Friday, April 01, 2005

Hair report take 4

I've blogged on stem cells from hair, about mustache contests, and about the best (?) hair transplant job among European leaders.

Now comes this horrible report:

DANDRUFF CAUSES AIR POLLUTION.....

He estimated that the amount of biological particles in the air, worldwide, annually is 1,000 teragrams. A teragram is somewhat more than a million tons.

By comparison, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, established by the World Meteorological Organization and the U.N. Environmental Program, estimated biological particles at 56 teragrams, compared with 3,300 teragrams of sea salt and 2,000 teragrams of mineral dust.

The new finding means researchers should take biological materials seriously in climate modeling, in cloud physics and in hygienic questions such as allergies, Jaenicke said.

"Don't regard that as a minor contribution," he said.

The implications for the global climate are unclear, said Murray V. Johnston, a chemistry professor at the University of Delaware.


So dandruff causes global warming...
I wonder if the Kyoto treaty insists that we all use Head and Shoulders?

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