Category Archives: World Smog

Who is Responsible for Carbon Neutrality?

Who is Responsible for Carbon Neutrality? I don’t have the answers to this. I just have a lot of questions. Hundreds of firms will at sometime sign up for Carbon neutrality. This may well include all large and important American … Continue reading

Posted in Affairs of State, Air Quality, America's Pledge, CAFE Standards, Clean Energy, Coal, Economies, Energy Efficiency, EPA, Fossil Fuel Energy, Free Trade, Global Climate Action Summit, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Regulations, Smog worldwide, US Steel Imports, World Smog | Leave a comment

Notes on the Global Climate Action Summit, Day 2

Notes on the Global Climate Action Summit, Day 2 The YouTube video is at https://youtu.be/en9cDvXWPtw This is a long set of notes, but the video is seven hours long. High-Level Thematic Dialogues The Ocean-Climate Challenge Julie Packard, Executive Director of … Continue reading

Posted in 2018 Midterm Election, Affairs of State, Air Quality, Al Gore, America's Pledge, Autos, California Smog, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Education, Climate Science, Coal, Coastal Flooding, Donald Trump, Electric Power, Fossil Fuel Energy, Global Climate Action Summit, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydropower, Los Angeles Congested Traffic, Mayor's Climate Action Plan, Ocean Acidification, Paris Climate Agreement, Politics, Renewable Energy, Sea Level Rise, Smog worldwide, Solar Energy, Trump on Climate Change, UC Berkeley, United Nations, US Climate Mayors, Wind Energy, World Smog | Leave a comment

Automotive Safety and the Trump Fuel Standards Rollback

Automobile Safety and the Trump Fuel Standards Rollback The Trump administration and EPA is giving out automobile safety as the reason for not increasing the fuel efficiency standards. They are using a rather specious argument that with better fuel economy, … Continue reading

Posted in Air Quality, Autos, CAFE Standards, California Smog, Donald Trump, Energy Efficiency, EPA, Equivalent Electric Car Emissions, Fossil Fuel Energy, Regulations, Smog worldwide, Transportation, Trump Administration, Trump on Climate Change, World Smog | Leave a comment

Global Health Effects from Particulates and Indoor Air Pollution

In a new report: State of Global Air 2018, a Health Effects Institute Special Report, we have new data on deaths from fine particles, and from indoor fuel burning. Their website is www.stateofglobalair.com The data are from 2016. A comparative … Continue reading

Posted in Air Quality, Health Care, Smog worldwide, World Smog | Leave a comment

Yet Another LA Awards Show: Traffic Congestion in the US and California

Los Angeles has won the INRIX Traffic Scorecard award as the most gridlocked city on the entire planet!  This is given out by the transportation analytics company INRIX, which tracks many drivers.  This is reported on by Katie Pyzyk on … Continue reading

Posted in Air Quality, Autos, California Smog, Equivalent Electric Car Emissions, Los Angeles Congested Traffic, Smog worldwide, World Smog | Leave a comment

Smoggy Areas Around The World

Smoggy Areas Around the World We use the global air quality data of aqicn.org, a Chinese database, to highlight the smoggiest areas or countries around the world.  Our maps are just an arbitrary day during the winter.  The summer probably … Continue reading

Posted in Smog worldwide, World Smog | Leave a comment