“The soot on these birds’ feathers allowed us to trace the amount of
black carbon in the air over time, and we found that the air at the turn
of the century was even more polluted than scientists previously
thought,” says Shane DuBay, a graduate student at The Field Museum and
the University of Chicago and one of the authors of the study. He and
co-author Carl Fuldner, also a graduate student at UChicago, analyzed
over a thousand birds collected over the last 135 years to determine and
quantify the effects of soot in the air over cities in the Rust Belt.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/10/12/dirty-bird-carcasses-tell-the-story-of-how-air-pollution-has-improved-in-the-last-100-years/
I love real science.
Youngens have no idea how bad pollution was. So Cal has improved a lot but piling more people in doesn't help.
ReplyDeleteInteresting article on ZH toady about accidentally finding enriched uranium in the air over Alaska.
When I was a kid lookin in Birmingham in '63, there were 260 days a year that the air was dangerous to breathe. We lived there a year while my Dad finished college, and I don't remember seeing the sun that entire year. I was quite young...
ReplyDeleteI spent the 6th grade in Balwin Park in the late 1940's. I can remember walking home from the movies and watching fingers of soot floating down like snow. At that time there were a lot of citrus groves in the area and the farmers would burn discarded crankcase oil in what were called smudge pots. At home, I could look in the bath mirror and see black rings around each nostril. Good Times!!!
ReplyDeleteCinco-x up remembered not seeing the sun that year. I went to Detroit in 1960 to witness a cold weather test. I met our company rep for diner and he talked about being depressed in Detroit and didn't know why until the sun came out in the spring.
Ya... Not a huge fan of regulation, but I do like clean air and clean water
DeleteThe worst place I ever lived was Upland and the air was horrid. Kaiser steel plant in Fontana polluted the air and it would back up to the hills. Lived there six months and had a sinus infection till we moved to Santa Monica.
ReplyDeleteI remember the smug pots as well back in the days of the orange groves. Simple life back then.
I used to hate visiting Panama City. The St John's paper mill let a horrid stench drift across half the city. Even when the wind was blowing it away, the trees and buildings still stuck
DeleteI lived in Western Pennsylvania when I was a kid in the 1940's and early 50's. I remember the night sky was lit up red due to the blast furnaces at the steel mils around Pittsburgh. Quite a bit of pollution going into the air I imagine.
ReplyDeleteFaaaaak you're old!!!!!!!!!
DeleteAs far as soot is concerned, at one time in the mid 40's, we lived about 100 yards from the railroad track. When a train came along (steam locomotives), my mom would have to run out and take down any wash that was drying on the clothes lines before the soot landed. People had to put up with a lot more back then. We live in the lap of luxury for the most part these days.
ReplyDeleteIn Balto, the air was bad, but not that bad.
ReplyDeleteThere were some tracks, a few blocks away and I loved to hear the trains rumbling by.
ReplyDeleteSoot, as you know, is not carbon dioxide.
ReplyDeleteEver visit Cedar Rapids Iowa -- city of five smells ?
ReplyDeleteQuaker Oats and a slaughter house were a couple of them. Not sure what the others were.
Nope. Why would oats smell? Why would anybody visit Cedar Rapids?
ReplyDelete>Why would anybody visit Cedar Rapids?
ReplyDeleteRockwell Collins.
They smell?
ReplyDeleteActually the factory does have a distinct smell.
ReplyDeleteNot unpleasant though.
It smells of flowers and sometimes of fireplaces here.
ReplyDeleteThe smell of paper factories has got to be the worst smell in the world. Worse than. Cat Pee and armpits.
ReplyDeleteIf you get close to the ocean, it smells like ocean.
ReplyDeleteA clean cat smells devine.
ReplyDeleteWe got that new dog smell! Chihuahua mix, we think hair color is brown and black like a dachshund. Maybe the Vet can tell as the shelter wasn't sure of much. They think she is 5 years old. Cute and happy to be home. Our little dog Suzie is now the big dog. LOL!
ReplyDeletehttps://imgur.com/a/h95X6
ReplyDeleteAny guesses as to what she is?
A dog!
ReplyDeleteAmazing! LOL!
ReplyDeleteGoldman is saying that fiscal matters were entering uncharted territory. People said that a lot on calculated risk and I agreed. A lot of people got kicked out of their houses, quickly rather than slowly. Nothing particularly uncharted happened.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning!
ReplyDeleteHere we go again! giving money to people marginally able to pay it back, to cheaply has a track record. I wish it would hit 6-7% and houses start to be affordable.
My last rental is under contract at a small reduction in rent. Empty for 5 months. Recession in full swing.
Where are you, I forget. I don't see it, anywhere in Florida.
DeleteOf course we are getting all that space related business.
DeleteCentral Nebraska, out side North Platte a rail road town with truck stops and a great hospital. Part of the problem is low wage earners can go to Calirado and get a higher minimum wages and smoke pot with out being arrested. For being a large Nebraska city (22K) it never grows and the middle class has been leaving. Weekly wages are about $250 less the Omaha and $400 less then national. IMO
ReplyDeleteWow. Your rentals are there?
ReplyDeleteHere is the Goldman quote that enraged me:
ReplyDelete“ In the past, as the economy strengthens and the debt burden increases, Congress has responded by raising taxes and cutting spending. ”.
Where were they $7 trillion dollars ago? That’s when thevtecivery supposedly began.
What they should probably do is nothing. The best we can expect from politicians as to finance.
DeleteKeysian repose during a recovery is to save some money to have it on the next recession. This is why it's wrong. Politicians can't bear to do that and never will.
ReplyDeleteMost people can't do that. Most people can't save a dollar a week.
DeleteResponse dyac.
ReplyDeleteYes North Platte. Small towns are pretty much section 8 welfare queens.
ReplyDeleteMost people are educated into illiteracy. Remember your safety net is your home equity. Oppp's we took it out for a vacation!. There's your savings.
Keynesian Repose has a certain poetry to it. Nevertheless there is a new post.
ReplyDeleteI include the govt in the can't save column. Some times a state govt manages to
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