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bookmark_borderRising Sea Level and Atlantic City

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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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bookmark_borderOzone Alert 2018

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Ozone air quality alerts plague the Philadelphia Region. One of the leading causes of bad air quality is Ground Level Ozone.

Low level ozone (tropospheric ozone) is highly volatile and is created in large part due to vehicle emissions. “Ground level ozone is a serious problem in cities with lots of traffic, such as Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Houston and New York City. In 2013, according to the American Lung Association, nearly four in 10 people in the United States (38 percent) lived in areas with unhealthful levels of ozone.” The use of ethanol in gasoline is causing a dramatic increase in low level ozone.

The harmful ozone is created when partially combusted fuel reacts with the temperature and ultraviolet light. May 2 is early in the season for an ozone alert.

View the current air quality for Philadelphia.

Ozone Air Quality Alert for Philadelphia Area
Ozone Air Quality Alert for Philadelphia Area

NOTE: Graphics are from the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency of the United States of America)

Asthma is a chronic lung disease that affects an estimated 16.4 million adults and 7.0 million children in the United States, regardless of age, sex, race, or ethnicity.(1) Although the exact cause of asthma is unknown and it cannot be cured, bad air quality is believed to be the main cause. In particular, low level ozone is causing an increase in asthma-like symptoms.(2) What many people believe are food allergies are just symptoms of respiratory and immune system damage caused by ozone.

Death By Ozone | The Ozone Know Zone

Ozone is not only killing humans, it is also killing the trees. The chain reaction is known as an adverse feedback loop.

Dying Trees, The Membrane Domain

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  3. Answers About Ozone and Dying Trees
  4. Ozone Questions Part 4
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bookmark_borderDon’t Take Any Crap From Anybody — John DeBella

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“That brings an end to this edition of The Big Dumb Show. Don’t take any crap from anybody,” says John DeBella everyday when he signs off the morning show on 102.9 WMGK.

Ironically, John DeBella is in trouble for forcing his crap on other people. His former on-air partner, Jen Neill Posner, has filed a sexual harassment suit against DeBella. The lawsuit alleges “egregious, gross, and degrading sex-based harassment.” Posner claims the legendary Philly DJ subjected her to more than a decade of physical and verbal harassment. (1)

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that DeBella “grabbed her breasts on several occasions during her time at WMGK, and repeatedly asked her to perform oral sex on him, among other inappropriate behaviors. Additionally, she says in the suit that DeBella pressed his groin against her multiple times, and once put her hand on his genital area. DeBella also allegedly referred to Neill as “Bitch” in the WMGK office, the lawsuit claims.” (2)

A campaign by listeners has been launched to Boycott: John DeBella Sponsors.

Multiple inquires to WMGK and Beasley Media have gone unanswered as to why they allow the Big Dumb Show to go on.

 

  1. John DeBella Accused of Sexual Harassment by Former WMGK Co-Host, Philadelphia Magazine (2/20/2018)
  2. Lawsuit accuses 102.9 WMGK radio host John DeBella of sexual harassment The Philadelphia Inquirer (February 19, 2018)