Svåra luftföroreningar drabbar nu USA:s västkust, de orsakar hälsoproblem för många. Covid-19 patienter kan bli sjukare. Dessutom innehåller röken gifter från byggnader, som plast och asbest.
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West Coast Wildfires Spark Headaches and Hospital Visits
Millions of Americans are struggling with some of the world’s worst air pollution as the wildfires rage on.
Hospitals in hard-hit Oregon report a 10% increase in emergency room visits for breathing problems. Doctors are being inundated with calls from worried patients.
“It’s really putting a burden on our asthmatic patients,” said Dr. Paul Williams, an allergy and immunology specialist in Everett, Washington. “They’re calling us more often and they’re requiring additional medications.”
Air pollution, in the case of wildfire measured by the amount of fine particulate matter swirling in the air, is considered a serious health hazard linked to diseases including asthma, lung cancer, heart disease and early death.
Pollution has hit historic levels in five Oregon cities - Portland, Eugene, Bend, Medford and Klamath Falls, the state said Tuesday.
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Wildfire smoke mostly carries particulates from burning trees and plants, which are already harmful.
But smoke from devastated communities can also contain toxic chemicals from burned plastic and other manmade materials in cars and buildings such as asbestos, synthetic rubber compounds and heavy metals. These can then pollute not only air but nearby waterways or soils.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/west-coast-wildfires-spark-headaches-and-hospital-visits_n_5f61fb2fc5b65fd7b8576cfc
Trump fortsätter att förneka vetenskapen -han vet tydligen bättre. Vilket tydligt visar hans makalösa inkompetens. Hans okunskap och arrogans har ställt till med mycket skada. Trump har saboterat det globala samarbetet för att rädda klimatet. På det sättet bär han ett stort ansvar för miljoner människor runtom i världen drabbats av förvärrade extrema väder. Som en ödets ironi är nu USA självt drabbat av historiska bränder och så många stormar och orkaner att alfabetet inte räcker till.
Historien kommer att döma Trump mycket hårt.
Men då är det ju för sent. Trump är farlig ledare. Det är nu man måste stoppa sådana som Trump. Varför protesterar inte världens ledare och media mer? Är de rädda för Trumps flitigt använda vapen – sanktioner?
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Coronavirus to Wildfires: 4 Times Donald Trump Got Science Wrong This Week
The last two weeks have been quite eventful for US President Donald Trump. For one, he was nominated for two Nobel Peace Prizes (Peak 2020, right?). On the other hand, this week Trump has found himself on the receiving end of criticism and disdain following a series of unscientific and false claims - on wildfires, on elections, on coronavirus and on climate change.
Again and again, Trump has proved that he has no idea how science works. Remember when he recommended drinking disinfectant to keep the novel coronavirus at bay?
Now here's the thing - when the president of the United States makes such false claims on a public platform, with over a billion people listening to him, the repercussions can be serious. For instance, in the initial phases of the pandemic, Trump had seriously downplayed the importance of masks.
Following his footsteps, millions of Trump supporters stormed the streets in anti-mask rallies - with no social distancing or coronavirus measures in place.
https://in.news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-wildfires-4-times-donald-063700542.html
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Climate change: By saying science doesn’t know, Trump adds to his expanding volume of signs of ineptitude
Science may not have all the answers, but what it does know is built on epistemological rigour. Try telling Donald Trump that. Questioned by California officials on the climate-change links of the record-breaking wildfires in western US, the president of the US denied climate science, saying “Science doesn’t know”.
‘Science’ doesn’t know, but Trump does—that is the sense he wanted to give
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Trump’s flippant dismissal could have been laughed off as a joke or forgiven as ignorance, but it is tragic and dangerous given he leads the nation that is the worst historical polluter and among the worst present polluters (absolute and per capita).
https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/climate-change-by-saying-science-doesnt-know-trump-adds-to-his-expanding-volume-of-signs-of-ineptitu de/2084964/