Did you know that car temperatures rise at a much faster
rate than the outdoor air temperature?
Not exact matches
«The increased
air pollution that typically accompanies heat waves can especially harm children, who have a higher risk of developing asthma, have lungs that are still developing and growing, and have higher exposure because they breathe at a higher
rate than adults and spend more time
outdoors engaging in vigorous physical activity.»
An additional issue of
outdoor enclosures can also be the aptly - named greenhouse effect, a consequence of not using bonded panels, whereby the
air trapped between the display panel and overlay will under sun exposure heat at a much faster
rate than usual.
The study upends more
than half a century of research that assumed
outdoor air pollution in cities was to blame for higher asthma
rates — a hypothesis repeatedly used by EPA regulators to justify the agency's regulations.
However, the quality of indoor
air is, on average, two to five times worse
than that of
outdoor air, and in fact, the EPA
rates indoor
air pollution as one of the five greatest public health risks.