What is the Number One, absolutely most important thing in your life at this very second? Without it, you will die in a few minutes? It’s the air you breathe, the one fifth of that air, the oxygen you need to keep you alive. This article from March, 2019 is serious. Toxic air is killing more people than smoking. Researchers say 8.8 million early deaths a year around the world.<\/p>\n
<< “When we use clean, renewable energy, we are not just fulfilling the Paris agreement to mitigate the effects of climate change, we could also reduce air pollution-related death rates by up to 55%.\u201d >><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/mar\/12\/air-pollution-deaths-are-double-previous-estimates-finds-research<\/a><\/p>\n CO2 levels in the atmosphere This time last year: 412.40 ppm<\/p>\n 10 years ago: 389.83 ppm<\/p>\n Pre-industrial base: 280<\/em> Weekly averages Scientists have warned for more than a decade that concentrations of more than 450ppm risk triggering extreme weather events and temperature rises as high as 2C, beyond which the effects of global heating are likely to become catastrophic and irreversible. Read more about our weekly carbon count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the Number One, absolutely most important thing in your life at this very second? Without it, you will die in a few minutes? It’s the air you breathe, the one fifth of that air, the oxygen you need to keep you alive. This article from March, 2019 is serious. Toxic air is killing <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[466,250,209,163,1,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-health","category-medicine-and-health","category-politics","category-uncategorized","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13735"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13747,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13735\/revisions\/13747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe largest proportion of early deaths attributed to air pollution are among those who die of heart disease<\/span>.<\/p>\n
\nWeekly averages<\/b>
\n18 Jul 2020: 414.53 ppm<\/p>\n
\nSafe level: 350<\/em><\/p>\n
\n18 Jul 2020: 414.53 ppm
\nThis time last year: 412.40 ppm
\n10 years ago: 389.83 ppm
\nPre-industrial base: 280
\nSafe level: 350
\nAtmospheric CO2 reading from Mauna Loa, Hawaii (part per million). Source: NOAA-ESRL<\/em><\/p>\n