"DSK" wrote in message
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... hundreds of years ago, before we had automobiles & smokestack
factories & fossil fueled power plants that clean up the atmosphere,
planet Earth was so polluted from all the trees that it could barely
support life.



Jeff Rigby wrote:
That's why the Great smoky mountains were called smoky by the Indians
200+
years ago.


Note the difference between "smoke" and "fog."

It's not quite as difficult as the difference between "diplomacy" and
"coercion."

DSK

No, I'm told by a Forest ranger that it was smoke. Certain times of the
year you do get fog but there were fires that slowly burned (natural,
promoted by the pine trees for their germination) that caused SMOKE for
months. It's a combination of wind currents that keep the smoke in that
area (trapped).