Re: What Happened To Global Warming
Yes it does work in the BASIN, but has a way to go. Stuff just has no where to go, the mountains keep all the heavy particles and ozone right in the San Fernando Valley, I lived there in the 1950s it was worse then. It wasn't just the automobiles though.
The San Fernando Valley is about 260 square miles (670 km2)
[1] bounded by the
Santa Susana Mountains to the northwest, the
Simi Hills to the west, the
Santa Monica Mountains to the south, the
Verdugo Mountains to the east, and the
San Gabriel Mountains to the northeast. The
Sierra Pelona Mountains (to the north) can be seen in parts of the San Fernando Valley from the gap between the Santa Susana and San Gabriel (
Newhall Pass).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley
Other places out there are getting the same high level of particulats and ozone!! Where is the CO2?
The cool breeze from the ocean blows the polution right back into California on a daily basis!!
By Daniel B. Wood | Staff writer/ April 30, 2009 edition
Bakersfield, Calif.
At Uricchio’s Trattoria, a street café on 17th Street, the smell of sizzling garlic wafts into the air tinged lightly with the aroma of … exhaust. And despite the perfect blue sky, the view of the mountains surrounding this Central Valley city is obscured by a ruddy haze.
As Lois and Jill Moreland sip coffee and spear salad greens, they comment on the placement of a national story on smog in the Bakersfield Californian newspaper. “It only made the cover of the B-section,” says Lois.
Bakersfield has moved into first place as the city with the most fine particulate pollution, according to report released Wednesday by the American Lung Association, which annually ranks America’s cities with the unhealthiest air. Last year, the city was third behind Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.
For the third year in a row,
Bakersfield ranks as the nation’s second smoggiest city. It comes in
just behind Los Angeles in the cities most polluted by ozone, the gas that forms a major component of smog.
Local TV has already broadcast the story and national reporters have shown up, but the Moreland sisters seem unfazed. “Smog is a way of life here,” says Jill.
It’s been more than a decade since the first reports about the growing pollution threatening America’s most diverse and productive farm counties here in the Central Valley. The reasons for the pollution are manifold, including dust from tractors and mist from fertilizers and pesticides that grow half the nation’s produce.
But the topography and meteorological conditions make matters worse – and make the problem hard to solve. The city is boxed in on three sides by mountains. Inversion layers – which act like a lid on the air, holding the pollution close to the ground – are present in both winter and summer, and there is little or no wind to take the pollution elsewhere.
Kern County, in which Bakersfield is situated,
and also ranks as the worst county in average annual particulate pollution, has made some efforts to reduce the pollution. [more]
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/04/30/the-worst-air-in-the-us-its-not-in-la/