Atmospheric

The Next Pollution Target Is Your Dryer Lint- Fabric Softener To The Rescue?

A new study says that drying a load of laundry in a machine releases "microfibers" into the air but chemicals made by a $76 billion company will save us. Microfibers? Is that a thing? Sure, we have defined healthy down to such an extent that no o ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 8 2022 - 9:26am

If Droughts Are Predictable Because They Self-Propagate, Not Planning For Them Is Irresponsible

Everyone knows droughts are bad. They increase risk of wildfires and damage life in the affected region. They are not always predictable, when I lived in Pennsylvania in the early 1990s there was a drought with no known mechanism involved, but they are oft ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 25 2022 - 2:22pm

Innovations In Air Filtration Technology

Increasing ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Jun 20 2022 - 10:10am

Observations From The Past Can Help Inform Climate Changes

Prior to the 1980s, most thermometers were both inaccurate and not placed using scientific methodology. But tree rings need time and ice cores even longer, which means for recent periods of time have to rely on observational claims and hope to control for ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 7 2022 - 1:20pm

Lightning, Not Utilities, Are Major Cause Of California Fires

California is primarily a desert and with no way to generate enough of its own electricity, the state must run power lines from other states through dry areas to keep a growing population in air conditioning. When wildfires occur the state routinely blames ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2022 - 12:04pm

Invisible Air Pollution Can't Cause Obesity, But Epidemiologists Will Link It Anyway

The United States has some of the cleanest air in the world, at least when it comes to actual dangerous smog, PM 10- particulate matter 10 microns in size. It is a clear killer, at one point leading to the deaths of over 10,000 in London during a weather a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 17 2022 - 1:48pm

Short Extreme Rainfall Events Are More Common- Climate Change Implicated

If you have ever visited or Florida or any place with rainfall extremes at sub-hourly timescales- short storms- residents joke that if you don't like their weather, wait five minutes and it will change. A new analysis says those changes may be happeni ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 10 2022 - 8:10pm

Less Air Pollution Has Meant More Fertilizer In Farming

You wouldn't know it from listening to epidemiologists inside EPA or local weather personalities, but American air quality is better than it's been in 150 years. So clean they had to define "clean" down and start touting small micron pa ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 11 2023 - 5:02am

Atmospheric Rivers Are A New Name For Old Events- And They've Long Had Implications For Arctic Ice

In 1994, the term “atmospheric river” appeared in a paper to describe narrow amounts of atmospheric water vapor across the mid-latitudes but now a week doesn't go by without a weather forecaster on the local news claiming it is hitting their viewers. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2023 - 6:31am

Is A Hamburger Really Worse For Pollution Than A Diesel Truck?

In "Science Left Behind", the oft-regurgitated 'it takes a gallon of gas to make a pound of beef' nonsensical metric is revealed for what it always was; a claim put into a book that was derived from an advocacy press release in the 1980 ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2023 - 9:56pm