And yet they have the strictest laws for air quality.
In La La Liberal land? That can’t be. Surely you jest.
There’s not a single mention of the major source.
China
Bakersfield tops the list for having the most unhealthy days from airborne particles spewed by highway traffic, diesel trucks, farm equipment and fireplaces, the American Lung Association’s State of the Air 2016 report says
The California Central Valley (look on a map) is flat and for the most part bare land. Nature picking up dirt and moving it elsewhere would be the most likely cause of any airborne particles.
Another study to provide the legislature a reason to restrict the freedoms of the citizens of California (they want to do away with fireplaces, and it appears farms).
The air is much cleaner in California and with 15 million more people than 40 years ago. Football practice was getting cut short or canceled all the time for smog alearts back in the late 70’s. You could cut it with a knife. I rarely ever see days like that now.
YAY!!
Let’s us now bring in EVEN MORE MILLIONS of third-world ILLITERATES!!!
That’ll fix it.
You don’t know the half of it :((
www.aircrap.org
All those people with jobs that drive to and from work everyday, and those nasty farmers with their farm equipment have got to go, then CA will have nice clean air for all the Berners who won’t need to work to traipse around in while they are finding themselves and learning how to love their fellow man and do finger painting or whatever art to enhance the human experience.
Wrong. California does not have the dirtiest air. It has the dirtiest smog traps. Texas has large cities but no air quality problems even though they use coal in their city power plants. Why? Because Texas is a Plains State and California is a Basin State with valleys and inversion layers that trap smog. The solution to pollution is dilution. But California policy (Assembly Bill 375) diverts population growth into the smog traps instead of away from the smog traps on the phony basis that this cuts down on auto commuting. By the way asthma and lung cancer rates are about the same in Texas and California so the argument that reducing air pollution is a health benefit is dubious. Smog is an irritant and should be reduced but reducing it doesn’t improve disease rates.
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Even the ‘dirtiest’ air in California is too ‘clean’ to be healthy.
Most of our air is far too low in turpenes, thus making life difficult for most asthmatics, who need the turps in the air.
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Given topography, uncontrolled forest fires and volcanic activity in California...
Any panic today is the chicken little utter ignorance effect...
Bunk, we have filters on everything but our butts.
If we are high I would suggest the source being China’s unfiltered pollution coasting over at some level and mixing with ours.
We can’t filter China from here.
We need to ban fireplaces. That is the articles agenda. Read carefully.