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UK's Dust pollution in spring 2014 was caused by farming practices & industry, but not Sahara dust
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...ble-for-uks-worst-pollution-event-in-10-years
For nearly two weeks in March-April 2014 much of Southern England was blanketed with choking smog. It was the UK's worst pollution event in ten years.
The British government claimed that the event was regrettable but natural, blamed it on a dust storm off the Sahara desert.
The convenient thing about big natural events is no one is responsible for them and no one need do anything about them. Indeed, not only did the British government do nothing at the time to address or alleviate the pollution, the ruling conservative party has worked in the years since to actually weaken pollution controls.
But a full analysis of the particulates from 2014 shows that while Sahara dust was present, it was only in a few places at the very end of the event. Most of the choking smog came from ammonia-based fertilizers and industrial and traffic pollution from across Europe.
In other words, the event was almost entirely human-caused, and action to alleviate it was and is urgently needed.
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...ble-for-uks-worst-pollution-event-in-10-years
For nearly two weeks in March-April 2014 much of Southern England was blanketed with choking smog. It was the UK's worst pollution event in ten years.
The British government claimed that the event was regrettable but natural, blamed it on a dust storm off the Sahara desert.
The convenient thing about big natural events is no one is responsible for them and no one need do anything about them. Indeed, not only did the British government do nothing at the time to address or alleviate the pollution, the ruling conservative party has worked in the years since to actually weaken pollution controls.
But a full analysis of the particulates from 2014 shows that while Sahara dust was present, it was only in a few places at the very end of the event. Most of the choking smog came from ammonia-based fertilizers and industrial and traffic pollution from across Europe.
In other words, the event was almost entirely human-caused, and action to alleviate it was and is urgently needed.
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