse in the past two globally-colder winters, as temperatures have turned sharply downward from the peak warming of 1998.
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How long must the non-correlation of CO2 and temperatures go on before we start a new crusade-to get gas, oil, and electricity for the world's poor so we can preserve the health of third world women and children while saving forests and topsoil?