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In Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything, he mentions the origin of
the phrase above. It dates back to the 1800s I believe. Is there actually a
picture of the famous cloud dating from the 1896 International Cloud Atlas?
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
"Humans aren't the first species to alter the atmosphere; that
distinction belongs to early bacteria, which some two billion
years ago, invented photosynthesis.
-- Field Notes from a Catastrophe, E. Kolbert
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