SPRINGTIME FLOWER ANOMOLIES -- PORTLAND, OREGON USA

These copper colored discolored blossoms and flower petals are on the upper parts of the bushes and shrubs, and all subject to vertical deposition of aerosol pollutants or phytotoxic fallouts. This condition is similar to that seen from herbicidal drift, or likely the contents of the ambient air has taken on some phytotoxic characteristics of a herbicide. Moisture may also play a part to form an acidic or harmful solution. Term it: tincture of smog. If you like.

 Flowers stressed & slumping petals look self embalmed in #Portland OR

Photos: (C) 2014 {DT LANGE}

California Air Pollution Animation for May 02,2014.

Originally posted on my DTLANGE2 Wordress blog:

"This EPA Airnow map of California shows polluted air circulating through the Central Valley, then spilling over the Tehachipi Mountains (6 o’clock) and into the Los Angeles basin..."

A frenetic cloud of afternoon traffic dust USA.

Consider what a cloud of traffic-dust-particles looks like.

 

Here's is photograph of roadway dust in Santa Barbara, California. A late afternoon sun setting behind an apartment building illuminated this frenetic cloud.

Keep in mind that traffic dust is composed of a myriad of small, large, and ultrafine shards of particulate matter, most of which is toxic. Benzene, asbestos, diesel soot, heavy metals, tire wear, crankcase and cargo drippings are some of the contaminants that either make up the dust or adhere to dust particles.

From trafficinfratech.comhttp://www.trafficinfratech.com/traffic-dust-particles%E2%80%93as-dangerous-as-vehicular-emissions/

"Particulate Pollutants

... finely divided solids or liquids. Since the larger particles tend to get settled quickly, they are called settleable or Dustfall particles (particles more than 1µ). Smaller particles, on the other hand, remain suspended for longer periods and hence, are called Suspended Particulate Matter (particles less than 1µ). The smallest particles, almost like gasses, are readily transported by wind currents to longer distances without getting deposited anywhere. While dust, smoke and fumes fall under solid particles, mist and spray come under liquid particles. Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM), most abundantly present in the atmosphere, is the cause of major concern for health. The SPMs can enter very deep into the lungs, severely affecting a person’s health. Since they are small in size, they do not settle anywhere and remain in the breathing zone of human beings. The settling velocity of this particle size range is very low and, therefore, the particles, composed of several toxic compounds, remain suspended for long periods. Metallic fumes, droplets of oil, tar and acid, black soot and local oil particles are some of the examples of these particles."

This is a normal and acceptable circumstance but this should not be so.

Trees and leaves in Portland, Oregon USA

Portland, Oregon USA -- the "City of Roses".

Advertized American values.

Roses are but one thing, but it is necessary and proper to view photos of other foliage in order to gauge the botanical realities of this city located in the Pacific Northwest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PHOTOS:  DT LANGE CC 2.0

 

Dirty Air Sun Glare Reflections of Reality Ignored No More

BUT FIRST A HEALTH WARNING -- THE OZONE PYRAMID:

AIR POLLUTION -- AEROSOL PARTICULATE -- THE SUN THAT IS NO LONGER GOLDEN BUT A PASTY WHITE FROM FOSSIL FUEL FILTH IN THE AIR

A QUICK REFERENCE GRAPHIC:

OK, NOW FOR SOME PHOTOS THAT PUBLISHED LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHERS SEEM TO MISS FOR SOME REASON:

 

 

 

 

 

 

An ozone pollution surge in Texas, USA.

PHOTOS:  DT LANGE CC 2.0

Revisiting the Politics of 200,000 Deaths or Smog Kills

200,000 USA Deaths Per Annum in Context

200,000 deaths per year = 16666.666 per month = 547.945 per day = 22.831 per hour.

While President Obama, his cabinet, and Congress plot to punish Syrian President Assad for using aerosol chemical agents to kill innocent Syrians, let’s take a look at American deaths from another gaseous toxic chemical mix we term air pollution.

MIT recently released a study detailing 200,000 yearly air pollution deaths in the United States.

We learn, “The greatest number of emissions-related premature deaths came from road transportation, with 53,000 early deaths per year attributed to exhaust from the tailpipes of cars and trucks.”

Using some government/military jargon, these numbers show common “delivery systems” under the “command and control” of individual Americans.

Another identified “delivery system” of lethal chemical agents is the emissions stacks of coal fired power plants, “Pollution from electricity generation still accounted for 52,000 premature deaths annually.”

If we look closely at the total numbers, we see that 200,000 American deaths per annum equates to, 16666.666 deaths per month, or 547.945 deaths per day, or 22.831 American deaths per hour. (Be sure that many of those victims are children.)

These deaths are from intentionally caused toxic chemicals that are allowed to be put in the communal air.

The nation of Syria is enduring bloody violence and hardship in a multifaceted civil war, and a regime willing to use extreme measures against opponents and innocents.

But America should consider that it has no moral or legal standing to punish another regime for its use of a concentrated and barbaric use of chemical gas weapons when America itself allows the destruction of its own citizens from similar means within its own borders.