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Originally Posted by MTUpower
Emily Badger - the writer- appears and writes as a biased source. If you read the other works of her you'll find the common theme of "man and his effect on the planet is evil". If you have a strong view then the outcome a investigation usually supports your presupposed view because that is what you are looking for. More enviro-wacko-wingnut; kalifornia style. Nothing is as bad as you fear or as good as you hope.
edit/note- I'm not saying she is inaccurate in this article- but instead to be justly suspect before taking her word as gospel.
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MTU, I expect that most writers at the Atlantic look about the same to you. It's unfortunate that the writer did not include the source, but she did make use of quotes, which I understood to mean that she was reporting on someone else's work, not, "I'm a liberal journalist pretending to do science." Anyhow, looking in the comments after the article, she posted the source material.
'Carmaheaven': Closure of 405 in 2011 improved air quality up to 83 percent / UCLA Newsroom A press release, apparently the actual paper is pending publication. Given that the supposed subject matter is so straightforward, it would be pretty brazen to issue a press release that didn't match the paper's content, which it appears is only the reporting that measurements taken during a rare occasion that cars are not present on the 405, when compared to background measurements appear to support the notion that cars give off lots of pollution, and on days that they are not present, the pollution goes away. This is not a revolutionary idea.
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Originally Posted by Air&Road
In 1979 I was on temporary duty and spent a month at the Buena Park Hotel next to Knot's Berry Farm amusement park near Fullerton. This was Springtime as I recall.
I was on the top floor facing the amusement park and every morning I would get up and open the drapes to a view of the park while I was milling around getting ready for work. I could always see the park with no problem and could see a few miles beyond.
After being there a month or so, the last morning I got up, I opened the drapes and there were MOUNTAINS in the distance. A Santa Anna storm had come through and blown all that crap out for a short time. A MONTH before knowing there were hills over there! Amazing.
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Larry, it is PLAINLY OBVIOUS that you are a LIBERAL operative in cahoots with those GLOBAL WARMING FANATICS and AL GORE. There is NO WAY that a tiny little old bit of pollution can CAUSE A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE. Beside everybody knows that SANTA ANNA died at the ALAMO. Just kidding, I had the same experience in Beijing in 2008, it's a funny feeling to learn that you've been living next to mountains for some time and then one day see them out the window.