Comments on: Bottom Up or Top Down? Another Way to Look at an Air Quality Problem http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/07/bottom-up-or-top-down-another-way-to-look-at-an-air-quality-problem/ Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better. Mon, 20 May 2013 11:16:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Olivia Samuels http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/07/bottom-up-or-top-down-another-way-to-look-at-an-air-quality-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-183868 Olivia Samuels Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:12:20 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=23534#comment-183868 Air pollution is definitely a global problem. A 2009 National Research Council reported that it took pollution only 8days to move from Asia to the US.

And climate change will more than likely have an effect on air pollution travel patterns – in this context the concept of “not in my backyard” has no meaning.

In the last 100 years, 75k new chemical substances have been released into the environment, and a toxic load of more than a hundred different foreign chemical substances are commonly found in populations in western societies.

The quantity of toxins we absorb each and every year equates to an adult lifetime intake of over 310kg (or over 680 lb) of artificial chemicals!

The impact on our body’s health and wellbeing are very real and we need to do what we can and lower pollution levels asap and in the meantime protect ourselves as best we can.

]]> By: » Satellites Map Fine Aerosol Pollution Over China adamvoiland.com http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/07/bottom-up-or-top-down-another-way-to-look-at-an-air-quality-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-48060 » Satellites Map Fine Aerosol Pollution Over China adamvoiland.com Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:02:30 +0000 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=23534#comment-48060 [...] in mind, researchers at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and Batelle Memorial Institute have developed maps based on satellite data that depict annual PM2.5 exposure in all of China’s [...]

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