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."