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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
New Mexico only has 2 air pollution hot spots some years and when they do make the list they're barely 20th for most air polluted cities in the US.
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As time progresses, we may find that what isolates you presently, changes with changes to the Jet Stream, which is highly-dependent upon the Polar Vortex, which 'lives' where the Earth is warming the most rapidly.
Where I live, near Dallas, we've recently been experiencing the Saharan dust storms rolling off the east coast of Africa, where the hurricane embryos also enter the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ ).
When the Iraqi oil fields were set on ablaze during the Iraq War, smoke from the conflagration was observed over the American Midwest within 27-hours!
The world truly is 'connected.' And what 'is' presently, may no longer 'be' what is in the future.
About ten years ago, the 'general circulation models', climate scientists used to help predict what a 'doubling' of atmospheric greenhouse gases would 'look like', ran to around 3,600-pages of Fortran-10 code.
They work to continually improve the 'math', but it's literally a 'global' challenge.
And it takes a 'Swamp' to pay for.
Be happy you don't live in Ruidoso. Especially on the Mescalero Apache Reservation.