We are Connected - It's Blowing in the Wind

Some doubt how connected we are and how regional or local events can have an impact half way around the globe. Here's a photo of dust from North Africa wending or rather winding up over Great Britain. So if 20,000 Libyans or Tunisians sneeze at the same time: France, Belgium, Nhe Netherlands, England and Sweden can catch cold? If half the trees in the Amazon or the Congo are cut down - there is less humidity rising up in the air and the shifting of the winds and rains back and forth - north and south is changed.

clipped from earthobservatory.nasa.gov Mixed with white streaks of clouds, a huge plume of African dust is blowing over the United Kingdom (left) in this Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Terra satellite on April 15, 2003. In the waters of the North Sea between the UK and Denmark (to the east), the water is swirling with color that could indicate a mixture of sediment and marine plant life.