Sentences with phrase «about smog»

The thing about smog, is that heat and sunlight speed up the chemical reaction which creates it.

As Yale Environment 360 reported in June, this is mainly a result of changes in the Chinese economy, where energy efficiency is improving fast, growth is shifting to low - carbon activities and public anger about smog is forcing the shutdown of coal - fired power plants in Beijing and elsewhere.

In other words, the Olympics are small potatoes, let them lie about the smog.

Wary of government regulation to slash pollution from refineries and other operations within their supply chain, as well as public concern about smog in cities such as Los Angeles, petroleum officials at API and member firms offered alternative theories of how smog was created.

«The worst thing that can happen, in many instances, is the hasty passage of a law or laws for the control of a given air pollution situation,» Vance Jenkins, executive secretary of the Smoke and Fumes Committee, said in a 1954 trade journal article about smog pollution.

No one could live in southern California without concern about smog, for example.

And noone could live in Southern California and not know about smog.

When I would complain about the smog as a young man in the 50s and the 60s, he'd say: «I know what you're AGAINST, but what are you FOR?

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But with its capital often choked by smog and its people angry about the environmental degradation that rapid development has wrought across the country, Beijing has become a strong proponent of efforts to halt global warming.

There may be a small glimmer of hope for Chinese citizens concerned about their privacy, however — a recent report in the South China Morning Post found that China's notorious smog problem has rendered much of the country's expensive surveillance system «useless.»

But nationalism against the backdrop of massive overcapacity, a depreciated Chinese currency, and widespread frustrations about environmental degradations (for example, heavy smog in a number of cities)-- to mention just the more salient issues — has the potential to lead to backlash against Chinese leaders.

All you hear about is the smog in L.A. — you never hear about the perfect days like that one, with blue skies, breezes off the ocean, and 71 degrees.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sounded the alarm about the deep cuts at a canal - side press conference last week, saying the slashed funding would send New York «back to the bad old days of choking smog and rampant pollution.»

U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists grew weeds in three sites: an organic farm in western Maryland, a park in a suburb of Baltimore, and in downtown Baltimore, which is choked with smog and about 3 to 4 degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside because of the urban heat island effect.

As a result the air gets worse, whether you're talking about choking smog, insidious soot or, yes, climate change.

Chinese authorities have told pilots who fly to Beijing they must be qualified to land their aircraft in the low visibility bought about by smog, state media said on Thursday, as the government tries to reduce flight delays due to pollution.

The finding, published in today's Nature, could solve a long - standing mystery about what triggers smog formation, but it probably won't make the air above Los Angeles any cleaner.

Smog - causing nitrogen oxides from the Los Angeles port's ships declined 30 percent between 2005 and 2011, while particulate matter decreased about 70 percent.

The environment has emerged as one of Beijing's key priorities amid growing public disquiet about urban smog, dwindling and polluted water supplies and the widespread industrial contamination of farmland.

But with its capital often choked by smog and its people angry about the environmental degradation that rapid development has wrought across the country, Beijing has become a strong proponent of efforts to halt global warming.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

6) Heavenly Heat Saunas: www.heavenlyheatsaunas.com 7) Dietrich Klinghardt talking about «EMF Smog» and mold illness in a Mercola Interview: www.youtube.com 8) Dr Klinghardt Presentation on HPU / KPU.

Resurrecting a screenplay originally co-written with Anthony Bagarozzi in 2001, The Nice Guys serves up a typically brash fantasy about two mismatched misfits — one thuggish, one doleful — swirling around in what Black calls the «horrible combination of smog and porn» of 1977 Los Angeles.

Fast describes it as «an elliptical thriller about a person whose past catches up with him when he's most vulnerable»... Shane Black has teamed up with Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling for The Nice Guys, in which a pair of private eyes investigates the suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy «bizarrely rooted in smog and the U.S. auto industry.»

«When we were thinking about making [Smog Game], Liam and I spoke about this quite a while ago and then the STEM challenge came up.

@DavidXu: I don't know about your Merc, but when folks do the smog pump delete on the M5 they take it all out.

The redesigned label provides expanded information to American consumers about new vehicle fuel economy and fuel consumption, greenhouse gas and smog - forming emissions, and projected fuel costs and savings, and also includes a smartphone interactive code that permits direct access to additional web resources.

It's one of the first luxury vehicles to achieve this strict standard, producing about 90 percent fewer smog - forming emissions than typical new vehicles.

After running into technical glitches, though, Honda has stopped talking about its «smog - eating» engine.

Opening Night is May 18th Time: 7 - 11 pm featuring dance performance in the streets by Brontez Purnell & Amara Tabor Smith Performances by LoveWarz and Sean O'Dell Music by Strawberry Smog + Moira Scar Free Cafe, Public Art and more... About the Show: The Luggage Store Gallery presents Streetopia, a large - scale group exhibition to take place in venues throughout downtown San Francisco this coming May 18 through June 23.

What's not to love about a structure that eats smog?

I've heard lately about rich snobs complaining about windfarms out on their horizon that mess up their photogenic view; these elitists really oughta see a mountain - destroying mine or smog - belching coal plant and then shut the heck up about windmills.

Is there any convincing evidence or analysis you see that says this is in any way about climate, particular, as distinct from the noted issues with mercury in rice and high smog levels and the like?

[UPDATE, 8/7: Heat and humidity turned Beijing's smog into pewter soup, but Juliet Macur reports on our Rings Blog that International Olympic Committee officials had nothing but nice things to say about the air.

One redeeming article was about the Richmond, Virginia plant that put in extensive pollution controls and cleared the air that had been causing a smog over Richmond.

Photo: Public domainOther Truck Fleets, Pay AttentionDid you know that replacing a pre-1994 diesel truck (or at least the engine) with a 2004 - 2006 model could cut soot pollution by about 2/3, and reduce smog - forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions by

A final point is also crucial — about how the coal shift, while largely driven by domestic smog and productivity concerns, could put China in a strong position going into the next rounds of talks aimed at crafting a new climate treaty:

As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: «With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas,» or, «They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.»

In 2009, when the E.P.A. first exerted its authority to rein in carbon dioxide, I wrote a post that in part looked back at Scalia's skepticism about this gas fitting under a statute created to cut eye - stinging, lung - searing smog.

Re # 36 about sulfuric acid, smog doesn't seem to disperse much out over the ocean.

First, I simply can not believe with what the entire world knows about China, Beijing, and its smog and air quality problems, some Olympics committee was thoughtless enough to vote a major global athletic event, which involves breathing, to be held in such a polluted, hazardous and toxic environment.

When I wrote recently about David Cameron's views on London's «naturally occurring smog», I included a video about the Metrocab — a range - extended electric vehicle that's joining London's fleet of iconic black cabs.

The Donora Killer Smog It's about a small museum, operating out of a former Chinese restaurant (don't know if that was intentional or if it was just the space available...) in Donora, Pennsylvania, which comemorates and documents events which took place at the end of October, 1948.

So to say that if smog problems were cleared up and if fuel efficiency increased by 50 % (just saw some stuff about Water4Gas for instance), how this would affect the world climate is the big question.

While complaints about air quality in the Los Angeles Basin date back centuries, research established more than 50 years ago that vehicle emissions were the primary cause of photochemical smog.

I'm not saying either of you is right or wrong about sulphate levels in the smog; just that if LA used low sulphur petrol back then they might be lower than you'd expect.

... The Truth About Coal, China, and Smog... Environmental extremists, especially those wedded to the CO2 hypothesis for global warming, have repeatedly reported on China's smog and how coal - fired power plants were to blSmog... Environmental extremists, especially those wedded to the CO2 hypothesis for global warming, have repeatedly reported on China's smog and how coal - fired power plants were to blsmog and how coal - fired power plants were to blame.

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To know for sure either way about whether or not LA's smog included high levels of suphates, you'd first have to know the typical sulphur levels in Southern Californian octane in the mid-1970s.

If an elected official would request a copy of the Sierra Research SR 2007-04-01 report and all communication about the report from CCEEB, CED, CARB, DCA / BAR, IMRC, Parsons, SGS Testcom, ESP & Sierra Research it might help improve performance of Smog Check....