Latest Cloud Message?

We just received a strange message from Nick Boole. He claims it came from the black cloud directly to his phone! He faxed us a photo of it from a copyshop. The transmission was poor, but it resolves to this text:

I have a dream: The air is fresh
but smog blows through my heavy mesh
fifteen cars I make them legal
with the fed and for the seagull

Let us know if you can figure out what it means, and post to the sightings. Save the planet!

Del Sci del ZEN del Ti del Ci

After finally hacking my way into this site, I am in a position to correct some of the half-truths that have been spread around here about the Black Cloud, and then also about me. For example, the talk that my former employer, Greg Niemeyer gave somewhere in South Central. After going on and on about Venice or Florence, he said that I was nuts, and that the cloud is not real. The opposite is true. I am real, and the cloud is real too. The cloud is nuts, but I am not. I am just the messenger. And I am here to tell you that the only chance to learn about the cloud is by looking closely at the data of the sensors. It takes at least 12 sensors to see the cloud, so collect 'em all. I sent them to various places in South Central, because I know the cloud is there. I have to work in the background, but I am sure the citizens of South Central will find them. They did it before. They fought for justice, against incineration, and they will fight for knowledge. They will become citizen scientists they will run their own studies they will read the graphs and learn to tell the signs and here is a clue the cloud loves science and the cloud loves children and the cloud loves candles that burn all night.
I am Nick Boole. I find out stuff about where I live, and if don't like it or realize it makes me unhealthy I think about changing it then I discuss it with all my friends even those who passed on then I make changes and stick to them I don't cook with gas because the cloud does not NOT like it the cloud likes electric. The cloud hates the gases from people and from stoves and from peole's stoves.
Now I am citizen scientist. I know my rights. I know my tools. I work the tools and use my rights. It is a democracy for those who know and the cloud likes it when we raise our eyes and look, when we raise our heads and think, when we raise our hands and vote for we are ci ti ZEN sci en tists

Black Cloud Books

For some reason, the Daily Polluter received a batch of almost 30 books from a certain RKL. They are all the same text, "The Black Cloud", but in different editions. The author is the British Astronomer Fred Hoyle. What to do with that stash? Well, The Daily Polluter read one of them. The novel reads well and is quite intriguing intellectually, but socially a bit dated. The whole novel has only two women in it, and each time, they bring tea and fall in love with dominant males. The Black Cloud itself, on the other hand, is not dated at all, a sentient mass of gas engulfing the earth, causing floods, climate changes, and even global warming. Sounds just like some of our cloud sightings. And it also...well, you should see for yourself. Now what with all the books? It would be great to find a high school teacher who would want a reading set of this book.

The Scale Cluster

An emerging pattern in global warming is scale change. Some plants and animals, mostly insects, grow larger. Sardines got so much larger that the can sizes need to be changed. Glaciers and healthy forests become much smaller. Plants grow in regions where they never grew before and take over so-called native species.

But, as Maury Green says, "native is just a question of habits, and we have to accept the fact that habits change."

"Of course, when well understood, shifts in growth patterns can also lead to new economic opportunities." says Penny Woods as she refers us to the recent New York Times Magazine article on the potentially positive effects of  weeds on the climate. 

Indeed, according to famed biologist Bartholomew, "Size constrains virtually every aspect of structure and function and strongly influences the nature of most inter- and intraspecific interactions."

BID Lab Freak Leak

Big News! A researcher named Nicolas Boole has revealed some details about the inner workings of the secretive BID Lab. What he has to say is fascinating, however we cannot guarantee the truth of these statements - Boole lost his job following a nervous breakdown;

"The Black Cloud is alive! ALIVE I TELL YOU! They say I've gone mad, but they haven't seen what I've seen!
Everyday this spring I'd been collecting data - can't tell you how... After talking to Black Cloud witnesses I got this funny feeling that I was being followed. I locked myself in my apartment. I had to keep that dirty cloud out, so I switched all the lights on, turned the heat all the way up, sealed all the windows and doors with tape and started cleaning the whole place with Clorox.
I was feeling sort of ill when I heard some bizarro stat1c sounds coming out 0f my laptop. I listened closer and it seemed l1ke I could hear words. It t0ld me to c0me cl0ser. I walked over and suddenly the Black Cloud was all around me, techn1c0l0r eyes staring into my soul. I was f1lled w1th a kind 0f electr1c1ty - I felt l1ke I c0uld do anyth1ng! Kn0w anyth1ng! Take 0ver the w000rld!"(original sighting

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BID Lab team leader Greg Niemeyer issued a brief statement;

"Mr. Boole was a genius but he was becoming impossible to work with so I had to let him go. He exhibited signs of megalomania - delusions that he had Godlike powers. We all wish him a speedy recovery."(official site)

A coworker, who requested to remain anonymous, said;

"Nick had become obsessed with Black Cloud data, studying the numbers collected from the sensors for days without sleeping. He suffered a major psychotic episode when asked to present his conclusions to the team, jumping up and down on the table shouting 'Me and Cloudy control you all!' Sheesh!"(original sighting)

Is there any truth to Boole's unbelievable statements? Did he catch some sort of Black Cloud Fever? Please post your observations to help clear this up!

Black Cloud on the Move!

After reviewing eyewitness reports from this week, The Daily Polluter has concluded that the Black Cloud has migrated North. A typical sighting reads;

"I work a crane in the Port of Oakland, and I seen some pretty funky things this

 week. I show up to work, the weather's fine. But soon as I start up that big ol' diesel engine it's like someone turned off the lights - I call it the devil smoke. I can't breathe so good and sometimes I see wild things what make me think I'm going nuts..."(original sighting)

The most intriguing news comes from a student;

"I live in a warehouse underneath "The Maze" - that huge highway interchange near the Bay Bridge? Last night when I got home I found this crazy blinky thingamajig in my kitchen!"

"'I don't remember putting that there,' I thought to myself and snapped a picture. Suddenly some psychotic intruder in a white labcoat jumped out of the dark, pushed me down, grabbed the thingy, and ran out, shouting 'PuffTron recovered!' I have no idea what he was talking about... What was it? Maybe some kind of remote control or mind-control beam or something." (original sighting)

The Daily Polluter wanted to know if the BID Lab was involved in this incident, but Greg Niemeyer declined to comment on the incident saying,

"The BID Lab will be creating a centralized network to analyze all the information we have collected on the Black Cloud. You will be notified when we make our results available to the public."(official site)

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Daily Polluter - a Community Forum about the Black Cloud

As you may have read in our about page the Daily Polluter is a response to the destruction of our environment and global climate change. We initiated this community forum in response to a strange atmospheric phenomenon that has been seen by many citizens of Northern California, yet ignored by the Main Stream Media. We intend to give YOU the chance to report your sightings of this mysterious Black Cloud so that we can come to understand it, determine whether it is dangerous, and figure out what to do about it.

The very first eyewitness reports of the Black Cloud occurred in May of 2008 when citizens of Silicon Valley started seeing a hazyblack figure in the sky. Unlike other clouds, the Black Cloud did not move with the wind. Even though sightings were widespread and well documented, local law enforcement and newspapers dismissed them as mass-hysteria, hallucinations, or bogus UFO stories.

True, some of the sightings were rather unbelievable. Claudia Nambit of San Jose was quoted as saying;

"It first appeared after my Escalade failed the Smog test. It was horrible - a thousand-eyed demon that chased me down the fast lane at 100 mph! When I got pulled over, the Police Officer thought I was like lying! But look at the picture I took!"(original sighting)

A far more trustworthy report comes from Yudai Kumozora of Redwood City;

"It was a beautiful day and I was in a traffic jam on 880 South when I spotted a huge dark cloud hovering over a cargo ship in the port about a quarter-mile to my right. I looked down to fiddle with my radio or something, and when I looked up half-a-second later the entire cloud was hovering over the highway above me! It blocked off so much light from the sun that I had to turn on my headlights... I don't know how it flew over so quickly - I don't think there was any wind. It sure was weird!"(original sighting)

Some research organizations did pursue the reports. Greg Niemeyer, a professor at UC Berkeley and member of the Berkeley Institute for Design (BID), which researches the intersection of emotion and technology, released this statement;

"I have initiated a project to investigate this phenomenon. I would be very surprised if any of these reports were true, but as a scientist, the only things that kill you are the ones you don't believe in. We must always keep an open mind."(official site)

Despite Daily Polluter requests for more information, Niemeyer could not be convinced to send any results for the study, claiming that the "data was inconclusive." We urge you to keep your eyes on the skies and send us a report about anything unusual you have seen!