Citing 'air quality issues', Bergen municipality is 'recommending' all public employees to 'work from home': the WHO's wet dream of One Health™ coming true before our eyes
Covid ended all trust of Gov’t for me, not that I had a lot. I worked for the G for many years, so knew how unreliable and stupid the leadership was. Sometimes it was truly amazing to behold.
Of course this is a distraction from the problem that global surface warming will hit 2.0 degrees C in 2030s, not mid century: https://substack.com/home/post/p-187095366
I notice a complete lack of any kind of reference to what particles in what amounts per volume of air.
My thinking is, this follows the same stupidity as the EU's and Sweden's rules for Radon in drinking water: from wells the maximum recommended is 100Bq/L and at 1 000Bq/L the water is deemed unusable for drinking. However, for bottled water, 1 000Bq/L is under the limit.
Make it make sense.
Ever since Tjernobyl we've had a Radon-scare going on with people buying exxpensive de-Radon treatments for their houses out of sheer fear. Me, I've said since then:
"So, open a couple of windows and air out the basement a couple of times per week, problem solved"
To the great horror of others. Apparently, a normal draft isn't enough to move the air. It must be the special fan used by the special man in the special suit. Same with water. The lake water here is so clean there are sweet-water snails living in it: they were almost extinct in the 1980s due to pollution from car exhausts (leaded petrol creating sulphur trioxide which became sulphuric acid when it came into contact with moisture/water).
Which brings me to Bergen. Bergen in the 1980s did not have these problems. Perchance it might be profitable to delve into regulations on air quality from back then, when there was actual poison being emitted at face-height from traffic?
A half-forgotten UN convention can be dusted down to mitigate tensions over modifications of climate and weather. While climate change has been dominating the international agenda in recent years, efforts to influence the weather and reflect solar heat have received less scrutiny despite their potential to increase regional tensions.
Countries are increasingly using technology to change conditions in the atmosphere, oceans and ice to improve weather to their advantage or lessen global warming. However, the results of these interventions can cross borders and what may be good for one country may not be good for its neighbours.
While I don't know, some of the roads look like they do this so they can scrape off some of the super-hard ice (because, esp. outside the cities, salting is not very common).
Auto tyre ablation is a huge issue, esp. now with so many heavy EVs, but I'd think the main reason for these recommendations™ are a) it's cheap political change (as in nudging) and b) the air quality thresholds were changed (lowered) in 2023, as I'll explain in tomorrow's posting.
Covid ended all trust of Gov’t for me, not that I had a lot. I worked for the G for many years, so knew how unreliable and stupid the leadership was. Sometimes it was truly amazing to behold.
Same same (that is, whatever trust I had before Covid).
I do work in academia, and gov't is a sight to behold in real terms, as well as the trusting cacophony of cheers from my colleagues.
Of course this is a distraction from the problem that global surface warming will hit 2.0 degrees C in 2030s, not mid century: https://substack.com/home/post/p-187095366
I notice a complete lack of any kind of reference to what particles in what amounts per volume of air.
My thinking is, this follows the same stupidity as the EU's and Sweden's rules for Radon in drinking water: from wells the maximum recommended is 100Bq/L and at 1 000Bq/L the water is deemed unusable for drinking. However, for bottled water, 1 000Bq/L is under the limit.
Make it make sense.
Ever since Tjernobyl we've had a Radon-scare going on with people buying exxpensive de-Radon treatments for their houses out of sheer fear. Me, I've said since then:
"So, open a couple of windows and air out the basement a couple of times per week, problem solved"
To the great horror of others. Apparently, a normal draft isn't enough to move the air. It must be the special fan used by the special man in the special suit. Same with water. The lake water here is so clean there are sweet-water snails living in it: they were almost extinct in the 1980s due to pollution from car exhausts (leaded petrol creating sulphur trioxide which became sulphuric acid when it came into contact with moisture/water).
Which brings me to Bergen. Bergen in the 1980s did not have these problems. Perchance it might be profitable to delve into regulations on air quality from back then, when there was actual poison being emitted at face-height from traffic?
Wait for tomorrow's posting, it's even more hare-brainiac absurdity than you might imagine.
Then again, you're a long-time reader and discussant here, so it may not surprise you at all.
Slightly off topic but relevant to the atmospheric arguments.
Weather Manipulation – Censored Facts and Unappreciated Questions
Motivated by my personal experience
https://siguna.substack.com/p/weather-manipulation-censored-facts
Geoengineering: Reining in the weather warriors
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2022/02/geoengineering-reining-weather-warriors
A half-forgotten UN convention can be dusted down to mitigate tensions over modifications of climate and weather. While climate change has been dominating the international agenda in recent years, efforts to influence the weather and reflect solar heat have received less scrutiny despite their potential to increase regional tensions.
Countries are increasingly using technology to change conditions in the atmosphere, oceans and ice to improve weather to their advantage or lessen global warming. However, the results of these interventions can cross borders and what may be good for one country may not be good for its neighbours.
Thanks for this!
While I've written about this issue before, I'll have something of an update about this before too long:
https://fackel.substack.com/p/chemtrails-stratospheric-aerosol
Q. Do they do diamod saw grooving of concrete pavement? It's considered as a safety measure here but no reviews of air quality impacts from l
auto tire ablation.
While I don't know, some of the roads look like they do this so they can scrape off some of the super-hard ice (because, esp. outside the cities, salting is not very common).
Auto tyre ablation is a huge issue, esp. now with so many heavy EVs, but I'd think the main reason for these recommendations™ are a) it's cheap political change (as in nudging) and b) the air quality thresholds were changed (lowered) in 2023, as I'll explain in tomorrow's posting.
Local and social as a better solution to how policy is made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZINXPXVrDY