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Air Quality & Summer Pollution

5:41 PM Wed, Jun 28, 2006 |

We often times here meteorologists refer to the things like Air Quality Index and Air Quality Alert during the summer time, but what do they mean and how do they effect us? Below is a list of definitions that will help you determine just exactly what the weatherman is talking about.

Air Quality Index - A way to measure the amount of the six major pollutants in the air. These pollutants are particulates, sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), lead (Pb), and ozone (O3). A measurement of 0 to 100 is considered acceptable, but from 100 to 150 is unhealthy for old people, young children, and people with asthma. Above 150 is unhealthy for everyone.

Although any of the above mentioned pollutants can affect our weather, the most common in Kentuckiana are ozone and particulates. Particulates or particulate matter are fine particles of foreign matter that float around in the air we breathe. PM10 describes the fraction of airborne particulate matter that is less than 10 microns in size. Fine particles are of the greatest concern since they are capable of being easily transported over long distances on currents of air. Also, fine particles may be drawn into the respiratory airways where they may adversely affect health. Recently, the attention of scientists has been drawn towards studying the PM2.5 fraction and even smaller particles, which can penetrate the very deepest parts of the lung. PM10 and other particulate matter may vary considerably in chemical and physical composition. The principal sources of these particles are combustion processes, including traffic and industry.

Ground Level Ozone – Sometimes referred to as smog, ground level ozone is formed by a chemical reaction between volatile organic pollutants (VOCs) and oxides of nitrogen (NOx) in the presence of sunlight. Ozone concentrations can reach unhealthy levels when the weather is hot and sunny with little or no wind. Ozone at the ground level causes adverse effects on lung function and other unhealthy respiratory effects. Also known as tropospheric ozone, ground level ozone occurs near the earth's surface in the lowest layer of the atmosphere, also known as the troposphere. In the troposphere, ozone is a natural constituent of the air we breathe. However, at critical increased concentrations, it becomes a harmful pollutant. In natural (unpolluted) conditions, ozone is formed in the troposphere when UV radiation that reaches the Earth’s surface converts nitrogen dioxide to nitric oxide and an oxygen radical. The oxygen radical may subsequently react with diatomic oxygen, 02, to form ozone. Ozone is then broken down when it reacts with nitric oxide, forming diatomic oxygen and nitrogen dioxide.

Air Quality Alert - A message issued by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) through the National Weather Service when the AQI is expected to reach above 100. This message encourages you to prevent air pollution by postponing the use of lawn mowing, motor vehicles, boats, as well as filling their vehicle gas tanks.


Jeremy Kappell
WHAS11 First Alert StormTeam Meteorologist

7/03/05



4 Comments

Virgil Kleinhelter said:

It is great to see that Clark County Council wasn't fooled into passing a Smoking Ban. Anytime the ACS says something about SHS, it's a lie. Bans are not about health, they are about profit for Big-Pharma. Pills and patches are making Billions for Johnson & Johnson and they are only 15% effective. The stop smoking products do more harm than SHS ever will. If you want the truth, you only have to ask. My e-mail is v.kleinhelter@insightbb.com.

Virgil Kleinhelter said:

The research I have been doing since 1998 has shown me the real truth of the myth being spread about Second Hand Smoke worldwide by the Pharmaceuticals. They do this to boost their profits into the Billions through the sale of pills and patches.

I found the largest studies ever done. These studies were completed by the American Cancer society, the World Health Organization, the National Oakridge Labs, one simply called The Enormous German Study and a few others. These were all long term and the largest ever done to date. NONE have been larger or longer in years to complete. None have ever been more complete in their investigation of the supposed problem. The largest percentage started their studies to prove the link of SHS to cancer.

They all agreed in their findings. None found any connection of SHS to cancer. The World Health Organization even stated they also found no connection of SHS to Heart Disease. They also stated there is the possibility that SHS may have the beneficial effect of helping the immune systems of children to develop. Another study found that Children of smokers are 22% less likely to contract cancer later.

I also fond an almost unbelievable co-operation between Government Agencies, Studies by non-profit organizations, scientist of different persuasions, National Media, Doctors and almost everyone of which stands to profit by spreading the misinformation provided by the Big Pharma.

The worst of the myth spreaders are the EPA and the American Cancer Society. The EPA study was no study. They came up with 3,000 deaths a year caused by SHS by computer generated junk science and that so called study has been proved rigged and false. That figure is still being used today, even by our Surgeon General, and the 3,000 figure is still the same. He couldn’t even adlib.

The Surgeon Generals study by press conference ( his study of selected studies) is the product of politically-connected charlatans led by Jonathan M. Samet, who has been the ringleader of every major anti-smoking fraud since the EPA ETS report. Like ALL the anti-smokers' reports, it is founded on the deliberate and systematic use of defective studies to falsely blame passive smoking for diseases caused by INFECTION. It is also the most flagrantly politically corrupt: Fred Malek, who was deputy director of President Nixon's board of directors of the contracting firm which concealed the identities of the anti-smoker authors of the EPA ETS report behind illegal pass-through contracts. The EPA’s own scientists would not stand behind this false study but it is being used by every Health Department here and overseas.

The American Cancer Society is the worst offender of all the NON-Profits. The last figures I have is they have over a Billion dollars in cash and they have over 23 fundraisers a year and poormouth at every one of them. Most of their money goes into six figure incomes and more misinformation. They even get in a huff if there is mention of a cure. Why kill the Goose.
It’s been a long, deliberate process that continues to become evermore sophisticated in its manipulation of the minds of the American public.
One of the principle architects in the takeover of the American mind is a man named Edward Bernays, who is considered the father of the American public relations industry. If his name doesn’t ring a bell, then maybe his Uncle Sigmund Freud’s will.
In 2002, the BBC broadcast a four-part documentary called “The Century of Self,” covering the story of the relationship between Freud and his American nephew, as Bernays learned about the human mind and how to manipulate the masses. Bernays’ goal, from the early part of the 20th Century, was to be able to teach corporations how to make people want things they didn’t need through a variety of manipulative techniques appealing to people’s unconscious fears and desires.
What makes this production interesting is that it covers post-war America and illustrates how politicians and policymakers learned to use Freud’s ideas in their desire to control the masses as well. It shows how Sigmund Freud’s daughter, Anna, and his nephew Bernays, were central players, along with the U.S. Government, corporate America, among others by controlling the masses via engineering consent.

Lasker (a student of Bernay) and his wife, Mary, longtime board members of the American Cancer Society, realized that really big money could be had for research, if only the public could be convinced that tax dollars -- if poured into research year after year -- might lead to cures for all sorts of diseases, particularly cancer.

Over the years, Lasker had developed a number of Madison Avenue propaganda techniques similar to Bernays that he applied to motivate people to generously fund the American Cancer Society (ACS). Lasker’s campaign strategy detail Lasker’s central role in creating the money hungry machine we call the National Institutes of Health, which began when he retired as the richest man in the history of advertising. was based on our fear of death and the hope that with enough money, we could cure cancer. He coached his friend, Elmer Bobst, president of the American branch of Hoffmann-LaRoche and later Warner-Lambert drug company, to start every fundraising speech with the following statement, "One in five of us here - every fifth person in the audience - will die of cancer.” He would then turn the fear he had engendered into hope with his next line, "We want to cure cancer in your lifetime…donate generously.”

If you have been mislead into believing that SHS is killing people you are just part of the millions so don’t feel too bad. Our City Councils have fallen for this overload of junk science by hearing and reading the same lies everyday since Surgeon General Coop had the first cigarette labels warn about cancer.

The Fat Police are coming. Can you even guess how many Billions the Big Pharma will make on diet pills?

I’m up to over 278 studies and reports on the myth of SHS and growing. I know I can’t stop this control of our lives by myself. There are too many people and too much money against me and too many people who won’t believe and won’t take the time to find the truth.

We don’t have an immigration problem either. Do you believe that?

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but not their own facts.

I have all the facts needed to show that this push for smoking bans is about money not health.

v.kleinhelter@insightbb.com

Virgil Kleinhelter said:

Without being exposed to the air pollution a child will never be able to adapt to being exposed. The exposure helps their immune system to develop. Naturally it would be nice to never be exposed but the likely-hood of that is remote. If you have noticed, many diseases are on the rise nation wide. People tend to protect their children in too sterile environment.

Edward Cole said:

Great education for those of us who live with the outdoor allergies described. Even our 2 year old granddaughter must deal with the outside and the consequent trips to the pediatrician.


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