Discourse for all interested in all things air-quality related
Is attacking dirty air from the grassroots level best or cleaning it using the top-down approach? The answer to this question is what we are right here, right now in search of. Each year once per year, representatives from hundreds of nations gather, the purpose of which is to come to agreement regarding identified climate … Read more
When it comes to cargo delivery, the name of the game is coordinated logistics. In America, the end of the year for most is a very busy time. You’ve seen the broadcast television-news images of the holiday travel madness. Car- and truck-overwhelmed freeways and long airport lines. Such scenes leave indelible images imprinted in the … Read more
These days, weather is but one of a group of issues foremost on people’s minds. On the other hand, air quality, as another issue, well, not so much. Even so, this is no reason the quality or condition of air around the globe should be downplayed in terms of its importance. Air and weather are … Read more
Southern California, as far as air basins go, ranks among the worst, if it is not in fact ranked the worst, for smog in the United States. The battle to counter the effects of regional smog has been waging now for more than 75 years. The air in and around the state’s southland region took … Read more
When it comes to news, 2019 has not been a particularly encouraging nor comforting year where environmental protection is concerned. In getting at specifics, we’re talking air quality news here folks! As a case in point, it was announced that the U.S. had formally withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accord. Here at home also, California … Read more
The below Dec. 11, 2019 press release from United Nations Global Compact. 177 companies have pledged to set highly ambitious emissions reduction targets to help limit the worst effects of climate change — more than doubling in size since the first group of early movers was announced at the UN Climate Action Summit in September. … Read more
The below Dec. 10, 2019 media release from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA’s 14th Arctic Report Card recounts the numerous geophysical and biological changes that occurred in the northern polar region during 2019, with near-record high air and ocean temperatures and melting of the Greenland ice sheet, low sea-ice extents, and shifts in the … Read more
Trackless trains by definition have no wheels nor do they rely on rails upon which railroad wheels roll, as is the case with conventional rail systems, the exception being the Tubular Rail passenger application, in this case the understanding being that the plan is to employ rails (and rollers which, according to the plan, are … Read more
The utmost in interplanetary human transport has yet to be commercially delivered. Such is the same regarding delivery of the utmost in intra-planetary travel. We have not yet arrived at either of those so-called “destinations.” Though on the journeys there, we’ve been uninterruptedly, if not, unwaveringly, plodding along. As for what we’re in search of … Read more
Interesting displays at this year’s 25th Conference of the Parties conference on global warming and climate change being held in Madrid, Spain, between Dec. 2nd and the 13th, are the air pollution and climate change pods that people can pass through enabling them to have a first-hand look at what 90 percent of the world’s … Read more