Ozone Is Killing North Americans

[maplesyrup]

Science ; Ozone blamed in thousands of deaths annually: study

Finally some concrete data that the scientific community has been warning us about for a long time. We ignore these scientists at our peril.

Thanks oil industy and other major polluters.

[stamps]

.0001151%.... even though it only MAY be a cause it is still very disgusting....

[maplesyrup]

Do you remember when all those seniors died in France a couple of summers ago?

Anyway with all these people dying thanks to our pollution, should we call it assisted-suicide?

Greg....don't hesitate to aid your two cents, FWIW.

[maplesyrup]

Get tough on car emissions, California politician tells Ottawa

The Canadian government asked car manufacturers four years ago to cut emissions by 25 per cent by 2010. Little progress has been made and the manufacturers say the industry will be hurt by the changes.

Dion has demanded car makers come up with a plan within the next few months.

"We don't want to wait forever," said Dion. "Canadians will not understand why the auto industry was able to commit to an agreement in Europe, Japan and Australia, and not in Canada."

Pavley suggested the minister may have to impose regulations if car makers keep dodging the issue. She points out they've opposed air bags and seatbelts in the past.

"We know they can do it and that's what's frustrating. We know the technology is out there."

John Efford, the minister of natural resources, also spoke with Pavley.

"We've set goals and we will meet them in 2010," he promised.

What is Canada waiting for? A monumental crash!

Let's put a government in there that knows what they are doing, and that gives a shit about the lives of ordinary Canadians, as well as people in the rest of the world.

[Pateris]

maplesyrup,

Oil is not the primary polluter... the users of petroleum products are... if you consider CO2 a pollutant (I don't), then the oil industry is a very small percentage of the total CO2 emissions... they shouldn't take the flak for people using their product.

Because the truth is people don't have an alternative.

[caesar]

Number one polluter:

Air polluter. The largest air polluter in Canada is the Ontario Government's Nanticoke coal-fired electricity generating station. The Nanticoke power plant on the shores of Lake Erie released 6,934,136 kg of contaminants to the air, mostly lung-irritating, acid rain-causing gases. Nanticoke released nearly 6.3 million kg of hydrochloric acid; 389,088 kg of hydrogen fluoride, an acid rain-causing, irritating gas declared hazardous by the US EPA; 355,421 kg of sulphuric acid, and 226 kg of the nerve toxin mercury.

Scary stuff eh

[caesar]

For strictly ozone depleting substances

Ozone-depleting polluter. OC Celfortec's plastic foam products facility in Grande-Ile, Quebec, was the largest emitter of substances that destroy the planet's protective ozone layer. The plant emitted 415,120 kg of ozone-depleting substances, including 304,870 kg of HCFC-142b and 110,250 kg of HCFC-22.

Calgary made the list for water polluter.

[maplesyrup]

Age of green cars arrives as Canadians cut emissions

The pledge from Ottawa will add to the pressure on the North American automotive industry to develop vehicles that meet higher emission standards of gases such as methane and carbon dioxide. About a third of the greenhouse gas emissions thought to contribute to global warming in the US come from motor vehicles.

Looks like big shakeups are coming for many industries, not just for automobiles.

[caesar]

This is the ozone problem not global warming. The old air conditioners in cars were a problem and spray cans.

[maplesyrup]

Global warming is suspected to lead to a weakening of the ozone layer. They are related.

[Pateris]

The story maplesyrup posted had NOTHING to do with the ozone layer and nothing to do with global warming or CO2.

It had to do with ground level ozone (a smog component) produced by atmospheric reactions with the products of internal combustion engines. Ozone is highly reactive and therefore causes health problems.

But DON'T CONFUSE the issues... you simply show how uninformed you are.

[maplesyrup]

maplesyrup,

Oil is not the primary polluter... the users of petroleum products are... if you consider CO2 a pollutant (I don't), then the oil industry is a very small percentage of the total CO2 emissions... they shouldn't take the flak for people using their product.

Because the truth is people don't have an alternative.

Pateris.....there are always alternatives.

If we spend the money on research into solar power that we spend on non-renewable resources for example.

[maplesyrup]

The story maplesyrup posted had NOTHING to do with the ozone layer and nothing to do with global warming or CO2.

It had to do with ground level ozone (a smog component) produced by atmospheric reactions with the products of internal combustion engines. Ozone is highly reactive and therefore causes health problems.

But DON'T CONFUSE the issues... you simply show how uninformed you are.

Thanks for the clarification.