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london just took only 7 days to cross pollution level limits set by EU
"lets stop everything here or else we wont be alive to talk about global warming and pollution in conferences any more"
oxford Street, London’s main shopping street, is notorious for having thehighest recorded levels of NO2 anywhere in the world. (It has probably already exceeded its annual limit as well—in 2015, this took just four days—but measuring equipment has malfunctioned, so this year it’s at least been spared a headline.) In fact, 181-square-miles of Greater London currently exceed yearly NO2 limits, according to a new report, leaving London at an NO2 pollution level similar to that of Beijing or Shanghai.
A report published Monday by the U.K. think tank Policy Exchange has answers—some predictable, some unexpected. First off, it’s fair to note that London has made headway in cutting some emissions. The city’s particulate-matter (PM) pollution has dropped below EU safe levels, and sulfur-dioxide levels have plummeted. With NO2, however, there’s been little or no progress. Culprit number one is the huge uptick in the number of diesel-fueled vehicles on U.K. roads. As the report notes, in 1994 they made up just 7 percent of the entire U.K. fleet. Today, they represent 36 percent.
Ironically, environmental concerns have in part caused this spike. Included in a lower car-tax band, diesel vehicles have been favored by the U.K. government due to their lower CO2 emissions and greater fuel efficiency. This favoritism unfortunately overlooked their considerably higher NO2 and PM emissions. Diesel cars have also lagged behind gas-run cars in emission improvements and, the report states, performed worse on the roads than they have in tests:
The tests are currently performed in laboratory conditions, and it has been argued that they do not adequately represent real-world driving conditions—particularly urban driving conditions. The test cycle is “unrealistic and undemanding,” with cars able to accelerate slowly under relatively low engine loads, and therefore fails to represent real-world driving.
The pollution such vehicles create can be clearly linked to London’s high NO2 level, 45 percent of which comes from vehicles. Gas combustion (separated into domestic and non-domestic categories), non-road mobile machinery, industry, rail, and aviation also play a role, but none of these sectors’ pollution portions exceed 13 percent of the total. If London is going to clean up its air, it’s going to have to push for a root-and-branch low-emissions overhaul of its vehicle fleet.
however extinction of human race have been started we only depend on greenifying techniques to adopted to save the world
london pollution created tremors among the human mind that this is just the begining of effects which humans have done in past.
its our time to feel for our mistakes and its our time to lead and change the world
adopt the greenifying techniques and lets save our world.
oxford Street, London’s main shopping street, is notorious for having thehighest recorded levels of NO2 anywhere in the world. (It has probably already exceeded its annual limit as well—in 2015, this took just four days—but measuring equipment has malfunctioned, so this year it’s at least been spared a headline.) In fact, 181-square-miles of Greater London currently exceed yearly NO2 limits, according to a new report, leaving London at an NO2 pollution level similar to that of Beijing or Shanghai.
A report published Monday by the U.K. think tank Policy Exchange has answers—some predictable, some unexpected. First off, it’s fair to note that London has made headway in cutting some emissions. The city’s particulate-matter (PM) pollution has dropped below EU safe levels, and sulfur-dioxide levels have plummeted. With NO2, however, there’s been little or no progress. Culprit number one is the huge uptick in the number of diesel-fueled vehicles on U.K. roads. As the report notes, in 1994 they made up just 7 percent of the entire U.K. fleet. Today, they represent 36 percent.
Ironically, environmental concerns have in part caused this spike. Included in a lower car-tax band, diesel vehicles have been favored by the U.K. government due to their lower CO2 emissions and greater fuel efficiency. This favoritism unfortunately overlooked their considerably higher NO2 and PM emissions. Diesel cars have also lagged behind gas-run cars in emission improvements and, the report states, performed worse on the roads than they have in tests:
The tests are currently performed in laboratory conditions, and it has been argued that they do not adequately represent real-world driving conditions—particularly urban driving conditions. The test cycle is “unrealistic and undemanding,” with cars able to accelerate slowly under relatively low engine loads, and therefore fails to represent real-world driving.
The pollution such vehicles create can be clearly linked to London’s high NO2 level, 45 percent of which comes from vehicles. Gas combustion (separated into domestic and non-domestic categories), non-road mobile machinery, industry, rail, and aviation also play a role, but none of these sectors’ pollution portions exceed 13 percent of the total. If London is going to clean up its air, it’s going to have to push for a root-and-branch low-emissions overhaul of its vehicle fleet.
however extinction of human race have been started we only depend on greenifying techniques to adopted to save the world
london pollution created tremors among the human mind that this is just the begining of effects which humans have done in past.
its our time to feel for our mistakes and its our time to lead and change the world
adopt the greenifying techniques and lets save our world.
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