O Beautiful For Spacious Skies?
Panamint Dunes from South Pass, covered on page 139 of my Photographing California guidebook.
www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/photographing-califo...
Dust chokes Death Valley National Park's Panamint Basin just before sunset.
Increasingly as I explore some of America's most pristine landscapes, I'm confronted by view-killing, lung-clogging dust and smog. I had heard a year or two ago that California's air pollution can get a boost by up to 50% from overseas, but it seems to be particularly bad lately, so I went looking for an update on the subject.
Here's what I found:
"if you go to the Western national parks during the springtime, you're very likely to have your visibility decreased by Asian dust..."
"Human health suffers when dust plumes drift into town. Clouds of dust or smoke contain microscopic particles that, when inhaled, penetrate deep into the lungs. Studies in publications such as The New England Journal of Medicine have found that cities with chronically high levels of particles have higher death rates, mostly from heart and lung disease. And emergency-room visits and death rates rise in the days following a spike in particle pollution."
“Los Angeles may get as much as 50 parts per billion of its ozone from overseas…. A 'Code Orange' alert warning… is issued when ozone levels average 80 parts per billion.”
"The EPA's Bachmann says the base-line ozone content of the world's air has at least doubled since the Industrial Revolution. That means base-line ozone alone gets U.S. air uncomfortably close to being unhealthy."
"Asian pollution, scientists say, has the potential to help negate the United States' work to clean up its air."
saveearth-savehumanity.blogspot.com/2010/11/air-pollution...
Interesting reading on current affairs related to air pollution:
Legislative Watch February 28, 2011 - act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7262&id=17506-3119177-mBY.VX...
Hooray, we get more mercury and soot, courtesy of the House of Representatives. Thank you Congress! Are you enjoying the "campaign contribution" bribes which bought those votes? Scumbags.
The 1990 Clean Air Act Will Save 4.2 Million Lives by 2020 - act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7264&id=17506-3119177-mBY.VX...
O Beautiful For Spacious Skies?
Panamint Dunes from South Pass, covered on page 139 of my Photographing California guidebook.
www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/photographing-califo...
Dust chokes Death Valley National Park's Panamint Basin just before sunset.
Increasingly as I explore some of America's most pristine landscapes, I'm confronted by view-killing, lung-clogging dust and smog. I had heard a year or two ago that California's air pollution can get a boost by up to 50% from overseas, but it seems to be particularly bad lately, so I went looking for an update on the subject.
Here's what I found:
"if you go to the Western national parks during the springtime, you're very likely to have your visibility decreased by Asian dust..."
"Human health suffers when dust plumes drift into town. Clouds of dust or smoke contain microscopic particles that, when inhaled, penetrate deep into the lungs. Studies in publications such as The New England Journal of Medicine have found that cities with chronically high levels of particles have higher death rates, mostly from heart and lung disease. And emergency-room visits and death rates rise in the days following a spike in particle pollution."
“Los Angeles may get as much as 50 parts per billion of its ozone from overseas…. A 'Code Orange' alert warning… is issued when ozone levels average 80 parts per billion.”
"The EPA's Bachmann says the base-line ozone content of the world's air has at least doubled since the Industrial Revolution. That means base-line ozone alone gets U.S. air uncomfortably close to being unhealthy."
"Asian pollution, scientists say, has the potential to help negate the United States' work to clean up its air."
saveearth-savehumanity.blogspot.com/2010/11/air-pollution...
Interesting reading on current affairs related to air pollution:
Legislative Watch February 28, 2011 - act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7262&id=17506-3119177-mBY.VX...
Hooray, we get more mercury and soot, courtesy of the House of Representatives. Thank you Congress! Are you enjoying the "campaign contribution" bribes which bought those votes? Scumbags.
The 1990 Clean Air Act Will Save 4.2 Million Lives by 2020 - act.credoaction.com/r/?r=7264&id=17506-3119177-mBY.VX...