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According to the Washington Post a recent study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has reviewed the short term impact of 4th of July fireworks on air pollution across the US:
Every July 4, the 14,000-plus dazzling fireworks displays across the nation have a toxic effect on our atmosphere. A new NOAA study shows they temporarily increase particulate pollution by an average of 42 percent.
The first of its kind study, published in the journal Atmospheric Environment, analyzed concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at 315 U.S. air quality monitoring stations between 1999 and 2013.
The original press release from the NOAA links to the report itself.
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NOAA Study on 4th of July Fireworks and Spikes in Air Pollution
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by ikanreed on Wednesday July 01 2015, @06:26PM
Oh, look, an asshole responding to harmless observational comments as if they were an attack on a national holiday. I have some ideas about where you can put those fireworks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:07PM
My kids thank you, your up to $10.
You ever think that maybe it gets old hearing gripes about relatively harmless things like fireworks when you have billion of tons of carbon dumped into the atmosphere just by shipping our manufacturing base overseas. My week of fun with sparklers and smoke bombs and whistlers with my kids is a drop in the ocean. Go bitch about something important.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Wednesday July 01 2015, @07:17PM
Do what you want, any contrary opinions you think I have are a delusion. All I was doing was observing the quality and utility of goddamn catalytic converters, and you're playing the "I'm so oppressed by your unrelated opinions that I really have to be fucking insane to twist into some attack on me" card.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday July 01 2015, @09:26PM
Just make it $1000 -- spend your whole paycheck even.
I used to be a total pyro. In recent years though, I'm just not that interested in summer fireworks because it is so damn hot outside, and I have to close all my windows to keep the smoke out. That makes for one long miserable stuffy night. Plus, it isn't like we have much to celebrate aside from a steady slide into authoritarianism, which I don't actually find celebration-worthy. In my younger years, any excuse to light off fireworks was good enough, but as I turn into a grumpy old man, I just want to be able to leave the windows open all night. Now I find that I still enjoy the ones on New Years ... but there's no personal downside (because it's freezing out and my windows are closed anyway).