The Greater Philadelphia Area
“This is a wake-up call.
On our current path, Pennsylvania will soon be 5.9° F hotter and parts of our coast will be submerged in 2.1 feet of water, according to Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s climate report.
We can reduce the impacts of climate change, but we must act now.” — Governor Tom Wolf
A study entitled Sea level rise and coastal flooding threaten affordable housing highlights the risk to Atlantic City.
In Atlantic City 52% of affordable housing will become uninhabitable due to coastal flooding by 2050.
“The point here is that two neighbors can suffer from the same flood, one living in affordable housing and one in a home they own, and experience a very different outcome,” says Benjamin Strauss, a co-author of the report and CEO and chief scientist at Climate Central. “Many more people in the general population will be affected by sea level rise than the affordable housing population. But the affordable population group is the one likely to hurt the most, who can’t afford to find a remedy on their own, and tend to not have the voice needed to change the allocation of public resources.”
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By Daniel Brouse
Many days in the Philadelphia region are not healthy for breathing. On “Ozone Action Alert Days” you are advised to avoid outside activities. Children should not play outdoors. Avoid running and other fitness activities. Do not breathe in un-conditioned air. Low level ozone is volatile and causes micro-explosions in your lungs that result in chronic respiratory and immune system damage. The more and harder you breathe, the more damage you cause to your body. Avoid exercise.
Pollution is the leading cause of death and illness. Low level (tropospheric) ozone is a major contributor to air pollution diseases.
View the current air quality for Philadelphia.
June 11, 2017 is one of those days:
NOTE: Graphics are from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America)
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Ozone is not only killing humans, it is also killing the trees. The chain reaction is known as an adverse feedback loop.
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