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    Study Shows Ethanol Produces Worse 'Global Warming' Pollution Than Gasoline

    http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepa...oline-n1826957

    Ethanol is also bad for your car's engine. We need to get rid of this crap.

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    Granny says, "Dat's right - Chinese people gettin' fed up with air pollution...

    China police seal off city center after smog protesters put masks on statues
    Tue, Dec 13, 2016 - An environmental protest in China at the weekend was aggressively put down, with a heavy police presence continuing for days to prevent further demonstrations in an unusually heavy-handed response.
    The protests started after Chengdu was shrouded in thick smog, with some residents placing pollution masks on statues. An unknown number of people were taken away by police, with security forces in riot gear seen in the city’s downtown shopping area. Toxic clouds of smog are regular features of China’s major cities, with some studies showing pollution has caused about 1 million premature deaths a year. Chinese leaders have declared a “war on pollution,” but many state-owned companies are leaders in smog-producing industries such as steel, coal and power. Authorities have been worried for years that the deadly air could spark protest.

    A film last year focusing on the country’s pollution and its effect on humans was quickly censored after being watched hundreds of millions of times online. Tianfu Square, in the heart of the city, was still closed yesterday, with police cars parked in the middle and officers at the edges preventing people from entering. Police ordered copy shops to record details of anyone seeking to photocopy flyers complaining about the smog. Anyone placing large orders of face masks should also be reported, the notice said.

    Police rarely allow protests in China, but small-scale demonstrations are usually dispersed quickly and without mass detentions. The response in Chengdu was severe given the size, although exact numbers for the protest are unknown. Some residents reported being stopped and questioned by police simply for wearing pollution masks in the same neighborhood as the demonstration, according to social media posts, with at least a dozen being detained. People quickly took to social media, calling for more action and posting photographs of themselves with signs saying “let me breathe.” “We won’t put up with this. Take to the streets. We are all guilty of producing a world like this.” wrote one commenter, according to Radio Free Asia.

    Police detained one man for sharing photographs that were purported to show a huge crowd protesting the smog, but was actually taken in 2012. Chengdu, the capital of southwestern Sichuan Province, lacks many of the heavy industries that cause the capital Beijing to issues “red alerts” for pollution. However, the air is far from safe. Levels of PM2.5, fine particulate matter that penetrates deep into the lungs, was more than six times the WHO recommended yearly average in the first half of this year, according to data compiled by Greenpeace.

    http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worl.../13/2003661131

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    Pollution is everywhere, including the deepest parts of the oceans...

    Toxic, Man-made Pollutants Found in Deepest Oceans
    February 13, 2017 - No place is safe from pollution, including the deepest parts of the oceans.
    Writing in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers from Newcastle University in the United Kingdom say small creatures called amphipods that live in the Mariana and Kermadec trenches, both of which are more than 10 kilometers deep, have “extremely high levels” of man-made toxic chemicals in their fatty tissues. The chemicals, called Persistent Organic Pollutants, include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). PCBs were produced from the 1930s through the 1970s when they were outlawed. But researchers estimate 1.3 million tonnes of PCBs were produced worldwide.


    Hirondellea gigas are voracious scavengers that consume anything that comes down from the surface.

    They entered the environment through “industrial accidents and discharges and leakage from landfills.” Furthermore, they are “invulnerable to natural degradation” so can last for decades. “We still think of the deep ocean as being this remote and pristine realm, safe from human impact, but our research shows that, sadly, this could not be further from the truth, said lead researcher, Alan Jamieson. “In fact, the amphipods we sampled contained levels of contamination similar to that found in Japan's Suruga Bay, one of the most polluted industrial zones of the northwest Pacific.” To reach their conclusions, researchers used deep-sea landers to bring organism samples up from the trenches, which are 7,000 kilometers apart.

    The pollutants, according to Jamieson, likely sank to the bottom of the ocean through contaminated plastic garbage as well as dead animals that drifted to the bottom and were eaten by the amphipods. Amphipods with toxic chemicals are then eaten by bigger organisms as the pollutants make their way back into the food chain. “The fact that we found such extraordinary levels of these pollutants in one of the most remote and inaccessible habitats on earth really brings home the long term, devastating impact that mankind is having on the planet,” said Dr Jamieson. “It’s not a great legacy that we’re leaving behind.”

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    International trade is shifting some of the harmful pollution effects...

    High Consumption, Trade Shift Harmful Effects of Pollution
    April 11, 2017 — Industrial air pollution causes nearly 3.5 million deaths a year, and international trade is shifting some of the harmful effects from consuming nations to producing nations, according to a study in the journal Nature.
    The authors say high consumption in the United States and Western Europe harms health in manufacturing countries such as China, and the pattern is continuing among developing nations in Asia. “Take an example of a toy,” says Steve Davis, an Earth system scientist with the University of California, Irvine, and one of the report’s authors. He explains that toys sold in America are most often made in China, displacing the emissions that would otherwise be released in the United States. “We’re effectively outsourcing the pollution that comes from the manufacture of that product,” he said.

    750,000 premature deaths

    Worldwide, the scientists estimate air pollution produced by exported goods and services caused more than 750,000 premature deaths in the baseline year of the study, 2007. The report by Davis and his colleagues at Beijing’s Tsinghua University and other institutions found the cross-border effects of trade-related pollution is greater than the cross-boundary impact of industrial pollution caused by weather patterns. Particulate matter from China was linked to 65,000 premature deaths outside of China, largely in Japan and the Korean peninsula, and including 3,100 deaths in the United States and Western Europe. But U.S. and European consumption of goods produced in China was linked to nearly 110,000 premature deaths in China.


    People wearing masks dance at a square in heavy smog during a polluted day in Fuyang, Anhui province, China

    The researchers say that as China becomes a consuming society, its manufacturing is shifting, but the pattern is similar, as production and pollution are “outsourced by China into other up-and-coming industrialized countries like Cambodia, Vietnam, India,” said Davis. Those countries are bearing the health costs. The study examined 13 regions of the world and Davis said researchers were surprised levels of harm from emissions that were displaced from one country to another by outsourcing.

    Trump order criticized

    Davis notes that China’s industrial cities are plagued with pollution, and the country is working to clean up its air. Yet as China expands its use of “scrubbers” that remove fine particulate matter from industrial emissions, environmentalist are accusing President Donald Trump of reversing the U.S. commitment to clean air. On March 28, Trump signed a sweeping executive order to increase America’s energy independence and boost American jobs by reducing the federal government’s role in controlling emissions.

    “There’s a concern that in the pursuit of economic gains, we’re maybe willing to now sacrifice our environmental quality,” Davis said, noting the United States has long “pointed a finger at China” for its emissions. The study’s authors say environmental pollution caused by manufacturing, and by worldwide trade, requires a global response that balances the need for clean air and economic growth.

    http://www.voanews.com/a/pollution-t...y/3804203.html

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