Then report about that Miguel not this rubbish, my government has spent more of my money cleaning up pollution, how about yours? Our cities are cleaner thanks to cleaner technologies, that your government has yet to burden you with. Think about it sir.

Jim

PS:

I'm a countyr raised redneck, I've seen slaughterhouses, I've even butchered a few in my time. Thank God for putting them here for that purpose along with many other things like plants. Which I also enjoy in its many different forms and ways. Perhaps the lack of red meat is your real health issue ever thought of it that way, since everyone seems to disbelieve whatever science is shown as proof.

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Jim and Michael,

I will reply this afternoon if I can. Meanwhile, I will have my usual vegetables for lunch and will take a nap if the cacophony of cars outside my window lets me. In the meantime, you might have time to view a few videos HERE. I hope they don't disturb your own appetite.

And Jim, let me tell you this right now: Everyday I am forced to breath a heavy quota of smog within my very neighborhood from cars, trucks and mainly buses. And sometimes I have to go to some districts where air is simply irrespirable. I talk from my own experience, not only from what I read or am told.

Hugs,

Miguel

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Miguel

I second what Jim is saying.

The site you seem to quote the most is a George Soros group http://www.care2.com/causes/smoggiest-may-in-five-years.html#ixzz1xgoy2U1X

They just spew out untrue article by paid leftist (new world order/ UN) propagandists.

Miguel by promoting there rubbish you are helping the evil cabal.

They want us to fear problems so they can control us, when in real fact; there is NO problem.

Michael

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The root cause is not man's .0001 percent contribution to the problem, its all the animals in the world producing methane, its all the volcanoes spewing ash and co2 among other things, its the co2 captured in the used to be frozen tundra of the norther and most southern areas, its the continuous co2 and other gasses spewed out through the ocean waters and the most obvious suspect is the SUN that is tossing out extra heat and gamma rays due to its own volcanic activity. Wake up folks its a cycle, Miguel, you and I have have lived long enough to see them happening. Do not fall for the socialist/Marxist/fascist/Nazi/communist,caliphate crap my friend. You are wiser than that, I thought.

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Smoggiest May In Five Years

• by Moms Clean Air Force
• June 12, 2012

by Molly Rauch

This week the non-profit group Clean Air Watch took a look at how much smog Americans have endured this spring. Clean Air Watch examined the number of states in which smog, or ozone, exceeded national standards in the month of May, as well as the number of times state ozone monitors registered levels above the federal standards.

Smog is caused by pollution from cars, trucks, power plants and other industrial sources. It damages lungs and triggers asthma attacks, among other health impacts. In May 2012, 31 states had smog “exceedences” (the technical term for when an air quality monitor measures ozone levels that exceed federal standards). There were a total of 854 such events. This number is almost triple the number of similar events in May of 2011.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) monitors air pollution around the country through a nationwide network of monitors. (See here for a map of the air-monitoring network.) When a monitor detects ozone, or smog, in violation of federal ozone standards, it is posted on the AirNow website – but that website only shows you what’s happening today, not what’s happening this year.

Clean Air Watch says that, based on these nationwide air quality monitors, we’ve had the smoggiest May in at least 5 years. Why was it so bad? As Frank O’Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch explained, ozone is created when emissions mix with heat and sunlight.“Hot weather helped trigger a problem,” he said. “We need to tackle the root cause, which is pollution.” O’Donnell also pointed out that global warming will create the weather conditions that will lead to more smog, which is something Moms Clean Air Force is also concerned about.

To add insult to injury, these exceedences are based on the federal ozone standard set by George W. Bush in 2008 – a standard that the EPA admits is too weak to adequately protect asthmatics and others from health damage. John Walke, clean air director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, lays the history of that standard bare in painful detail in an illuminating post that will leave you speechless (breathless?) over the compromised process by which the government sets health protective air pollution standards.

It’s a circus of moneyed influence and neglected science.

As Walke points out, the 2008 Bush standard studiously ignored the advice of the scientific board tasked with advising EPA on the health effects of ozone:

“Despite the Clean Air Act requirement that clean air standards be reviewed and revised every five years, the Bush administration delayed and failed to revise the 1997 ozone standards until March of 2008. Then-EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson disregarded the unanimous recommendations of EPA’s independent, expert science advisors that the 84 ppb standard be lowered to between 60 and 70 ppb in order to protect public health with an adequate safety margin. Instead Johnson set the standard well outside that range at 75 ppb.

After Johnson rejected the science advisors’ unanimous ozone advice, the advisors took the extraordinary step of writing a strong letter to him condemning his weaker 75 ppb standard: “[T]he members of the CASAC Ozone Review Panel do not endorse the new primary ozone standard as being sufficiently protective of public health.”

That standard, which the CASAC Ozone Review Panel did not endorse, is still our nation’s standard, because last September, President Obama delayed updating it yet again. As Walke writes, that decision has real-life implications for our nation’s health:

“By blocking a stronger smog standard, first at 65 ppb and then at 70 ppb, the president and White House officials have allowed the following health hazards to occur every year until that standard eventually is strengthened and enforced: 4,300 to 8,000 premature deaths; 2,200 to 3,800 nonfatal heart attacks; and 23,000 to 40,000 asthma attacks.”

All this means that our current smog standard, the one by which state air monitoring stations mark our air’s compliance, is too weak to protect our health. As Frank O’Donnell of Clean Air Watch said, the exceedances are “an underestimation of the true problem.”

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Hi again Jim,

Seems I will have to leave your messages unanswered today and maybe the next few days as well, since my screen has been looking like this all through this afternoon (see below) and I can hardly write on my keyboard now. Can it be God is protecting you? Looks like I even might have to change my monitor...

What I really don't like is your assertion that God put animals on this Earth for "that purpose" (implying to be killed in slaughterhouses) together with plants. Please read the Bible carefully, you might be surprised to read that God put plants and animals in our care, not to abuse and torture them, and particularly the latter, in such an atrocious way. If after the Flood He allowed mankind to eat them (but not their blood) it was because after any flood the food becomes so scarce in the areas affected that you can hardly find a snake or two alive, and almost no vegetables, among the few things that are left unscathed... and you can imagine how it was after the Flood. But it was an emergency measure, not one to remain valid forever and for all mankind.

As to the smog in our cities, I have so powerful and solid arguments to prove it is mainly caused by man that you would equally be surprised to hear them. My guess is your opinion is heavily biased by the fact that you have some relatives among the culprits, but I am talking for the rest of the planet. If I am wrong, I will apologize.

So see you in a couple of days if you don't mind.

Hugs,

Miguel

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Then report about that Miguel not this rubbish, my government has spent more of my money cleaning up pollution, how about yours? Our cities are cleaner thanks to cleaner technologies, that your government has yet to burden you with. Think about it sir.

Jim

PS:

I'm a countyr raised redneck, I've seen slaughterhouses, I've even butchered a few in my time. Thank God for putting them here for that purpose along with many other things like plants. Which I also enjoy in its many different forms and ways. Perhaps the lack of red meat is your real health issue ever thought of it that way, since everyone seems to disbelieve whatever science is shown as proof.

Quote:
Jim and Michael,

I will reply this afternoon if I can. Meanwhile, I will have my usual vegetables for lunch and will take a nap if the cacophony of cars outside my window lets me. In the meantime, you might have time to view a few videos HERE. I hope they don't disturb your own appetite.

And Jim, let me tell you this right now: Everyday I am forced to breath a heavy quota of smog within my very neighborhood from cars, trucks and mainly buses. And sometimes I have to go to some districts where air is simply irrespirable. I talk from my own experience, not only from what I read or am told.

Hugs,

Miguel

Quote:
Miguel

I second what Jim is saying.

The site you seem to quote the most is a George Soros group http://www.care2.com/causes/smoggiest-may-in-five-years.html#ixzz1xgoy2U1X

They just spew out untrue article by paid leftist (new world order/ UN) propagandists.

Miguel by promoting there rubbish you are helping the evil cabal.

They want us to fear problems so they can control us, when in real fact; there is NO problem.

Michael

Quote:
The root cause is not man's .0001 percent contribution to the problem, its all the animals in the world producing methane, its all the volcanoes spewing ash and co2 among other things, its the co2 captured in the used to be frozen tundra of the norther and most southern areas, its the continuous co2 and other gasses spewed out through the ocean waters and the most obvious suspect is the SUN that is tossing out extra heat and gamma rays due to its own volcanic activity. Wake up folks its a cycle, Miguel, you and I have have lived long enough to see them happening. Do not fall for the socialist/Marxist/fascist/Nazi/communist,caliphate crap my friend. You are wiser than that, I thought.

Quote:

Smoggiest May In Five Years

• by Moms Clean Air Force
• June 12, 2012

by Molly Rauch

This week the non-profit group Clean Air Watch took a look at how much smog Americans have endured this spring. Clean Air Watch examined the number of states in which smog, or ozone, exceeded national standards in the month of May, as well as the number of times state ozone monitors registered levels above the federal standards.

Smog is caused by pollution from cars, trucks, power plants and other industrial sources. It damages lungs and triggers asthma attacks, among other health impacts. In May 2012, 31 states had smog “exceedences” (the technical term for when an air quality monitor measures ozone levels that exceed federal standards). There were a total of 854 such events. This number is almost triple the number of similar events in May of 2011.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) monitors air pollution around the country through a nationwide network of monitors. (See here for a map of the air-monitoring network.) When a monitor detects ozone, or smog, in violation of federal ozone standards, it is posted on the AirNow website – but that website only shows you what’s happening today, not what’s happening this year.

Clean Air Watch says that, based on these nationwide air quality monitors, we’ve had the smoggiest May in at least 5 years. Why was it so bad? As Frank O’Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch explained, ozone is created when emissions mix with heat and sunlight.“Hot weather helped trigger a problem,” he said. “We need to tackle the root cause, which is pollution.” O’Donnell also pointed out that global warming will create the weather conditions that will lead to more smog, which is something Moms Clean Air Force is also concerned about.

To add insult to injury, these exceedences are based on the federal ozone standard set by George W. Bush in 2008 – a standard that the EPA admits is too weak to adequately protect asthmatics and others from health damage. John Walke, clean air director for the Natural Resources Defense Council, lays the history of that standard bare in painful detail in an illuminating post that will leave you speechless (breathless?) over the compromised process by which the government sets health protective air pollution standards.

It’s a circus of moneyed influence and neglected science.

As Walke points out, the 2008 Bush standard studiously ignored the advice of the scientific board tasked with advising EPA on the health effects of ozone:

“Despite the Clean Air Act requirement that clean air standards be reviewed and revised every five years, the Bush administration delayed and failed to revise the 1997 ozone standards until March of 2008. Then-EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson disregarded the unanimous recommendations of EPA’s independent, expert science advisors that the 84 ppb standard be lowered to between 60 and 70 ppb in order to protect public health with an adequate safety margin. Instead Johnson set the standard well outside that range at 75 ppb.

After Johnson rejected the science advisors’ unanimous ozone advice, the advisors took the extraordinary step of writing a strong letter to him condemning his weaker 75 ppb standard: “[T]he members of the CASAC Ozone Review Panel do not endorse the new primary ozone standard as being sufficiently protective of public health.”

That standard, which the CASAC Ozone Review Panel did not endorse, is still our nation’s standard, because last September, President Obama delayed updating it yet again. As Walke writes, that decision has real-life implications for our nation’s health:

“By blocking a stronger smog standard, first at 65 ppb and then at 70 ppb, the president and White House officials have allowed the following health hazards to occur every year until that standard eventually is strengthened and enforced: 4,300 to 8,000 premature deaths; 2,200 to 3,800 nonfatal heart attacks; and 23,000 to 40,000 asthma attacks.”

All this means that our current smog standard, the one by which state air monitoring stations mark our air’s compliance, is too weak to protect our health. As Frank O’Donnell of Clean Air Watch said, the exceedances are “an underestimation of the true problem.”

Support Clean Air with Moms Clean Air Force

Related Stories:

Spring of 2012 Warmest on Record

Pollution Puts Athletes At Risk

Pregnant? Every Breath You Take Counts

Read more: asthma, environment, global warming, politics, pollution

Photo credit: Steven Buss

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/smoggiest-may-in-five-years.html#ixzz1xgoy2U1X

Firstly: I will not comment on your early statement that man's contribution to smog problem is a .0001 because I find it ridiculous. Nowhere have I found such an absurdity and it cannot be taken seriously. If you want to illustrate yourself on the problem you might go here for some well-founded, specific data:http://www.ehow.com/list_6159455_causes-photochemical-smog_.html. But if you are too lazy for it, I will copy this article's opening paragraph for you:

"Smog is a term evolved from smoke and fog. Smoke emitted from factories, vehicles and domestic ovens that use coal mix up with fog and forms a thick layer in the atmosphere. Smog envelops considerable areas of towns and cities. Photochemical smog is caused by the action of solar ultraviolet radiation on atmosphere polluted with hydrocarbons and oxides of nitrogen especially from automobile exhaust. Smog can occur both during the day and at night but photochemical smog only happens in the presence of sunlight. Photochemical smog is a widespread problem all over the world as industrial and vehicular emissions increase day by day..."

As to your statement about animals producing methane: can it be that the huge overpopulation of animals intended to daily feed the immense mass of meat-eaters in the world is heavily contributing to the smog? By the way, believe it or not, an hectarea of corn cultivated in a given period of time produces as much as ten times the proteines than can be produced by cattle raised in the same extension of land over a similar period. In other words, raising cattle for food is ruinous for the planet both in terms of amount of proteins produced for human food and pollution.

And yes the plants have feelings, too, as I first learned about some forty or fifty years ago. And it can be for this very reason that before eating them, the Hindus dutifully ask the vegetables that they will use for their meals to forgive them.However, whenever they can, they will try to avoid killing the plant itself and only eat the leaves and fruit from it.

All your other derisive comments I will rather not answer, discussion may become interminable and I don't have the time for it.

Hugs,

Miguel