Ozone ~ Environment Clean Generations

Heat increases tropospheric ozone level has heat added to usual traffic in Madrid and a half of the pollution measurement stations in Madrid beyond the level of health protection by ozone. No rain and no wind, but many cars and no political will to reverse the situation. Gallardón Mayor was reelected in office for four years.

That, I hope I’m wrong, mean four more years of increasing pollution in the capital of Spain.

The so-called bad or tropospheric ozone is produced as a result of a photochemical reaction that increases when the nitrogen oxide pollution is high and the solar incidence increases, explained the organization Ecologists in Action.

On Tuesday May 24, 2011, at eleven at night, a total of 16 of the 23 stations of the capital there were over 100 micrograms per cubic meter of nitrogen dioxide (NO2). Weather forecasts predict more heat. Forecasts predict political stagnation.

It is not a new situation, if at all. It occurs every year from April to late August. Ozone production increases and decreases each day as the solar intensity. By becoming more oblique incidence of sunlight on the surface in late August when the summer draws to a close, low ozone production significantly.

In the rest of the Community of Madrid is also the phenomenon. Alcalá stations, Fuenlabrada, Torrejón, Alcorcón, Colmenar Viejo, Majadahonda, Arganda, San Martin de Valdeiglesias Guadalix Algete Orusco Atazar and have reached levels above 120 micrograms per cubic meter. The same has happened at five stations in the capital’s heavy traffic away from downtown: Barajas, Vallecas Eixample, El Pardo, Juan Carlos I and Three Olives.

The current regulations can not overcome those 120 micrograms per cubic meter on average in eight hours and more than 25 days a year. The European Union already has a very serious warning about the Madrid City Council, notice that they seem to have fallen on deaf ears.

The threshold at which authorities are obliged to inform the population, by contrast, stood at 180 per cubic meter micrograms for one hour. This threshold has not been surpassed so far this year and the peaceful citizens breathe polluted air.

One of the electoral promises of the mayor of Madrid has been to give priority to this problem. Hopefully, this time, they deliver what it promises. Meanwhile, it discourages physical activity, the athletic work in the middle of the day.

by "environment clean generations"