One unexpected benefit from COVID-19 - less air pollution...

Focus of the article is outside the USA, but I would not be surprised to find similar results here.....and the side-by-side pictures are pretty dramatic...


https://www.theguardian.com/environ...air-pollution-falls-lockdown-coronavirus

and for those of us lucky enough to go to work still less traffic my hour plus commute has turned into around 30 minutes

Just be careful, the greenie weenies are going to use this as example to KILL ICE vehicles . . .and burning fossil fuel . . .

[quote=a12rag]Just be careful, the greenie weenies are going to use this as example to KILL ICE vehicles . . .and burning fossil fuel . . . [/quote

Accurate...

I doubt there is much difference here in the U.S. but probably dramatic differences in the other parts of the world...

All the examples in that article have something else in common, aside from cleaner air right now.

None of our pollution controls, be it automotive, industrial, or otherwise.

I've seen the results from NASA testing (in 1991 or 1992, in the Readers Digest) the air entering the U.S. on the west coast from 5000 ft. above sea level up to 65,000 above sea level 150 miles west of the west coast from the Alustian (SP?) island down to the tip of Baha CA and then the same altitudes 150 miles east of the east coast from Nova Scotia down to the southern tip of the Florida keys.
The air entering the U.S. was twenty,(20%) percent dirtier than it was when it left the east coast going toward Europe
My message is we, the U.S., doesn't add to global air pollution, we clean it up
The greenies need to focus on the helping the polluting nations clean their air up, not on us here in the U.S.

Auto reviewer Dan Neil in his Rumble Seat column on page D8 in the Saturday Wall Street Journal has a similar article about air pollution decreasing in LA with before and after pictures, although the two pictures were obviously not taken from the same spot.

Dan Neil goes on to say he is thoroughly capitalist but believes that “bowl like” land areas that have high populations can improve their local air quality by “generating the pollution far away and sending the electricity to local electric car chargers.”

When I was 22 years old I was kinda stunned when I witnessed how government owned English coal mines near Newcastle were not piling up their waste rock in carefully designed landfills - they were just mixing it with sea water and pumping it straight into the North Sea. When I asked about this they smiled and said “Strong currents carry it toward Germany’s beaches, not ours.”

Actually coal seams were exposed under the sea near Newcastle and after strong storms nice shiny black lumps of coal would wash up on beaches there. People would go down and collect this “Sea Coal” and haul it away in donkey pulled carts.

When I visited coal mines in Wales my host made sure to take me to the town of Aberfan where the government owned coal mine had built a waste rock landfill that failed after heavy rains and avalanched down onto the local Kindergarten school where 113 children were killed. I had already visited Buffalo Creek WV where a similar accident had occured.

a few of those images are NOT from the same time frame.... the one has a complete multi story structure show up, if you drag the comparison image.... I'd be willing to bet the photos are more hazy/fog days, compared to sunny days, and are not even virus related.

Not saying there's not less pollution, per se... but those comparison images are not truthful.

A bunch of BS propaganda!

First liar doesn't have a chance, but that don't stop em from trying.