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Linkish


Gotta love LA

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Newark only 21st? There's no justice. Newark can't even win at sucking.

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fantastic, ive lived in 3 of the top five

i'll start calling my smoker's cough my smog cough instead.

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#34! That means I'm safe, right?

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MN doesn't have any entries in the Top 50 at least. Maybe that will help me recover from Texas air.

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I'm surprised Baton Rouge, LA isn't on there.

Amen.

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fantastic, ive lived in 3 of the top five

i'll start calling my smoker's cough my smog cough instead.

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I'm surprised Baton Rouge, LA isn't on there.

Amen.

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http://www.scorecard.org/

100 most polluted communities in the US.

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nothin in the upper midwest on that entire list. damn skippy, that.

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Utah.

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22,993 people in GAGE County face a cancer risk more than 100 times the goal set by the Clean Air Act.

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That's crap. Its the number of smoggy days times the number of children. Someone think of the children!

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http://www.scorecard.org/

100 most polluted communities in the US.

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100 most polluted communities in the US.

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Teller county Colorado is on there, but that's the old mining district, so I'm not suprised, cyanide from gold processing, heavy metals from mining, yeah.

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But Bondo, it's all ground pollution now. The air is clean. Just don't go outside or drink any water and you'll be okay.

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I worry for edle: 16 of 20 most polluted cities are in China.

from a different site:

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_A new survey by William M. Mercer has identified that Canada and the US
_have the cleanest two cities in the world. Calgary scores highest with an
_environmental rating of 166, followed by Honolulu, which scores 161.5. The
_Finnish capital Helsinki and Katsuyama in Japan share joint third place with a
_score of 158. Two other North American cities, Ottawa and Minneapolis,
_share joint fifth place in the list with a rating of 154._

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nothin in the upper midwest on that entire list.

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From the Guinness link above:

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Most Lethal Smog
Between 3,500 and 4,000 people, mainly the elderly and children, died in just six days from acute bronchitis caused by thick smog which choked London, England, for six days from December 4, 1952. Countless others died in the weeks and months that followed, and a number of deaths were also reportedly caused by people, unable to see their feet, stumbing into the River Thames and drowning.
Smog is a mixture of normal fog and smoke particles, and the Great Smog of London was caused by mankind’s misuse of fossil fuels. Londoners had been burning coal in their homes and industries for years, and the smog had become a way of life.

This worst ever of London Smogs began on 4 December, when a large high-pressure weather system formed over London. This formed what is known as a weather inversion, where a layer of cold air becomes trapped near the ground, allowing the pollution to build up in the calm conditions.

By Sunday 7 December, the visibility in the streets of London was down to just 30 cm (1 ft), and movie houses closed because it was impossible to see the screens through the filth.

The 3,500–4,000 deaths finally forced Londoners to switch to less-polluting natural gas fuels.

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Two other North American cities, Ottawa and Minneapolis, share joint fifth place in the list with a rating of 154

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