Posted on 08/05/2024 7:15:22 PM PDT by Libloather
We’re barking up the wrong trees.
A new study reveals that a majority of the 7 million trees in New York City are emitting “volatile compounds” that do more harm than good for our air quality — especially during scorching heat.
“We’re all for planting more trees. They bring so many good things,” said study coauthor Róisín Commane, an atmospheric chemist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. “But if we’re not careful, we could make air quality worse.”
The arbors in question include oaks and sweetgums which produce high volumes of a chemical composition called isoprenes — and they’re rooted in the Big Apple more than any other species.
“There is no reason to think that trees don’t play a role in what’s in the air,” said lead author Dandan Wei, of the local Columbia Climate School. “We just didn’t have the tools before this to understand this particular aspect.”
When that compound interacts with nitrogen oxide pollution, which is emitted from cars and building exhaust, the result is a key driver for respiratory illnesses.
Asthma and chronic bronchitis were listed as the most vulnerable conditions, according to the new report in Environmental Science & Technology.
And, if NYC continues its usual planting of those style trees, isoprene levels in Manhattan will surge about 140% with a 30% boost in ozone.
In the more lush borough of Queens, both isoprene and ozone are expected to quadruple, researchers note.
Oak trees, which already let out 800 times more isoprene than maples, emit in especially high volume when the city reaches boiling temperatures in the high 90s as well. They make up 37% of city trees while the sweetgums consist of 17%.
After analyzing satellite imagery that combined with Parks Department data, the research team found that local trees played a role...
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But needed for fire. Fuel, heat, oxygen.
Exactly what I posted!
I'll just let you CONTINUE to be a PROUD TEXAN full of meaningless DOUBLE TALK who purports to always "BE RIGHT" and who supposedly KNOWS more than EVERYONE else. Rock on Holmes!
GOD BLESS YOUR POINTED LITTLE HEAD!
“Exactly what I posted!
You: I’ll just let you CONTINUE to be a PROUD TEXAN full of meaningless DOUBLE TALK who purports to always “BE RIGHT” and who supposedly KNOWS more than EVERYONE else.
Double talk? One knows who has no factual argument. The one that forsakes the truth and resorts to baseless personal attack.
BTW. I am not a Texan. I notice you fly no flag.
“But needed for fire. Fuel, heat, oxygen.”
I learned that in cub scouts 70 years ago.
Is there any subject you’re not an expert on?
I’ll bet you’re great fun at parties.
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“I’ll imagine that you’re happily married.. you and your wife have a normal relationship... then, she meets a NEW female friend, who eventually, through various circumstances, drags your wife into a (God forbid) LESBIAN relationship.
My question?... would not the NEW female friend unexpectedly have become the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE neither, of which, YOU or your WIFE had ever expected to occur?”
No. Every action the new female takes during and after the first meeting is predicated by the wife’s and husband’s actions.
“who eventually, through various circumstances, “
Exactly! Through various actions. It takes two to tangle.
“Is there any subject you’re not an expert on?”
I am pretty good at recognizing trolls!
Not really.
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“That is analogous to MAN, after 4 BILLION years, being introduced to a PLANET endowed with a SELF-SUSTAINING SYSTEM.”
Man was not “introduced”. Man is as a variable was produced by the environment.
Interesting! That self-substaining system killed off the large predators leaving small mammals that evolved to man.
We would not be where we are today if nature had not influenced Newton with an apple on his head.
“Let me give you a SIMPLE example of WHAT I mean.”
Let me give you a SIMPLE example of WHAT I mean.
The Olympics tried to make man an independent variable. They set the independent variable: Man to swim, bike run 1.5 km, 40 km, and 10 km.
Nature feedback showed that Man was not an independent variable when several got sick from e.coli.
Grow up. If you want to discuss my posts, fine. But your childish trolling is a sign of sickness.
“I’ll bet you’re great fun at parties.”
Yep. We stay up all hours debating whether Pakistani rockets have automatic, manual or dual clutch transmissions.
I went with automatic but at the end it was unresolved. Another went with dual clutch since they shift without human intervention. Another said they installed used manual transmissions outfitted with shifting mechanism actuated either by remote control or computer program. That idea didn’t get much air time.
“Is there any subject you’re not an expert on?”
My post was a quote from the article. No comment from me on the quote.
Your snide remark about my expertise totally indicates trolling.
If you want to challenge my posts please quote me and state your concerns.
But since that was not possible, I only quoted the article, you trolled with a snide remark.
“If you want to discuss my posts, fine.”
Oh, but I am.
And in case I haven’t been clear about it I find most of them to be needlessly churlish, your treatment of Freepers to be boorish, and you seem to display this unhealthy need to always appear to be the smartest guy on the thread. Perhaps it’s some deep seated insecurity manifesting itself.
It’s tiresome. It’s rude. And it’s extremely annoying to see you look down your nose at Freepers.
Dialing it back a bit would be appreciated. But I doubt your capable of it.
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Providing oxygen is a bad thing. Every scientist knows that.
Nature bad.
Let me amend that last comment: Nature, which God created, is bad in the eyes of the far left.
“And in case I haven’t been clear about it I find most of them to be needlessly churlish, your treatment of Freepers to be boorish, and you seem to display this unhealthy need to always appear to be the smartest guy on the thread. Perhaps it’s some deep seated insecurity manifesting itself.”
In your last troll I merely quoted a line in the OP. That in no way displays any need to display any “smarts”
You have been trolling me with snide remarks for some time.
As I said before, if you have any problem with any post please respond with a quote so I can understand from where you are coming and state your concern.
I can’t remember why you started trolling me. There must be some issue we had.
Me: “If you want to discuss my posts, fine.”
You: Oh, but I am.
Posting a snide remark totally unrelated to the contents of my post is not a discussion ...
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