User:Guelfna

I find it odd to seemingly find what appears to be a goof or an oddity on this first attempt to add a morsal of information to such a wellknown service as Wikipedia. The fact is that in articles about adding to, or editing an article published by Wikipedia seems to be completely ignored. I came to Wikipedia to read basically anything about Fog and Mist. All of the articles were without any history or revelence to whence came the knowledge posited. No dates or other facits of proof appeared to be anywhere in sight, so I will write hopefully with clarity, an exception to what I found. My records of observance, are recorded in my mind from what I was taught, and when and where. As data can not be found to what I want to know, I again want to know, when the history of the difference of Fog and Mist, as written in the articles at one's disposal, was actually setup. This is important as I think what I learned and was taught is of valid differences, almost the opposite of what I read on Wikipedia. A plethora of the articles on Wikipedia start with, a note about the difference in visibilty if you are riding a bicycle, driving an automobile, or if you are the Pilot of a so called airliner. Where from, and when did this become the main idea taught to prognosticators of weather who blanket the news channels on television, and on radio? The information usually adds the temperatures of Fog and Mist formation, and I do not argue against or for this additive. I assume it is correct, but it does not add any more information such as, 'Since the year Blah blah blah, when this information became common, it has been used as data for use worldwide.'Blah,blah blah. Has Wikipedia verified, then hidden the data to cut down on the number of repeated words in so many articles? To me, and I assume to many readers, the missing data is of import. My questioning and asking, is not critical, it is the seeking of information. My observed and learned data comes from the years 1930, and almost through 1940. It has not changed much since then. It was my growing up period from a child to an adult. It took place om the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea. The Island's basic measurements are, greatest width, about 12 miles. Greatest length, about 31 miles in 1930, now measured at close to 32.5 in 2009. The highest point is Snaefell Mountain, at about 2035 Feet. Native born inhabitants nationality is, Manx. Native population in the 1930s about 32,000 to 35,000. Figures not confirmed. A large part of the male population went to sea as fishermen, (Every day) and a lot served in merchant fleets as able seamen and above. During school hours I was taught by capable teachers, that Mist is basically what we use today, minus the new supposedly correct figures from laborities. Fog, was what we never really saw. I think I first saw Fog as defined in 1947, when I went to live for 4.5 years in Liverpool, England. The definition of Fog to school children, or at least to curious males was, Mist, plus chemicals from factories, with a larger proportion of sulphuric acid from coal burning. I was taught of rank aromas, and the stinging of the eyes. I was taught it was yellow, and so were all school children. I did see a small pine forest, or evergreen forest of unknown trees, killed from being downwind from a generating plant, which burnt crushed coal, called slack. That generating plant today, burns either so called natural gas, or gas captured from Oil Fields. The definition of fog, that I was taught in school as a child, was the same definition of Fog, throughout Britain, or so it seemed. I became a stone carver in England after a tenure and graduation from Art School on the Island. I like many others, could see the effects that Sulphuric Acid in rain could do to stone surfaces, on stone of many varieties. Radios and newspapers mentioned health alerts on days when thick Fog was expected or had arrived. The last question becomes, 'When did the definition of Fog get changed?' We have more people on the planet today, and the burning of coal and coke and fuel oils, and of gasoline etc., is much higher today, than the 1940s. I am beginning to assume it has been changed by politicians. Especially where Governments own and control Generating Stations. This happens with small towns and small city governments to National Governments. I have spent many years hiking in forests and on mountains in four countries where I have lived. I see Mist in the mountains, and on the oceans, and in the cities, yet it is called, snow fog, or light fog, or heavy fog. I think these terms have been foisted on the public who are not observant or could not care less. It is about time the truth was reinserted. Stinky sulphuric acid laden fog in the city is not the fog of the moutains or seen on the oceans many miles from land, unless it is windswept to a maritime location. Smog is similar to Fog, and not to Mist. It has coloration and stinks and burns the eyes. I know this because I lived in and around the Los Angles basin for over four years. Lets get to it, more people suffer with breathing diseases, than ever before. It's about time the truth was told. Mist and Fog are not similar except in the words of those who participate in the creation of Fog.