That you’ll never hear
In California’s Los Angeles Basin, levels of some vehicle-related air pollutants have decreased by about 98 percent since the 1960s, even as area residents now burn three times as much gasoline and diesel fuel. Between 2002 and 2010 alone, the concentration of air pollutants called volatile organic compounds (VOCs) dropped by half, according to a new study by NOAA scientists and colleagues, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research yesterday.
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Pass the salt, please.
http://sciencedude.ocregister.com/2012/04/25/smog-report-l-a-region-still-among-nations-worst/170814/
The sad truth is that the EPA accomplished its mission in the first 10 years and then had to start making problems up to justify its existence.
^^along with seasonal botique gas blends to raise the prices beyond any sense.
Read by Liberals as,”we need more regulations!”
Off Topic…. I did the Laundry today. Anybody missing a Blue sock?
Can’t have the Explorers and Yukons running over their dogma.
@5
oh that’s where that went
PS: Sorry for hammering on this, but the blogger I am trying to remember was really one of our people, and I’m sure someone here used to read her, if only the right person reads my comment.
Any of you long time blog readers remember a blog by a good looking blond lady who was in the army? She went by Cami, or Kami, but I ‘m pretty sure that was not her real name. Anyone remember what her blog was called? If she is still blogging?
Surely you wouldn’t forget this name, but could it have been Lindasog?
http://www.myspace.com/lindasog
thanks for the reply bocopro, but no, she is not the one
AQMD still considers us a “severe non attainment zone.”
^^^ Aaagh!….. Wait, does that make us SNAZ ZY?
That used to be good. As I get older, I get confused…….
I’ve been out to LA a number of times over the past 15 years for training, seminars and vacations. Never had any reason to complain about the air quality (well except for the smell of the seals in Manhattan Beach harbor :-) ) Maybe they wouldn’t be paying $4-4.45/gallon if the EPA and California wasn’t run by leftists sitting around watching “An Inconvenient Truth” and “2012″ waiting for a non-existant Chicken Little to drop on their heads….
They’ve definitely solved the air pollution problem. Now, if they can only do something about the dumbasses.
They’ve definitely solved the air pollution problem. Now, if they can only do something about the dumbasses.
Hahaha!!
^ Jess (14)if they can only do something about the dumbasses.
Run them through a catalytic converter.
It’s off subject but….
Russia’s air force will get 1,600 new warplanes and choppers by 2020…
http://www.rt.com/news/air-force-renovation-putin-459/
Think I’ver read repeatedly that they’re upgrading their nuclear arsenal too…
And their navy….
Wonder why they need all that?
No need to worry though, BHO will have more flexibility after the election.
kinlaw – It rang a vague bell: might check with Rodgie…
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Hey PatrickP, how many times have they changed the target numbers by an order of magnitude? Like, five?
“vague bell” — provoking image, unusual concept, that kinda stuff stirs my inner poet. Made me think of this one I wrote a few weeks ago as a comment on the unbridgeable chasm betwixt Islam and Christianity:
In a rustic old town
Is a lonely old church
Where a dusty old bell
With a scratchy old voice
Calls a graying old crowd
For a kindly old priest
And his rumpled old book
So a simple old tale
Of a loving old God
And a joyous old prayer
To a holy old place
Can be shared.
And contented they go home
And thank their god
And have their meal
And love their neighbors.
Under shiny new domes
Built with lavish new wealth
By the selfish new rich
Kneel the savage new crowds
Where the jealous new monks
Preach their fearsome new wars
‘Gainst the hated new state
With their petty new claims
And their clever new words
While their fancy new guns
March in gaudy new ranks
As the steady new wail
From the muezzin’s new amp
Starts the garbled new growl
Of Jihad.
And angry they go home
And build their bombs
And long for death
And curse their brothers.
Two things about Los Angeles valley, and the Central Valley, for that matter.
Two hundred years ago, the local indians called the LA valley, “Valley of the smokes!”.
As an aviator who flew out of El Toro and Lemoore for thousands of hours, I know there is a natural weather phenomona, called an “Inversion Layer” in both valleys. Simply put, there is a temperature change that occurs at 2000 feet. What this does in late winter and early spring is cause a regular cloud layer at 2000 ft. in those times.
It also traps the exhaust of a zillion cars on the freeways mornings and evenings. We used to drive cars that got maybe 12-14 miles per gallon, but now, as with my car, I get 35 miles to the gallon.
That is what makes the difference……
Maybe the LA has less pollutants, but the view west from Moro Rock (Roughly east of SF, in Sequoia NP) is still an ugly, grey/purple cloud of gunk.