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US To Monitor Air Quality In India and Other Countries
mdsolar writes with news about a U.S. plan to monitor air quality in countries like India and Mongolia to help raise awareness about the dangers of pollution. "The United States says it will expand air-quality monitoring at some overseas diplomatic missions, following several years of reporting pollution data in China. The goal is to increase awareness of the health risks of outdoor air pollution, which easily spreads across borders, Secretary of State John Kerry said in announcing the program on Wednesday. The program is intended to help United States citizens abroad reduce their exposure to pollution and to help other countries develop their own air-quality monitoring through training and exchanges with American experts, he said. "We're hoping that this tool can also expand international cooperation when it comes to curbing air pollution," Mr. Kerry said. The program, run in conjunction with the Environmental Protection Agency, will begin to operate in India in a few months. New Delhi has some of the world's worst air pollution, and residents there are becoming increasingly concerned about the dangers. American diplomatic missions will also monitor air quality in Vietnam, Mongolia and elsewhere, Mr. Kerry said."
There is a long tradition of US diplomats making scientific observations abroad. Franklin discovered the existence of sunrise in Paris, for example: http://www.webexhibits.org/day...
First you deregulate trade, and you use that to pressure your suppliers to have the lowest possible cost. In order to achieve this, the suppliers must crush workers in remote countries and fuck the environment... and suddently you discover that there is only one single ecosystem and that pollution affects you.
It is nice to see a US government that acknowledges there is general interest linked to environment. What will come next? They should push international environmental regulations that trump trade deregulation. I wonder if I will live long enough to see that.
http://www.statisticbrain.com/...
Fuck off...
Marsh was a diplomat who observed deforestation and desertification around the Mediterranean. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
Yes, oxygen is poisonous, and highly corrosive. Save your life, and stop inhaling now!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Yeah, but today it's more like IMSI catchers and other surveillance.
Please do it at home, we don't want your surveillance.
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Wankers who swallow the latest conspiracy theory are the root problem, I wish the UN would do something about them, perhaps spraying them with valium from high altitude would work.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
A lot of that pollution is caused by the way you exploit foreign countries for their slave labor.
Has anyone reinstated the environmental protection laws that G. W. Bush removed?
Not to worry, though.
Soon, USA allies will be able to strike eco terrorist harboring countries with your drones - got to love it.
Everyone who buys Wild Hunt will receive 16 specially prepared DLCs absolutely for free, regardless of platform.
Since the US is the number 2 polluter in the world!
http://www.reuters.com/news/pi...
(probably not the most accurate report but good enough example).
How about monitoring the chemtrails here first?
What do you mean? The government is monitoring them very carefully, since they're the ones paying for the chemicals and loading them in the airplanes. Especially after the travesty of 9/11, where they forgot to take into account the altered burning temperature that results when the chemicals mix with jet fuel when they were doing the calculations for their inside job. But since then, they are saving money by having Monsanto put the chemicals in GMOs. OMG TOXINS!
I admire your valiant effort to come up with an original idea to address this problem.
Actually, Adams complained that Franklin was using too much money on flattery.
The monitoring of pollution levels in places where tracking them might not occur is chicken soup... can't hurt, might help.
There is no appreciable difference to our common planet whether environmental contamination of industry is Indian, Chinese, American, or European.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
We can argue till the sacred cows come how why it is so, or whether it is justified, or whether it hurts or helps USA or India. But ground reality is, USA has no real credibility. If it monitors air quality and announces the results, people would find thousands of hidden agenda and subversion in it.
It is not just India. This old lady in northern Iraq passionately pleads for peace to ISIS militants, (assuming the sub titles are true) tells them their ways are un-Islamic in their face. But thinks America is providing ISIS weapons and money!
I grew up in India and visit it every year. It is very hard to convince even highly educated and informed Indians that "USA is not a monolith. Parts of it are purely profit driven. Parts of it are genuinely altruistic, desiring real democracy and good life for all of the world. No, President Obama is not conspiring with the CEOs of Coca-Cola and Pepsi to drive your hometown soda maker out of business, your rose-flavor-soda is safe from Pepsi. No, the President can not order CEO of Warner Brothers to censor a movie". I am talking about people who have very advanced degrees, worked in Middle East, Africa and far East outside India, people who have visited USA and Europe as tourists and visited friends and relatives there. They just don't believe any part of USA could be altruistic.
All the goodwill earned by all the people doing tremendous charity work, altruistic work, is squandered by a few bad players, mostly corporations corrupting the local politicians for their profit.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
OCO2 is the best means of monitoring CO2. Most importantly, it is capable of showing how CO2 flows in and out of a nation. China and other nations like to hide how much they actually produce. It is long past time for the world to see REAL numbers of what each nation produces so that they will focus on the correct polluters rather than the ones that are already cleaning up.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
good grief.
Look, just because the work goes overseas does NOT mean that the other nation must pollute. It is up to them on how to do things.
India manipulates their money against the dollar and runs it up. They tried moving it to a point where it would be free to move, and software companies threatened to leave because it would be too expensive.
Now, you will note that India did all this by manipulating their money in the first place, and then when they try to back out, the companies will leave.
So, who do you blame? The companies, the employees, or the Indian gov?
Likewise, with China, they not only manipulate, but they also picked coal for their power. Sure they claim that they will pour money into AE, but all it went into was businesses so that they could pump/dump on the west and destroy our industries. IOW, very little went into changing how CHina gets their electricity. In fact, China's % of electricity from coal went from 60% back in the 80s to more than 80% today, and it is still growing.
Now, who is to blame for that? Did businesses choose that? Nope. Chinese gov. did.
The reason why America, in fact the world, is in such chaos, is because of ppl like you. You want to blame America for everything while ignoring real facts. Hell, you scream about CO2 emissions (which you should), but America is less than 15% of total emissions, with the entire west being less than 33%, and China is over 33% all by themselves. And that is just what is reported. When OCO2 comes out with REAL numbers, CHina's % will be found to be over 40% of the world's emissions.
And yet, you will scream about America while pushing to ignore all of the growth.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
really? How did America 'provoke' terrorism?
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.