Talk:Asian brown cloud

message: I remove the part about the flatulence since it is most likely a joke. One Stanford website mentions that it has something to do with the use of cattle dung as fuel, while the linked websites mentions "human activities" but do not specify what activity.
--BK--
:Word choice aside, merely due to the fact that particulates are a critical component here, it is dubious that flatulence would play any part.  No source makes it even that much harder a sell. -Onceler 17:01, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that vandalism templates have helped much in the long term, but they do tend to bring attention from admins more quickly for repeated vandalism from the same IP address.  I don't know what else one can do.  The history for this page reveals countless reverts for the same text.  Since it is pretty clear the same person or group of people is involved with this recurring vandalism, in the past, I have gone right to level 4: .  Feel free to paste that on the talk page of the latest IP address doing this. -Onceler 17:01, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would suggest using level 3, i.e.  if it is clear that it is being given against a person who has vandalised before (e.g. same syle of edits)- otherwise use . Using  still gives admins the opportunity to block without further warning, whilst preventing a reduction in the impact of test4 (as admins will not automatically block after a test4 if it is not deemed appropriate). I will keep a watch on this article and semi-protect again if it gets really bad. Petros471 09:04, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Repeated vandalism

message: Should the two brown clouds have separate articles?  The South Asia/Indian Ocean one has been much more extensively studied, and many of the statements in this article refer only to it.  Any brown cloud in China appears to be much more industrially based than the South Asia/Indian Ocean one.  When I first started seeing mentions of China in this article, I wondered if someone was confusing air pollution in China with the distinct brown cloud that is permanent, albeit varies seasonally, over portions of South Asia and the Indian Ocean.  For example the first sentence of the article mentions China, but the two references that are cited do not mention China at all. I have corrected the lead sentence to reflect the cited sources.  For example, southwest asia includes iran, turkey and Armenia which are not covered by the brown cloud. --Bejnar (talk) 20:08, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Separate South Asia/Indian Ocean from China ?

message: To what extent has the decision by several corporations to abandon America at every level except retail and management had? How much of that brown cloud results from exported goods? Zaphraud (talk) 06:14, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Very little, the primary source is wood fires and biomass burning.  Read the cited reports. --Bejnar (talk) 21:15, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Buy American

message: A large section was added in Oct 2010 to impacts.  It seems to be a general discussion of air pollution and not directly related to the topic of this article.  Aside from the editor who added it, does anyone else believe that it belongs here? --Bejnar (talk) 23:46, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Impact

message: "Health
One major impact is on health. A 2002 study indicated nearly two million people die each year, in India alone, from conditions related to the brown cloud.[11]" If this is true, then it accounts for about 10 percent of yearly mortality in India. It probably refers to all respiratory related deaths in India, and not atmospheric related deaths. Since the reference link does not let you read the whole article it is not clear. The next reference (14  http://www.unep.org/pdf/ABCSummaryFinal.pdf) says 337,000 for India and China. This is a much more believable number. The sentence should be deleted or the more reasonable number should be inserted or an explanation posted here with quotes from the first article.
Avram Primack (talk) 20:03, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  This appears to be an inflated number quoted out of context 

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