Air pollution linked to increased risk of anxiety and stroke

[Sun Devil 92]

Kookiegrl, you silly ass. Without those of us living and working in the urban centers, you would not have roads, sewer systems, electricity, or water systems in those small towns. We pay the taxes that supply you with those things.

Self delusion.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

I am glad to support our infrastructure, science institutions, and educational system. We're a far stronger country because of it.

Shit up HUNTER GATHER and hater of civilization. Or how about stfu!!!

Do you purposely try to be a dick ?

 

[Old Rocks]

Do you purposely try to be so stupid?

 

[Old Rocks]

I live in the St. Johns area of Portland. I have eagles, hawks, and many small birds landing on my back deck all the time. The Northeastern part of Portland is the poor part. And the houses are better kept up than most of the home in the small towns of Oregon. Just a fact, and I have traveled and spent time in almost every small town in Eastern Oregon.

Kosher, your image of Portland and the other cities of Oregon, including Bend, is totally false. Far from being shitholes, they are some of the nicest cities in the world. While I love the small Eastern Oregon towns, they are rural backwaters with little going for them. The forests were over logged in the '80's, and mining is not going to ever come back as a major industry for the region.

Agriculture is all Eastern Oregon has, and that is in danger with the lack of water the increasing heat is creating. Fortunately, for the wheat farmers, they are in a area where the wind is strong, and the mills are supplementing their income enough to tide them over the lean times. But you are the one that wants to kill even that.

The only hope for Eastern Oregon is to attract the high tech industries that don't need major resources. And to do that, they have to attract the people that those industries need. That will not happen if the people there copy your attitude.

 

[Stephanie]

Good gawd, what isn't it going to be the cause of. some people will swallow anything

 

[skookerasbil]

This is why every post from MATTHEW is a goofball post >>>

UN Claims Going Green to Cost $76 Trillion

To progressive k00ks like him, costs don't matter. Well they matter to most people.................which is why fossil fuels are going nowhere assholes!!!

Over decades and like every investment we will get a return. So really, like our roads = we're better off for it.

I'd also like to spend a few trillion on nuclear and some more hydro.

Would you now s0n? Spend "just a few trillion"?? Well good for you.

Dreamers like you ( and most of the AGW idealists) are always ok with spending other peoples money. But in the real world, that doesn't go over real well. In the real world, like you see in Germany the past several years, the green dream blew up in the form of mega-expensive electricity costs for the people so its back to fossil fuels big time.......because the leaders don't like getting their asses kicked to the side of the road by voters. That's the way it works in the real world. Find me a candidate for president right now that is campaigning on much higher electricity costs to save the planet?
The only people who will line up for that are the low information voters that progressives feast upon......they, being assholes like you, think this shit if free.


Koshergirl makes a great point in this thread....to a person, all AGW climate crusaders are statists. The want desperately to have energy controlled by the state.......its just fine with them if your electricity bill goes from $250/month to $500/month. Read Plato, Hobbes, More, Fourier.......any of the social utopian philosophers and one can start connecting the dots. Anybody navigating in this forum who hasn't read the famous works of the knuckleheads listed above is doing so in a state of pronounced naïve.

 

[skookerasbil]

BTW.....here is the mindset of every AGW nutter in this forum. Take a gander of the level of hate on this Alinsky FACEBOOK page >>>

The Saul Alinsky Elite French foundation


This is the mind or the AGW radical = crush any and all of those who disagree!!!

 

[skookerasbil]

America continues a march towards increased poverty, particularly over the last several years >>>

Poverty In America: A Special Report

49 million people in America now live in poverty = the statists are thrilled. The higher that number gets, the closer these fascists are to achieving their goal..........and they will continue to use radical environmentalism to help achieve that goal!!!!

 

[waltky]

Granny got flowers inna house `cause she says dey look pretty...

Plants Clear Indoors of Pollutants, Study Finds
August 27, 2016 | WASHINGTON — Polluted air is a public health problem, not only outdoors, but indoors as well. Experts say it can be even worse inside because of the variety of household chemicals that emit fumes and irritating particulates. Researchers, however, have found that plants, as part of their carbon exchange cycle, can take up these pollutants, clearing the air in homes.

It makes sense in a way since we could not live without plants. They absorb the carbon dioxide that we exhale, and release the oxygen we need to breathe. And we depend on plants to produce an enormous amount of oxygen, according to Vadoud Niri from the State University of New York at Oswego. “Each of us breathes over 3,000 gallons of air every day. And also, we can’t go without air over three minutes. So it means that air quality is extremely important and we need clean air to breathe every day.” Scientists say air pollution, caused by chemicals called volatile organic compounds (VOCs), is three to five times greater inside our homes. VOCs include cancer-causing benzene and formaldehyde, which are given off by paints, upholstery, printers and stored fuel. Indoor air pollution can be the source of “sick building syndrome,” which can cause dizziness, asthma and allergies.

Indoor and outdoor plants are seen at a glassed-in conservatory in St. Paul, Minnesota, June 3, 2014. Based on a recent study, scientists recommend keeping varieties of plants as each absorbs different pollutants.​

New approach to ‘scrubbing’ air

The traditional way of removing indoor air pollutants is through filtration methods that remove harmful air from the house while pumping in cleaner air from outdoors. “But we thought maybe we could use an easier and simpler and even cheaper way to get rid of these VOCs,” said Niri. He said the idea to look into plants for filtration came from a 1984 report by the U.S. space agency NASA, which was investigating putting plants on the space station to clean the air. In a specially designed chamber, Niri and colleagues tested five different plants that are commonly found in central New York homes: the jade plant, spider plant, a bromeliad, Caribbean tree cactus and dracaena. They were exposed to eight different VOCs. Niri says that each plant absorbed many of the different chemicals, some specific to a particular species.

A blooming zinnia flower grown aboard the International Space Station. As far back as 1984, NASA started testing plants for their air filtration qualities.​

The bromeliad, for example, took up six of the eight volatile organic compounds it was exposed to. Eighty percent of each chemical was absorbed by the bromeliad plant in just 12 hours. The researchers thought it could not absorb the other VOCs, such as chlorine, because its atoms are too big. All five plants were effective at removing acetone, the smelly compound in nail polish, from the air, taking up around 94 percent of the chemical. For this reason, scientists are anxious to see how well the plants perform in nail salons. “We would recommend that instead of having one plant, five of one plant, we chose one of each to make sure that we uptake all types of VOCs from our air,” Niri said of greenery's chemical-absorbing properties. Niri discussed the air cleansing properties of plants at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society. He said the next step is to place plants in actual rooms to see how well they perform.

Plants Clear Indoors of Pollutants, Study Finds

 

[Crick]

WE need to move back to the woods, but with air conditioners.