March 28, 2008--Sediment study hits home (Durango Telegraph)
The study of airborne particulates is becoming one of the hottest areas of climate change, according to Joe McConnell, a scientist at the Desert Research Institute in Reno. Scientists, he says, are still assessing how much climate change can be attributed to anthropogenic, or manmade causes, and how much to natural climate change. Neff’s work also complements that of Tom Painter, a scientist now based in Salt Lake City who released a report last summer showing dust from the Southwest is causing snowmelt runoff in the San Juans to begin eight to 32 days earlier.
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