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Smokes and Heat Trigger Ozone Pollution: France Limits Urban Traffic and Spain only Reports
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Last Tuesday, the air contained smog for the fifth time this summer. The culprit is an excessively high ozone concentration. Since the nineties, the number of summer smog days has fallen sharply. At the same time, the number of sunny days is increasing, which can actually lead to more ozone.
The heat wave experienced these days in Spain has caused, among other serious conditions, the level of tropospheric ozone to increase considerably both in the national territory and in the rest of Europe. To what is it due? Especially to the effect of polluting emissions from road traffic, but also in large part by sea and air transport, as well as by the production of electricity in thermal plants since air conditioning is used more these days …
The French authorities these days restrict the movement of some vehicles in Paris, Lyon and Marseille, and limit the speed on some routes of entry to these cities, in order to combat tropospheric ozone (O3), a contaminant that causes 70,000 premature deaths a year in Europe, according to the European Environment Agency (EAA).With similar data, information messages are only sent in Spain via routes that, in general, do not even reach the populati…
The first wave of summer heat has caused the explosion of tropospheric ozone levels in Spain and Europe, due to the polluting emissions of motorized traffic from major cities and roads, from maritime and air transport and from the production of electricity in thermal plants due to the increased use of air conditioning. In the last week, in Catalonia, Madrid and Seville, among other territories, there have been one hundred exceedances of the hour…
Ground-level ozone affects the respiratory tract and can cause premature mortality in vulnerable people.
The 400,000 most polluting cars were banned from traffic in Paris and 77 surrounding municipalities this week due to the extreme weather, the civil organization reminds.
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