<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/ala-nho041720.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s linear 0s; display: block; position: relative; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><header style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 18px 0px;" class=""><div class="reltime" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">News Release 21-Apr-2020</font></span></div><h2 class="post_title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Nearly half of US breathing unhealthy air; record-breaking air pollution in nine cities</font></span></h2><span class="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#000000" class="">AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION</font></span></header><div class="entry hidden-xs" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="intro" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(185, 186, 188); padding-left: 10px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of air pollution on lung health is of heightened concern. A new report from the American Lung Association finds nearly half of the nation's population -- 150 million people -- lived with and breathed polluted air, placing their health and lives at risk. The 21st annual 'State of the Air' report finds that climate change continues to make air pollution worse, with </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">many western communities again experiencing record-breaking spikes in particle pollution due to wildfires.</span></font></span></p></div></a><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Full release </span><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/ala-nho041720.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-04/ala-nho041720.php</a></div><div class="">
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-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><div class="iv gt gE" style="padding: 20px 0px 0px; cursor: auto; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;" class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">**************</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Greta Thunberg boils the basics down to just 5 words:</b> “… and it will get worse”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">She knows it will get worse because climate scientists had made the same point; e.g., ….</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Camilo Mora:</b> “ …. our choices for deadly heat are now between more of it or a lot more of it.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233" class="">https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></div></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(49, 68, 93);" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Michael Mann:</b> “</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">“</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">A new normal makes it sound like we have arrived in a new position, and that's where we're going to be. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">But</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> if we continue to burn fossil fuels ... we are going to ... get<b class=""> worse and worse d</b>roughts, and heat waves, and super storms, and floods, <b class="">and wildfires.</b>”</span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how" class="">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><b class="">Kate Marvel:</b> “The whole idea that everything’s going to work out isn’t really helpful because it isn’t going to work out ” said Kate Marvel a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Climate change is going to worsen to a point where millions of lives, homes, and species are put at risk she said. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism" class="">https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism</a></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(4, 51, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class=""><b class="">My own view:</b> <<</span><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it" class="">https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it</a></span><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">>></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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