{No hate here}

Winter Smog is new - this is the very first time in Toronto a smog alert has been issued in February, one of the few in winter ever issued.
And in Chicago : "Soot pollution trapped over much of the urban Midwest led Illinois officials Wednesday to issue their first-ever wintertime alert for dirty air, and they cautioned the health warnings could last through the weekend." [Tribune]


Warmer air , stagnant wind conditions, inversion [warm air on top of cooler ground level air], and the increase in particulates due to winter habits are named as the reasons for the worsening air conditions in winter.

Climate change means more warm days in winter. Cold air may allow particulates to settle out much easier.

The problem is , as we know, "cars, diesel trucks, factories, residential fireplaces and power plants that burn coal or other fossil fuels". They are spewing the dangerous particulates and other smog forming chemicals, as well as adding to global warming [whatever is warming up the earth's air temperature, fossil fuels are making it worse, in case you are a denier of GW].

Toronto -

Switzerland -

Chicago -

- links - all of them cites around the world that are having these new problems with winter smog This from a simple search on google, so we can assume it is going on everywhere in the Northern hemisphere.

Here is a link to find your air quality [Canada] -


"Experts warn that the high concentrations of fine particles in the air pose a serious health hazard."

"Traffic, in particular diesel-powered vehicles, is the main polluter according to a study conducted in Austria, France and Switzerland in 1999."

Our health takes a beating with particulates. Cancers, asthma, all sorts of neurological illnesses and immune system deficiences result from breathing in this 'fossil fuel flavored' air.

Diesel vehicles just do not have a place in this world anymore. The resistance to changing over to alternatives comes from the Conspiracy of oilmen, government, and even medical industry. [CTP,OTS]-see bottom]

Trucks especially are such good candidates for alternative fuels, because they can carry the weight of the first line of alternatives, which will get lighter after development and practical use. Batteries for solar, and hydrogen tanks or natural gas tanks which are heavy, are some of the hurdels of passenger cars that trucks do not have.

We should demand that transport trucks get green, and ban all passeneger diesel unless it is bio-diesel.

This would save much more in health costs that it will cost to change over. But in a non-socialist nation, these efficiencies can never be taken advantage of. It makes more money on both sides - medical spending goes up; oil and trucking and even carmakers industry profits are better when burning the worst of fuels, because they are cheaper, because they can keep making the same engines [no re-tooling], and they all protect each other's industry because they are all cross invested.

Karlin


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PS - OZONE is often mentioned as an AIR POLLUTANT. This is a misdirection and an incomplete understanding results from the way it is used to measure air pollution.

Ozone is actually good for the air quality. "O3" [oh-3] gives us more oxzygen, which is good considering oxygen levels have dropped from over 30% historically to 22% now.
When sunshine hits toxic air, ozone is formed. The ozone then 'neutralises' the toxins and better quality air for breathing is left.

Some asthmatics find high ozone levels irritating.Thats because ozone is cleaning up their bronchial tubes, producing phlegm that must be coughed up. That is irritating , but they should be grateful for the healing that is taking place. Let me know[reply] if your experience is different than this. Pharmaceuticals will interfere with this healing process as they reduce the ability to cough it up or something like that, so ozone is labelled as bad: "thats why your asthma is bad today - ozone" [medical industry says this].

Ozone and other oxygen therapies could HEAL lots of conditions, but as a naturally occuring element, O2 cannot have a patent, so is discarded as a medical therapy. "Sure, Oxygen therapy is very useful, but we need a healthy pharmaceutical industry so the programs your hospitals depend on can be paid for.. or for jobs and the taxes they pay, or or or..." [Bullsplat from the medical industry]

So don't name OZONE as a pollutant, IT IS AN ANTI-POLLUTANT. Fossil fuels are the only culprit in air pollution, other than wood burning. Alternatives are available but restricted.

HO!!!

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