The Urban CO2 Dome and Public Health
Education, Energy, Environment, Equity, Global Warming, Public Health, Sustainability, Urbanism
From Nancy Anderson’s Torchlight Column over at the Sallan Foundation.
A new scientific study suggests that location matters when it comes to carbon dioxide emissions.i While it’s been known for a decade that CO2 “domes” can form over cities, a Stanford scientist now reports that such domes increase the respiratory health impact of other air pollutants like ozone. Could this be a case of science having an impact on the public in real time? Here’s why I ask.
By now, it’s impossible to deny that, unlike passions mobilized around other types of pollution or facility siting with all the anthropological overtones of defilement and threats to health which register at a personal level, climate change has remained just an intellectual threat for the public. However, if the public health consequences of this CO2 dome research pan out, the threat becomes personal, visceral if you will.
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