Air pollution is really bad today in London! 103 AQI at 3:43pm, double of NYC and 30% more than Paris right now.

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1. But but but I thought bringing ulez to Epping Forest and Chessington was the answer to all our pollution problems /s

2. Related: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-06-06-pollution-cars-and-vans-costs-%C2%A36billion-year-health-damages

3. AirVisual is saying dust storm?

4. Seems ironic on the very day that lots of angry suburbians will be voting against Sadiq Kahn because of ULEZ.

   Though they would probably use it as evidence that it doesn’t work….

5. But not as bad as….Chelmsford and Colchester? Who knew?

   And Netherlands is off the charts.

6. I think it’s due to the thunderstorms keeping an inversion and static air. Therefore the pollution doesn’t have anywhere to go.

7. Most cars are manufactured to run most efficiently at 30mph. Dropping them to 20 and still having traffic calming measures will be the bad.

8. a little context around this: on some days, weather will create air pollution (most notably when dust is blown northwards from the sahara).

   When this happens, it doesn’t mean that efforts to reduce human-made air pollution are pointless. In fact, on days like this it’s extra important to reduce human-made air pollution because natural air pollution + human-made pollution combined is much, much worse than natural air pollution alone.