Posted on 04/20/2016 2:01:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Millions of Californians live in places with dirty air, according to an annual report card issued Wednesday that ranks two major urban areas in the state as the nation’s most polluted.
Bakersfield tops the list for having the most unhealthy days from airborne particles spewed by highway traffic, diesel trucks, farm equipment and fireplaces, the American Lung Association’s State of the Air 2016 report says. Los Angeles remains the nation’s leader in harmful ozone pollution from car tailpipes emitting smog, the report says.
Air pollution can trigger asthma attacks, heart attacks, lead to lung cancer and cause premature death. […]
Eight out of 10 Californians — 32 million people — live in counties with unhealthy levels of ozone or particle pollution some time during the year, says the report, using U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data for three years ending in 2014. …
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And yet they have the strictest laws for air quality.
So long as they continue to define that as “carbon ‘pollution’”, they’ll be spinning their wheels, so to speak.
In La La Liberal land? That can’t be. Surely you jest.
There’s not a single mention of the major source.
China
I have a simple solution - everyone with half a brain should evacuate the state. I did in 1979 and never looked back (that whole pillar of salt thing...).
I went to LA once. It was like being in a foreign country. Couldn’t wait to get home.
Bakersfield tops the list for having the most unhealthy days from airborne particles spewed by highway traffic, diesel trucks, farm equipment and fireplaces, the American Lung Association’s State of the Air 2016 report says
The California Central Valley (look on a map) is flat and for the most part bare land. Nature picking up dirt and moving it elsewhere would be the most likely cause of any airborne particles.
Another study to provide the legislature a reason to restrict the freedoms of the citizens of California (they want to do away with fireplaces, and it appears farms).
The air is much cleaner in California and with 15 million more people than 40 years ago. Football practice was getting cut short or canceled all the time for smog alearts back in the late 70’s. You could cut it with a knife. I rarely ever see days like that now.
As the article points out, its a geography problem. Basins and valleys accumulate pollutants because the wind doesn't disperse them..
Sometimes, pollutants are transported from one place to another. With fine detection equipment the ozone from China can be detected in California, although it is very small. Or the ozone from San Francisco significantly affects the central valley. Or the mercury emissions in Georgia are definitely affecting NC.
We have "cross state" pollution regs to prevent one state from polluting another
YAY!!
Let’s us now bring in EVEN MORE MILLIONS of third-world ILLITERATES!!!
That’ll fix it.
You don’t know the half of it :((
www.aircrap.org
All those people with jobs that drive to and from work everyday, and those nasty farmers with their farm equipment have got to go, then CA will have nice clean air for all the Berners who won’t need to work to traipse around in while they are finding themselves and learning how to love their fellow man and do finger painting or whatever art to enhance the human experience.
A large portion of Bakersfield’s dirty air is pushed down the valley from NorCal. There are mountains on the southern end of the valley between Kern County and LA that stop the dirty air from leaving. Think of a 3 sided bowl. That’s the Central Valley with Bakersfield at the Southern end.
Once the air gets pushed down it doesn’t have anywhere else to go.
Wrong. California does not have the dirtiest air. It has the dirtiest smog traps. Texas has large cities but no air quality problems even though they use coal in their city power plants. Why? Because Texas is a Plains State and California is a Basin State with valleys and inversion layers that trap smog. The solution to pollution is dilution. But California policy (Assembly Bill 375) diverts population growth into the smog traps instead of away from the smog traps on the phony basis that this cuts down on auto commuting. By the way asthma and lung cancer rates are about the same in Texas and California so the argument that reducing air pollution is a health benefit is dubious. Smog is an irritant and should be reduced but reducing it doesn’t improve disease rates.
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Even the ‘dirtiest’ air in California is too ‘clean’ to be healthy.
Most of our air is far too low in turpenes, thus making life difficult for most asthmatics, who need the turps in the air.
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Given topography, uncontrolled forest fires and volcanic activity in California...
Any panic today is the chicken little utter ignorance effect...
Bunk, we have filters on everything but our butts.
If we are high I would suggest the source being China’s unfiltered pollution coasting over at some level and mixing with ours.
We can’t filter China from here.
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