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Old 26th Apr 2011, 05:01
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freightdog188
 
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I think it is quite important to raise an awareness of how bad it really is.
For example, today. Almost blue skies and you can see Central from your balcony in DB... Must be a healthy clear air day then, right?
Nope. Far off the mark.
The fine particle pollution is still above the WHO "short time exeedance" 24h limit and approx. 2.5 times the annual limit, above which negative health effects can be expected.
Just to make it more clear what that means
If you were exposed only 24h to pollution levels like today the doctors would consider this a health risk.
If every day of the year was as beautiful as today you would exceed the healthy limits by a factor of 2.5

if that was "obvious" to you then you have done your homework well. Most people haven't ...
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