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05/16/2008: "Researchers warn of nitrogen hazard to environment"

While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists warn.

While nitrogen alone is inert and harmless, reactive nitrogen compounds - such as ammonia - have been released by its use in nitrogen-based fertilizers and the large-scale burning of fossil fuels.

Various forms of nitrogen contribute to greenhouse warming, smog, haze, acid rain dead zones with little or no life along the coasts, and depletion of the ozone layer in the stratosphere, the researchers concluded.

[ These are all corporate "externalities". Hitler knew this would happen when he said that if the Germans lose the war, it will cause the end of life on Earth. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/ap_on_sc/nitrogen