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Study: Jet Exhaust Affects Weather
An anonymous submitter writes: "Warp 10 speeds may affect... Ooops, wrong story.. Apparently, jets are affecting the weather and contributing to about a 3 degree daily temperature variation. Even a single degree variation in overall temperature (climate) is significant, but I'm not certain how significant is 3 degrees in local temperatures." We mentioned this before - there was a Wired story - but now their work has been published in Nature and the AP has picked up the story.
My personal exhaust raises the temperature of my shorts by several degrees. With 4+ billion people doing this world-wide, wouldn't this have a greater impact?
until I thought, what should be the punishment for those who inconsiderately make my hair and clothes stink and aggravate my asthma? Especially the ones who do not seem to have heard of dry-cleaning/washable clothes?
Perhaps a lingering and painful death? No, that would be too harsh. I don't even wish that on mass murderers or rapists. Perhaps spammers.
But then I thought hey, that's what they have chosen as a potential punishment for themselves without me even needing to do anything. So the anger has gone. I don't think that second-hand smoking will kill me, merely make my food in a restaurant taste horrible.
Of course I am sorry for those who lost relatives or friends due to smoking before the dangers were known.
As for your opposition to hygiene rules in public bathhouses, I come from a nanny state where press campaigning, neighbours complaints and local politicians would seize upon such an issue; I doubt it would be permitted de jure. If you ran a discreet private members club it might pass for a while de facto, as are many many other infringements of the law where I live. I understand San Francisco had to clean up the bathhouses a lot in the early 1980s when AIDS came to prominence, but I am not familiar with the current situation over there. I do not wear a yellow hankerchief myself, in either pocket.