Strange that this happens in far left cities
Cities’ Air Problems Only Get Worse With Climate Change
The threats from climate change are many: extreme weather, shrinking snowpack, altered ecosystems and rising and more acidic seas, to name a few. Another lesser-known issue may hit especially close to home for city dwellers. In the world’s already smoggy metropolises, pollution is likely to grow worse, a phenomenon scientists have taken to calling the climate penalty.
Ozone is a key culprit. This lung-damaging compound, often formed from chemical reactions involving sunlight and automobile exhaust and other pollution, plagues major cities around the globe. As the climate heats up, it is projected that more ozone will form in polluted areas on sweltering days.
“You have a hot summer, you’re going to get a lot of ozone,†said Daniel Jacob, a professor of atmospheric chemistry and environmental engineering at Harvard.
Wait, it gets hot in the summer? When did that happen?
Anyhow, there is a simple solution for these polluted liberal bastions: give up your fossil fueled vehicles, replace your airports with solar and wind farms, stop using AC and refrigerators, turn parking lots into farms, and end manufacturing in your cities. And so much more.
But with the threat of a climate penalty looming, of course, added impetus is on the world’s nations to reduce their emissions of air pollutants from factories and motor vehicles.
See? I told you so.
Went to the science web site and they actually admitted that we have cooled over the last 16 years. Reasons were given but not the fact that they were dead wrong to begin with. But I agree, we don’t know how living without fossil fuels with effect us so we need an experiment. We need to call on all believers to willingly give up any and all fossil fuel products, including plastics, so we can learn from them.
david,
What science web site did you go to?
The lack of warming over the past 18 years is pretty well accepted everywhere now. Scientists are running around in circles trying to explain it, and coming up with all sorts of wild explanations. Funny how they don’t even consider the obvious possibility – the models are wrong.
Unfortunately, there’s been so much focus on CO2, that pollution has been pushed into low priority.
TJ,
Few scientists accept that there’s been a lack of warming for the past 18 years. Most right wing bloggers and their loyal readers accept that there is no warming.
I think most scientists accept the lack of recent warming.It’s hard to ignore hard data. Hadcrut and GISS adjusted their data to try to boost recent warming, but it wasn’t enough to get around the real figures. It’s more the bloggers, politicians and media. Of course, there are scientists whose jobs and research depend on continuing AGW, so they won’t give in easily.
jeff,
The site is science daily, normally a pro-AGW area. I was really surprised to see a more truthful observation. And you are wrong on your assumptions, yet again, and again and again.