About Trump's withdrawl of the US from the Paris Climate Agreement

Lafayette · Jun 2, 2017

From the World Health Organization's Fact sheet - Ambient (outdoor) air quality and health

Key facts
*Air pollution is a major environmental risk to health. By reducing air pollution levels, countries can reduce the burden of disease from stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, and both chronic and acute respiratory diseases, including asthma.
*The lower the levels of air pollution, the better the cardiovascular and respiratory health of the population will be, both long- and short-term.
*The "WHO Air quality guidelines" provide an assessment of health effects of air pollution and thresholds for health-harmful pollution levels.
*In 2014, 92% of the world population was living in places where the WHO air quality guidelines levels were not met.
*Ambient (outdoor air pollution) in both cities and rural areas was estimated to cause 3 million premature deaths worldwide in 2012.
*Some 88% of those premature deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries, and the greatest number in the WHO Western Pacific and South-East Asia regions.
*Policies and investments supporting cleaner transport, energy-efficient housing, power generation, industry and better municipal waste management would reduce key sources of urban outdoor air pollution.
*Reducing outdoor emissions from household coal and biomass energy systems, agricultural waste incineration, forest fires and certain agro-forestry activities (e.g. charcoal production) would reduce key rural and peri-urban air pollution sources in developing regions.
*Reducing outdoor air pollution also reduces emissions of CO2 and short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon particles and methane, thus contributing to the near- and long-term mitigation of climate change.
*In addition to outdoor air pollution, indoor smoke is a serious health risk for some 3 billion people who cook and heat their homes with biomass fuels and coal.

One must presume nobody suggested to Donald Dork that he reads the above fact-sheet regarding the tight link between pollution and death-rates in a country.

From the MIT News, Study: Air pollution causes 200,000 early deaths each year in the U.S. - excerpt:

The group tracked ground-level emissions from sources such as industrial smokestacks, vehicle tailpipes, marine and rail operations, and commercial and residential heating throughout the United States, and found that such air pollution causes about 200,000 early deaths each year. Emissions from road transportation are the most significant contributor, causing 53,000 premature deaths, followed closely by power generation, with 52,000.

In a state-by-state analysis, the researchers found that California suffers the worst health impacts from air pollution, with about 21,000 early deaths annually, mostly attributed to road transportation and to commercial and residential emissions from heating and cooking.

The researchers also mapped local emissions in 5,695 U.S. cities, finding the highest emissions-related mortality rate in Baltimore, where 130 out of every 100,000 residents likely die in a given year due to long-term exposure to air pollution.

“In the past five to 10 years, the evidence linking air-pollution exposure to risk of early death has really solidified and gained scientific and political traction,” says Steven Barrett, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. “There’s a realization that air pollution is a major problem in any city, and there’s a desire to do something about it.”

You have to be brainless to disregard the results from rigorous analysis over the period of time given (a decade).

Just remember - the next death due to climate-change (for the worse) as described above could by yours ...

longview · Jun 2, 2017

Lafayette said:
From the World Health Organization's Fact sheet - Ambient (outdoor) air quality and health

One must presume nobody suggested to Donald Dork that he reads the above fact-sheet regarding the tight link between pollution and death-rates in a country.

From the MIT News, Study: Air pollution causes 200,000 early deaths each year in the U.S. - excerpt:

You have to be brainless to disregard the results from rigorous analysis over the period of time given (a decade).

Just remember - the next death due to climate-change (for the worse) as described above could by yours ...

A rather interesting tie in between Air pollution and CO2, especially since the cited document, "WHO Air quality guidelines"
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/69477/1/WHO_SDE_PHE_OEH_06.02_eng.pdf
does not mention CO2!
So at 409 ppm, is CO2 dangerous?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
While the table shows that 2 to 3% may cause shortness of breath, we should consider how many parts per million that is.
2 % is 2 parts per hundred, or 20 parts per thousand, or 20,000 parts per million.
Not only are we a long way from where CO2 would become a toxic gas issue, it would be
almost impossible for human activity to ever increase CO2 level to the point it would be so.

ttwtt78640 · Jun 2, 2017

Lafayette said:
From the World Health Organization's Fact sheet - Ambient (outdoor) air quality and health

One must presume nobody suggested to Donald Dork that he reads the above fact-sheet regarding the tight link between pollution and death-rates in a country.

From the MIT News, Study: Air pollution causes 200,000 early deaths each year in the U.S. - excerpt:

You have to be brainless to disregard the results from rigorous analysis over the period of time given (a decade).

Just remember - the next death due to climate-change (for the worse) as described above could by yours ...

Is this a lame attempt to equate having air pollution "goals" to having CO2 level "goals"?

Your source makes no mention of CA or Baltimore having high CO2 levels - probably because CO2 is not an air pollution health issue at all.

What are the drastic effects of current world CO2 levels on world health?

Your source seems to lack any - probably because neither climate change nor CO2 levels have caused massive health problems.

The stuff that comes out of car exhaust or power plants which causes these health problems is not CO2.

Tim the plumber · Jun 2, 2017

Key facts
*Air pollution is a major environmental risk to health. By reducing air pollution levels, countries can reduce the burden of disease from stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, and both chronic and acute respiratory diseases, including asthma.
*The lower the levels of air pollution, the better the cardiovascular and respiratory health of the population will be, both long- and short-term.
*The "WHO Air quality guidelines" provide an assessment of health effects of air pollution and thresholds for health-harmful pollution levels.
*In 2014, 92% of the world population was living in places where the WHO air quality guidelines levels were not met.
*Ambient (outdoor air pollution) in both cities and rural areas was estimated to cause 3 million premature deaths worldwide in 2012.
*Some 88% of those premature deaths occurred in low- and middle-income countries, and the greatest number in the WHO Western Pacific and South-East Asia regions.
*Policies and investments supporting cleaner transport, energy-efficient housing, power generation, industry and better municipal waste management would reduce key sources of urban outdoor air pollution.
*Reducing outdoor emissions from household coal and biomass energy systems, agricultural waste incineration, forest fires and certain agro-forestry activities (e.g. charcoal production) would reduce key rural and peri-urban air pollution sources in developing regions.
*Reducing outdoor air pollution also reduces emissions of CO2 and short-lived climate pollutants such as black carbon particles and methane, thus contributing to the near- and long-term mitigation of climate change.
*In addition to outdoor air pollution, indoor smoke is a serious health risk for some 3 billion people who cook and heat their homes with biomass fuels and coal.

You don't seem to understand that the Paris accord is nothing to do with air quality.

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