By P Gosselin on 19. April 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterCars are not as dirty as claimed. Once again we find in Germany another article reporting how pollution from diesel cars has been massively over-hyped. Despite a massive reduction in car traffic due to the COVID-19 lock down, nitrogen oxide levels still remain high, reports German weekly FOCUS here. The air is no cleaner […]
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By P Gosselin on 14. April 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterRoland Tichy’s site here reports that although car traffic in the German city of Stuttgart has decreased significantly due to COVID-19, the drop in NO2 content has only been “slight”. So it cannot be the evil diesel engine cars that are “choking” our cities. Image: NASA here (public domain) “The Corona crisis is bringing […]
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By P Gosselin on 11. April 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Corona crisis has reduced car traffic, yet air quality has not improved. This suggests that the automobile’s role in air pollution has been vastly exaggerated. Image: NASA (public domain) There are fewer cars on the road in major German cities due cities to the massive COVID-19 restrictions and “green zones”, “and yet it apparently does […]
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By P Gosselin on 21. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterWidespread frost to grip Europe The past winter has been an unusually mild one for most of Europe, which has led many people to think spring was here to stay. But the weather pattern has since switched. Instead of westerly winds bringing mild temperatures and rains across Europe, as they did all winter long, […]
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By P Gosselin on 3. March 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterBy Kirye and Pierre Gosselin We know people die prematurely of air pollution and it is a major issue, especially in developing countries. But it is essential to understand the difference between air pollution and CO2 emissions. CO2 is essential to all forms of life and it is difficult for many people to believe […]
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By P Gosselin on 7. January 2020
Share this…FacebookTwitterA number of countries have even made wood-burning a part of their drive to cut down on CO2 emissions. For example cities like Munich, Germany are seeing a rise in wood burning as a source of heat. Moreover, many German cities are moving to ban diesel engine cars because of the CO2 they produce […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 8. July 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterA new paper finds the performance of test-taking (cognitive, decision-making) “astronaut-like” subjects exposed to 5000 ppm CO2 was “similar to or exceeded” the performance of those exposed to baseline (600 ppm). This study follows up on a 2018 paper that determined submariners exposed to 15000 ppm CO2 performed just as well as subjects exposed […]
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By Kenneth Richard on 22. April 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterThe Earth has been rapidly greening in recent decades, and CO2 fertilization may explain 70% of the trend (Zhu et al., 2016). A new study finds models have significantly underestimated the greening effect of rising CO2. Image Source: Winkler et al., 2019 CO2 is a pollutant? In recent years, carbon dioxide (CO2), an essential […]
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By P Gosselin on 27. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitterLeipzig, 20 December 2018 Researchers from Leipzig cooperate with scientists from Punta Arenas (Chile) to learn more about the relationship between air pollution, clouds and precipitation. Leipzig/Punta Arenas. How do airborne particles, so-called aerosols, affect the formation and life cycle of clouds and precipitation? In order to come one step closer to solving this […]
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By P Gosselin on 1. January 2019
Share this…FacebookTwitter By Kirye in Tokyo Hachijojima is a rural-type island off the coast from the megapolis of Tokyo in the Pacific. What makes Hachijojima interesting is that it is ideal for comparing its trend to a heavily urban environment, like Tokyo’s. Hachijojima is located roughly 300 km, out to sea, from Tokyo and thus […]
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By P Gosselin on 24. October 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterWhile German activists are growing hysterical over fine particle emissions from today’s relatively cleaner diesel automobiles, the German Allgemeine Zeitung here reports that researchers have determined that low-frequency infrasound from wind turbines indeed do have a negative impact on the human heart. Infrasound from wind turbines can affect heart health, new findings show. Image: DrJanaOfficial […]
Posted in Alternative Energy, Emissions, Pollution, Wind Power |
By P Gosselin on 30. September 2018
Share this…FacebookTwitterWe have to face it: The West has done our planet no favor by moving industrial production and manufacturing to China. Trump is right, many of factories and industries are better back home, even if it means paying a bit more for products. Not only does the China use the oceans as a global dump […]
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