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Default OT. What on Earth?

Dean Hoffman posted for all of us...



What on Earth is a show on the Science channel. It was showing results
from a satellite named GOME. Its job is to monitor ozone levels. It
spots
other things as well. Scientists were a bit baffled by a big cloud over
the
U.S. The cloud covered a large share of the country east of the Rockies.
It turns out the cloud was because of the countries corn crop growing.
The U.S. corn crop puts out 40% more oxygen then the Amazon rainforest.
A bit he
https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/esa-operational-eo-missions/ers/instruments/gome
if anyone is interested.


Did Al Gore comment?

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