[jrushing]

Trees, Trees produce the pollution. Trees!

[clee1]

I can just see the eco-nuts rush out to advocate clear-cutting old-growth forests.

[Texas Eagle]

Ronald Reagan was right!

[GSlob]

Wasn't it discovered some 20 yrs ago by Ronald the Great's Interior Secretary Watts? What these princetonians are doing now is not a science proper, but a humdrum repetition in an attempt to catch up.

[taxesareforever]

Two major sources of smog-producing chemicals are automobile tailpipes and natural emissions from tree leaves.

I always knew it was a good idea to log. Gentlemen, start your engines.

[Restorer]

There is a definite contradiction in this article.

They do not define "pollution." Naturally released chemicals do not logically fall under such a heading.

[_Jim]

   Trees, Trees produce the pollution. Trees!

Looks out across the 'landscape' of our city, Dallas for instance, and witness the abundance of ... TREES!

Trees that only exist b/c of the extensive watering system (every house and homeowner PLUS commercial watering system) for as far as the eye can see from any 20 story building!

Didn't use to be that way "pre-man" ...

[JSteff]

"While clean-air laws have reduced the level of man-made VOCs (volatile organic compounds), the tree-produced varieties have increased dramatically in some parts of the country, the study found."

Didn't Reagan get mocked by the press for saying this very thing? Hmm?

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[farmfriend]

these improvements may have been outweighed by increased VOC emissions from forests, mainly because of tree growth in abandoned farmland and increases in plantation forestry.

We need Natural Process now!

[SierraWasp]

The GANG-GREEN EnvironMentalistas won't be happy till the air and water are STERILE!!! Pee on 'em!!!

[El Gato]

Trees, Trees produce the pollution. Trees!

Ron Reagan knew that, and the stupid liberal eco-freaks pilloried him for it. Once more Reagan is proved correct and his enemies proved wrong. Reagan rocks!

[Iscool]

I don't know much about this stuff...I do remember for years that the big problem was the ozone (up there around or in the atmosphere) and the growing hole in it...The sun's radiation shooting thru the ever increasing hole and the danger to our life and weather patterns...

We were running out of ozone...We were doomed...The smog was eating away at the ozone...

Lo and behold,
"The study examined a class of chemicals that are emitted as unburned fuel from automobile tailpipes and as vapors from industrial chemicals, but also which come naturally from tree leaves. These chemicals, known collectively as VOCs, react with other pollutants to form ozone, a bluish, irritating and pungent gas that is a major form of smog in the lower atmosphere."

Seems as tho the scientists have unwittingly found the solution to the problem...We're growing our own ozone...To plug that vast gaping hole???

What struck me in the article was the constant uses of the words, "may, could, possible, puzzle, etc....