From the UNIVERSITY OF UTAH and the “other factors besides CO2” department. In 1870, explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, trekking across the barren and remote ice cap of Greenland, saw something most…
Category: Air pollution
Does Air Pollution Really Shorten Life Spans?
Guest essay by Dr. Indur M. Goklany Periodically we are flooded with reports of air pollution episodes in various developing countries, and claims of their staggering death toll, and consequent reductions…
Dirty bird carcasses tell the story of how air pollution has improved in the last 100 years
What soot-covered, hundred-year-old birds can tell us about saving the environment Museum collections track soot in the atmosphere throughout the 20th century From the FIELD MUSEUM Horned Larks are cute…
EXCLUSIVE: Researcher Claims To Have Evidence One Of EPA’s Most Successful Clean Air Rules Is Based On Fabricated Data
Energy From The Daily Caller Michael Bastasch 9:06 PM 08/07/2017 One of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) longest and most successful air pollution standards is based on a taxpayer-funded study…
New hi-tech gadget promises power from polluted air
From the “Chinese are already working on a copy” department: Researchers from the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven (University of Leuven), Belgium, have succeeded in developing a process that…
California Auto Emissions Showdown
Guest essay by Eric Worrall California has geared up to defy President Trump’s efforts to dismantle ridiculously strict auto-emission standards. But there may be a way President Donald Trump can…
Asian pollution, heat waves worsen US smog, Princeton-NOAA study shows
From PRINCETON UNIVERSITY and the “excessive EPA regulations caused massive exports of US industry to Asia and all I got was this lousy smog” department. PRINCETON, N.J. — An influx of…
Hump Day Hilarity – actual study: 'diesel trains may expose passengers to diesel exhaust'
From the “I can’t believe we needed a study to determine this” and Hansen’s Death Trains department, the actual unedited press release is below, commentary follows. Diesel trains may expose…
China and India reach a 'pack a day' cigarette equivalent in air pollution
From the “EPA helped export the problem overseas” department, comes this press release from Berkeley Earth: Horrific Air Pollution in Europe Reaches 7 cigarettes per day equivalent, a pack a…
Study: Poor air quality kills 5.5 million worldwide annually
From the “US and European manufacturing was exported to China and India department” and the UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA: New research shows that more than 5.5 million people die prematurely every…
#AGU15 New NASA satellite maps show humans have less of a fingerprint on global air quality compared to 10 years ago
From the NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER Using new, high-resolution global satellite maps of air quality indicators, NASA scientists tracked air pollution trends over the last decade in various regions and 195…
What could be worse than Artificial Trees?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A while ago WUWT wrote about the inexplicable green fascination with technological monstrosities, such as artificial trees, to replace real trees. And of course we…
New Ozone Regulations Will Save Lots of Imaginary People
Guest essay by Charles Battig Now I can finally relax, take a deep breath, and breathe easier. The Environmental Protection Agency, an aggressive arm of the nanny government, has just…
Claim: Global warming improves urban air quality
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t DailyCaller – a new study published in the MDPI Atmosphere Journal has concluded that global warming is responsible for improving air quality in Houston,…
Claim: Lowering coal-fired power plant emissions may have saved 1,700 lives in 1 year
From the American Chemical Society, some uncertainty, but good enough for a press release. Of course if they could show us an absence of death certificates that say “died from…
Wow, we never saw this coming: 'Trash burning worldwide significantly worsens air pollution'
BOULDER — Unregulated trash burning around the globe is pumping far more pollution into the atmosphere than shown by official records. A new study led by the National Center for…
Novel idea: Cleaning the Air with Roof Tiles
Recently WUWT carried a story about “solar roads” which had a ridiculous premise with a big batch of “feel good” Eco-egineering that is technically and economically implausible. This idea for…
Then, they came for the airplanes…
From the American Chemical Society: Heavy airplane traffic potentially a major contributor to pollution in Los Angeles Congested freeways crawling with cars and trucks are notorious for causing smog in…
Oops! 'Dieselification' of London due to CO2 regulations have increased actual air pollution
London’s Dirty Secret: Pollution Worse Than Beijing’s Reader Drew H. submits this story. It’s the law of unintended consequences at work. European Union efforts to fight climate change favored diesel…
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