Sustained exposure to wildfire smoke reducing life expectancy in parts of California: report...

[Fred Bloggs]

\"Sustained exposure to wildfire smoke is taking a toll on human health in California, where residents of one county are losing an average of two years off their lives due to the air they breathe, a new report has found.\"

That one county is Plumas County, the same neighborhood of Sierra Nevada where at least one person who frequents SED maintains a pied-a-terre.

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4175231-sustained-exposure-to-wildfire-smoke-reducing-life-expectancy-in-parts-of-california-report/

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:47:10 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
<bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Sustained exposure to wildfire smoke is taking a toll on human health in California, where residents of one county are losing an average of two years off their lives due to the air they breathe, a new report has found.\"

That one county is Plumas County, the same neighborhood of Sierra Nevada where at least one person who frequents SED maintains a pied-a-terre.

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4175231-sustained-exposure-to-wildfire-smoke-reducing-life-expectancy-in-parts-of-california-report/

The concepts \"sustained exposure to wildfire smoke\" and \"two years\"
are absurd. That doesn\'t happen.

Time was that people did have sustained exposure to indoor smoke. Many
in the world still do.

We\'ve had smoke in San Francisco and in the Tahoe region, not too
intense, averaging maybe one day per year.

Trees grow and trees burn here. Always have. What\'s new is that we can
hunker down indoors or in cars with filtered air, or wear a mask, or
drive somewhere else.

The cabin filter in my car can catch diesel particulates so probably
does a good job on wood smoke. The heater fans in my houses have
filters.

Get a therapist. It\'s fear that will kill you.

 

[Fred Bloggs]

On Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 12:00:39 PM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:47:10 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Sustained exposure to wildfire smoke is taking a toll on human health in California, where residents of one county are losing an average of two years off their lives due to the air they breathe, a new report has found.\"

That one county is Plumas County, the same neighborhood of Sierra Nevada where at least one person who frequents SED maintains a pied-a-terre.

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4175231-sustained-exposure-to-wildfire-smoke-reducing-life-expectancy-in-parts-of-california-report/
The concepts \"sustained exposure to wildfire smoke\" and \"two years\"
are absurd. That doesn\'t happen.

Time was that people did have sustained exposure to indoor smoke. Many
in the world still do.

We\'ve had smoke in San Francisco and in the Tahoe region, not too
intense, averaging maybe one day per year.

Trees grow and trees burn here. Always have. What\'s new is that we can
hunker down indoors or in cars with filtered air, or wear a mask, or
drive somewhere else.

The cabin filter in my car can catch diesel particulates so probably
does a good job on wood smoke. The heater fans in my houses have
filters.

Get a therapist. It\'s fear that will kill you.

You can\'t smell PM2.5.

One reason for the Sierra Nevada excessive particulate pollution may be the elevation.

PM2.5 is the most dangerous because it enters the blood stream through the lungs. It\'s a bit more than asthma symptoms.

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:07:46 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
<bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 12:00:39?PM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:47:10 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Sustained exposure to wildfire smoke is taking a toll on human health in California, where residents of one county are losing an average of two years off their lives due to the air they breathe, a new report has found.\"

That one county is Plumas County, the same neighborhood of Sierra Nevada where at least one person who frequents SED maintains a pied-a-terre.

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4175231-sustained-exposure-to-wildfire-smoke-reducing-life-expectancy-in-parts-of-california-report/
The concepts \"sustained exposure to wildfire smoke\" and \"two years\"
are absurd. That doesn\'t happen.

Time was that people did have sustained exposure to indoor smoke. Many
in the world still do.

We\'ve had smoke in San Francisco and in the Tahoe region, not too
intense, averaging maybe one day per year.

Trees grow and trees burn here. Always have. What\'s new is that we can
hunker down indoors or in cars with filtered air, or wear a mask, or
drive somewhere else.

The cabin filter in my car can catch diesel particulates so probably
does a good job on wood smoke. The heater fans in my houses have
filters.

Get a therapist. It\'s fear that will kill you.

You can\'t smell PM2.5.

On a good day you can see the Coast Range mountains from the Sierra
peak, about 180 miles away.

You can see the snow on the Sierra crest from the ranger station on Mt
Tamalpias. It\'s usually that clear.

Sorry to rain on all your doom.

One reason for the Sierra Nevada excessive particulate pollution may be the elevation.

PM2.5 is the most dangerous because it enters the blood stream through the lungs. It\'s a bit more than asthma symptoms.

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Wednesday, August 30, 2023 at 6:50:20 AM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:07:46 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, August 29, 2023 at 12:00:39?PM UTC-4, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:47:10 -0700 (PDT), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

\"Sustained exposure to wildfire smoke is taking a toll on human health in California, where residents of one county are losing an average of two years off their lives due to the air they breathe, a new report has found.\"

That one county is Plumas County, the same neighborhood of Sierra Nevada where at least one person who frequents SED maintains a pied-a-terre.

https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/4175231-sustained-exposure-to-wildfire-smoke-reducing-life-expectancy-in-parts-of-california-report/
The concepts \"sustained exposure to wildfire smoke\" and \"two years\"
are absurd. That doesn\'t happen.

Time was that people did have sustained exposure to indoor smoke. Many
in the world still do.

We\'ve had smoke in San Francisco and in the Tahoe region, not too
intense, averaging maybe one day per year.

Trees grow and trees burn here. Always have. What\'s new is that we can
hunker down indoors or in cars with filtered air, or wear a mask, or
drive somewhere else.

The cabin filter in my car can catch diesel particulates so probably
does a good job on wood smoke. The heater fans in my houses have
filters.

Get a therapist. It\'s fear that will kill you.

You can\'t smell PM2.5.
On a good day you can see the Coast Range mountains from the Sierra
peak, about 180 miles away.

You can see the snow on the Sierra crest from the ranger station on Mt Tamalpias. It\'s usually that clear.

\"Usually\" leaves space for you to inhale quite a bit of PM2.5 pollution. The only time I got exposed to asbestos fibres was when I was a graduate student back around 1967. When I was being checked out for my aortic valve replacement in 2010 the surgeons got worried about a shadow on my lung, and sent me off to lung specialist, who put me through an MR-scanner and identified the shadow as scar tissue from that exposure. Happily there wasn\'t much of it, but once it gets in it doesn\'t go away.

> Sorry to rain on all your doom.

Not that you\'ve manage to.

One reason for the Sierra Nevada excessive particulate pollution may be the elevation.

PM2.5 is the most dangerous because it enters the blood stream through the lungs. It\'s a bit more than asthma symptoms.

Quite a bit.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney